What does this mean? brilliant?!

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   why is this brilliant? isnt it obvious? what is a brilliant move? can anyone explain?

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@1

Chess.com adopts a loose definition of brilliant.

A true brilliant move satisfies 4 criteria:

  1. It is a winning move: drawing or losing moves are not brilliant.
  2. It is unique: when 2 moves win, then none is brilliant.
  3. It involves a sacrifice, as that is aesthetically pleasing.
  4. It is a quiet move, no check (+) or capture (x), as those are too obvious to be considered brilliant.

An example of a true brilliant move: 30 Ba3
https://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1031957

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thank you, I was wondering cuz my bishop move felt too obvious to me... so I wanted to know if too obvious moves can also be classified under brilliant moves

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#1, that “brilliant” move is because you sacrificed your bishop and you could get their queen
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Ry0men-Sukunaa wrote:

thank you,

No, don't thank him. Everything tygxc wrote is complete nonsense and has nothing to do with how chess.com uses the word.

On chess.com a brilliant move is "a sacrifice that's good". It may be obvious (like here). It isn't necessarily the best move.

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A brilliant move is when you find a great sacrifice . In this situation if the king takes the bishop then you can take its queen from your queen

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From my experience, brilliant moves in chess.com tend to fall into one of two veins:

1. A move that uses a sacrifice to gain an advantage, while also being one of the best moves available

2. A move that is one of the best moves available, and one that is not intuitive or obvious in why it's so successful. Such moves often seem to expose your own pieces to danger in the process

Note that a brilliant move need not be a sacrifice. Here's a non-sacrifice example that happened in one of my bot games:

The brilliancy occurs on move 17 with Bxd3. Black is free to capture this d3 pawn, despite looking like it gets the Black Bishop set up to be taken. The bot failed to understand why this Bishop cannot be captured: if the e-pawn captures that Black Bishop (or the Knight), it stops blocking the e-file, and a swift checkmate follows.

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There’s a support article on that, but to summarize:

It could be a great move (you are winning if you play it, but not if you play any other move)

It allows your opponent to capture material
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A brilliant move is only brilliant if the player making the move understands why it is brilliant.
I have seen beginners on stream going crazy when the review told them they made a brilliant move. The reality of it is that if they don't understand why it is a brilliant move, they were actually just hanging material.

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#2 a drawing move can be brilliant too from a losing position. Once I got 3 brilliant by sacrificing my rook for stalemate a few times in a completely losing position.
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what about this ?

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it has a question mark but there weren't any brilliants.

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Because u didn’t go into game review so it was supposed to say how many __ moves u did but brilliant moves show ?

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no

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Serval-Tunner wrote:

no

😮‍💨 I guess bro want attention

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Brilliant means giving a piece away for "free", but if your opponent captures it, they are at a tactical disadvantage (in your case, their king is exposed and they have lost castling rights).

In this post, I touch on how the algorithm for brilliant moves works.

https://www.chess.com/blog/Ethanchock7/how-to-get-your-first-brilliant-move-the-complete-guide

Also, the correlation between rating and getting a brilliant: some moves are brilliant for lower rated players, but not for higher rated players.

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Isn't that tennis on gambit?

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