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Chess.com's Post-Game Baloney is Absolutely Stupid
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ThrillerFan wrote:
Why do we even have it?
They sell it
Jan 19, 2026
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#5
A great move is a best move qualified by a certain situation.
A great move is a best move when there are no other good moves.
Great = "there was only one good move and you found it".
Similarly, Brilliant moves are Best moves that involve a tactic that sacrifices a piece.
Jan 19, 2026
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#7
Gambitiodic wrote:
A great move is a best move qualified by a certain situation.
A great move is a best move when there are no other good moves.
Great = "there was only one good move and you found it".
Similarly, Brilliant moves are Best moves that involve a tactic that sacrifices a piece.
Errrmmmm actually brilliant moves don't have to be the best move, just one of the top moves involving a sacrifice
#7 not true it has to be the best
Just play chess and pay less attention to the colourful stuff
ThrillerFan wrote:
Why do we even have it? It is completely ineffective! If such a feature is going to be in there, stop complicating the matter. Not ever move needs a stupid identifier.
How many times did you Blunder?
How many bad moves did you play?
How many times did you play a spectacular move?
1 double-exclam, 2 question marks, 1 double-question mark in 39 moves? Great! Look at the game, see what the key turning points are.
This would be FAR more effective than the useless trash it gives the way it is currently programmed.
Take the last game I played before this post.
1 Great
17 Best
18 Excellent
Now let me ask this question. If it isn't the best move, exactly how great or excellent than it really be?
Now do you see the stupidity in this? It is about as stupid as trying to come up with a fake name on every move of the opening. 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 e6 is simply the Sicilian Defense. There is no "French Variation". The French people in 1834 were not stupid enough to play ...c5 until the d5-square was well in their control. 1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 - Goal is to get White to advance e5, relinquishing d5 before they play ...c5. It is offensive to the French people to tie their names to the weakening of the d5-square with 1...c5 when the d5-square is the spearhead of the French Defense that they established in 1834.
Conclusion - These post-game assessments of every move and needing to find a name for ever single move in the opening leads one to believe that the initial creator of the site was highly autistic. Not everything needs a label. Many chess moves are just chess moves, neither Great nor Best nor Excellent nor Bad nor a Blunder!
Usually, there's no best move: simply those that are better than others and the majority which are worse. So you're absolutely right.
The name for being right is correctness, which one day will be measured by computers according to degrees of correctness. If we make a comment on a forum, we'll be given dunce's caps in various colours, according to how wrong the computer thinks we are, except when we get it absolutely right. Being right will be called a geat comment and we'll get a crown, whereas one that seems bad but actually wins a debate will be brilliant and earn a wizard's hat..
Jan 19, 2026
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#13
Jan 19, 2026
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#14
For me, though not necessarily others, I appreciate the game evaluation features; it dove tails with my own method of improving at the game. For example, I play a lot of 5/0 chess and my goals are different in evaluating a 5/0 game and a Daily game. In 5/0, I am primarily interested in certain types of errors, and my calculation horizon is purposely short so, I don't care at all about inaccuracies, excellent or good moves, but do care about blunders, misses, and mistakes that are within my self-imposed calculation horizon. In particular, I would like to have certain mistakes explained as to why they are a mistake. For me, the game evaluation allows me many options in regard to improvement.
! moves (in chess.com) mean that, not only it was the best move, but all other moves worsen significantly the evaluation of you position, if you stand worse or equal, or makes you lose lots of the advantage you have got, if you stand better.
Would be □ in a chess book (means "only move")
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chess_annotation_symbols
That being said, and wether one agrees with OP's statements ot not, I'll add to it all, that something is missing in chess.com.
Yes, you guessed right, it's !? aka "Interresting move".
And that's because it's hard to explain to a software what Interresting means. Lol.
I would not drop all evaluations and notations from softwares in the trash can, but I take it simply for what it is: a thing to take with a pinch of salt.
Why do we even have it? It is completely ineffective! If such a feature is going to be in there, stop complicating the matter. Not ever move needs a stupid identifier.
How many times did you Blunder?
How many bad moves did you play?
How many times did you play a spectacular move?
1 double-exclam, 2 question marks, 1 double-question mark in 39 moves? Great! Look at the game, see what the key turning points are.
This would be FAR more effective than the useless trash it gives the way it is currently programmed.
Take the last game I played before this post.
1 Great
17 Best
18 Excellent
Now let me ask this question. If it isn't the best move, exactly how great or excellent than it really be?
Now do you see the stupidity in this? It is about as stupid as trying to come up with a fake name on every move of the opening. 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 e6 is simply the Sicilian Defense. There is no "French Variation". The French people in 1834 were not stupid enough to play ...c5 until the d5-square was well in their control. 1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 - Goal is to get White to advance e5, relinquishing d5 before they play ...c5. It is offensive to the French people to tie their names to the weakening of the d5-square with 1...c5 when the d5-square is the spearhead of the French Defense that they established in 1834.
Conclusion - These post-game assessments of every move and needing to find a name for ever single move in the opening leads one to believe that the initial creator of the site was highly autistic. Not everything needs a label. Many chess moves are just chess moves, neither Great nor Best nor Excellent nor Bad nor a Blunder!