Brilliant Moves, are they really that good?

Brilliant Moves, are they really that good?

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Hello everyone! Today I will be entering a debate: Are brilliant moves really that good? 

                  By Definition, a brilliant move can be one or all of the following:

- A very good move ( even better than the best move type )

- Is hard to get by (even with computers)

- And is one the computer doesn't see at first

So my opinion on it?  lets take a look. in some of the cases here, I think there worth remembering about, but a lot of times chess.com gives way too many brilliant moves and a lot of the time, there easy to find and/or doesn't actually do that much, now I'm not saying every single brilliant move is worthless, I'm just saying, chess.com, if you're looking at this, your bots are a little off by what "brilliant move" means. Okay, okay, no need to protest though, I totally respect how detailed they go with analysis. So let's take a look at this chart.

Yes, it's very good 

-It sometimes truly will be a very good move

-You can be proud that yeah, sometimes GMs won't even recognize it.

No, it's bad 

-Brilliant moves may be good, but not tough to spot or unique

-It can also be easy to see and play, which is probably not the point of "brilliant" moves, I mean they’re called brilliant for a reason.

If you're still not happy, here's something that may be a easy brilliant move:

Now I didn't actually check, but if this was a brilliant move, it wouldn't make sense, because it's just a simple remove the defender tactic, so my opinion, well it depends, if it was something you found after around 5 minutes of thinking, then yes, because it was a hard move, if it was something you found in 30 seconds-1 minute, then no, because it probably pretty easy. Now I'm not saying this is always true, but in most cases, you should have to think pretty hard to find 1 of these.

Hope you enjoyed,

Ryan_426

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