New criteria for "brilliant" moves?

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Avatar of KingBlunder420

For the last month or so, I have been making "brilliant" moves at least once a week...whereas I made 2 brilliant moves in the past year.  Either I am improving very rapidly all of the sudden, or they eased the criteria for brilliancy.  Has anybody else had this experience?

Avatar of M1m1c15
Yep they made any Sacrifices that Are good or best, automatically brilliant
Avatar of communismwillwin420

I think they have adjusted them recently so that lower ELO players will get more brilliant moves. It's like yeah you're rated 1000 but only a 1800 should find that move so have a brilliant sticker.

Avatar of tygxc

The criteria for brilliant are much too loose.
A true brilliant move satisfies 4 criteria:
1) It is a winning move: a losing or drawing move is not brilliant
2) It is unique: when several moves win, then none is brilliant
3) It involves a sacrifice: that is aethetically pleasing
4) It is a quiet move: no check (+) or capture (x)
Here is an example of a true brilliant move, satisfying all 4 criteria:
https://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1031957 

Avatar of aanval22

I think the recent adjustment was as follows: a move is brilliant if it is a) the best move, or only move, and b) it involves some form of sacrifice.

Avatar of Vincidroid

Previously it used to be the moves that the Engine failed to find within a certain depth. It took them deeper calculations to reach the move. That's what used to be the brilliant move. 

 

In contrast to that, now they changed the algorithm to any reasonable sacrificial move.

 

Avatar of porkqupine

> 1) It is a winning move: a losing or drawing move is not brilliant

This is not true, a couple of days a dude showed a game with a "frenzied" rook, like 20-something "brilliant" moves in a row.

> 4) It is a quiet move: no check (+) or capture (x)

And all of them were checks. And I personally had "brilliant" capture moves. Maybe checks too, not sure.

 

https://www.chess.com/forum/view/general/look-how-many-brilliant-move-black-did#last_comment

here you go

Avatar of Ilampozhil25
porkqupine wrote:

> 1) It is a winning move: a losing or drawing move is not brilliant

This is not true, a couple of days a dude showed a game with a "frenzied" rook, like 20-something "brilliant" moves in a row.

> 4) It is a quiet move: no check (+) or capture (x)

And all of them were checks. And I personally had "brilliant" capture moves. Maybe checks too, not sure.

 

https://www.chess.com/forum/view/general/look-how-many-brilliant-move-black-did#last_comment

here you go

he is talking about true brilliant moves, not chess.com "brilliant moves"

Avatar of porkqupine
Ilampozhil25 написал:
porkqupine wrote:

> 1) It is a winning move: a losing or drawing move is not brilliant

This is not true, a couple of days a dude showed a game with a "frenzied" rook, like 20-something "brilliant" moves in a row.

> 4) It is a quiet move: no check (+) or capture (x)

And all of them were checks. And I personally had "brilliant" capture moves. Maybe checks too, not sure.

 

https://www.chess.com/forum/view/general/look-how-many-brilliant-move-black-did#last_comment

here you go

he is talking about true brilliant moves, not chess.com "brilliant moves"

And in your opinion it starts to make sense then?

Avatar of porkqupine

@Ilampozhil25 Ah, nvm, I'm dumb, just realized what you both meant.