It's a given that it's instructive to play over one's losses; by pinpointing where you went astray, you can try to avoid such mistakes in the future. It's not well established how instructive it is to play over one's wins, however. Often, it isn't; when your opponent blunders, the only thing you can learn is the most efficient way to win from that point on. You can't learn how to cause your opponent to blunder, because there's no such technique. Playing over one of my wins from Saturday night, I discovered that the instruction lay in what my opponent should have done, and failed to do, when I blundered. It's never very gratifying to discover that the main reason you won was due to deficiencies on the part of your opponent, and not to any particular brilliance on your part :-)
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