Find the brilliant move (!!) #1
What is a brilliant move? I bet nobody can give a good definition of what makes a move a brilliant one, but for middle-rated players like me, it's always a bit of an excitement to see the analysis labelling one of my moves as brilliant. To be perfectly honest, many of my games featuring a so-called brilliant move end badly for me, as there might be some chess karma to compensate or something, but it gives me three minutes of happiness when I get the game report.
Here's the first post of a possible series of blog posts I decided to name "Find the brilliant move (!!)", as it would have been presumptuous to label it "What would Ximoon do?", as even if all the puzzles presented here are extracted from games I played on chess.com, that would imply I knew what I was doing, and let's be honest: most of the time I didn't, and specifically most of those brilliant moves felt like flipping a very dangerous coin. But does anyone really understand chess? Thinking about it, that might be a nice title for a series of puzzles where you'd need to guess my blunders. But another time.
For the first one, we have a position already very much in favor of white, but can it get even better?
Next, black seems to be under attack, how to strike back?
An easy one to follow. Spoiler alert: it's even in the opening library!
Last one for today!
Thanks for reading, more to come!
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