They often award them for fairly simply sacrifices and mate in twos etc when one exclamation mark would do. I believe that two exclamation marks should only be awarded for truly exceptional moves.
Are "Brilliant moves" in computer analysis just any decent sacrifice now?
So a brilliant move is defined as a good sacrifice and for the same position is more likely to be awarded a weaker rated player or someone recovering from a mistake? Well, I make a lot of mistakes and do a lot of analysis trying to work my way out of bad positions, so maybe that's why I have gotten several "brilliant" moves! But I'm not happy with that definition. I think a brilliant move should be one that's very difficult to see and that leads to a major improvement in your position. A queen sacrifice that gives you a mate the next move might be too easy to see to rate a "brilliant", perhaps something that requires looking several moves ahead would be really worthy. I also would like it if all "Brilliant" moves were judged purely on tactical considerations and not based on ratings of how you were doing in the game, that way there would be an equivalence between players that won them. You could not then say that they got a "brilliant !!" because of generosity towards a weaker or beginner player. Actually what I would like is a numeric rating for all "best" moves that shows the difficulty of finding it. I realize that really good players might see advantages in some moves not recognized by a computer.
So a brilliant move is defined as a good sacrifice and for the same position is more likely to be awarded a weaker rated player or someone recovering from a mistake? Well, I make a lot of mistakes and do a lot of analysis trying to work my way out of bad positions, so maybe that's why I have gotten several "brilliant" moves! But I'm not happy with that definition. I think a brilliant move should be one that's very difficult to see and that leads to a major improvement in your position. A queen sacrifice that gives you a mate the next move might be too easy to see to rate a "brilliant", perhaps something that requires looking several moves ahead would be really worthy. I also would like it if all "Brilliant" moves were judged purely on tactical considerations and not based on ratings of how you were doing in the game, that way there would be an equivalence between players that won them. You could not then say that they got a "brilliant !!" because of generosity towards a weaker or beginner player. Actually what I would like is a numeric rating for all "best" moves that shows the difficulty of finding it. I realize that really good players might see advantages in some moves not recognized by a computer.
like it is
They are very, very rare. I actually received one. In all of the moves from all of the games - one. And as some have noted, they have never received one.
The definition of Brilliant, I believe, is a best move hard to find. So, in my case, I think it was more luck than skill. Ok, all luck . . .
bros boasting about a brillient move
they arnt that rare
2 years late but after a couple months got my first Brilliant move. https://www.chess.com/game/19bf42e0-db1e-11ed-9b57-73029701000f
Won the game by resignation. Not sure why it was brilliant but my accuracy in the game was lower than average but still fair
It's cool to get a brilliant move for a good sacrifice, but a lot of the time it either wont give you a brilliant move for a brilliant sacrifice, or it'll give you a brilliant move for a simple queen trade
Good sacrifices are one of the key characteristics of tactical play, aka Romantic Chess. It’s one of the things I wish to learn.
My only brilliant move was one that I do think deserved being a winning brilliancy but I was so enamored by it that when in the combination leading to it my opponent transposed two moves I overlooked a much simpler win that the transposition allowed (which would not have been deserving of a brilliancy).
I console myself by knowing that without the transposition the brilliancy was required to win, but I have to kick myself for missing a simple win.
PS K+N+P+P vs K+B with the Knight about to be kicked from defending a Pawn leaving the Bishop with lots of chances to sacrifice itself for the last Pawn. I intentionally aimed for the position and opted to sacrifice my Knight and move the Pawns so that one was attacked by the Bishop and the other was attacked by the King but if either one was taken then my King and remaining Pawn were positioned just right so that the other would Queen. I figured on winning a fairly easy K+Q vs K+B endgame.
i got a brilliant by taking a pawn and if the other pawn takes back, I get mate with a queen and rook battery
Brilliant move's are all about unavoidable forced checkmates as long as you do the right moves i got my second brilliant today.
After "blundering" on move 57 (I missed a free bishop for a pawn) I received a brilliant move for 58 (sac the knight with an unstoppable sac of one of my two pawns while the other queens). On move 52 I had seen the idea and was so focused on it that I missed the fork on 57.
So a brilliant move could also be a subtle but winning sacrifice.
https://www.chess.com/analysis/game/daily/475241067?tab=analysis
They changed the definition of a "brilliant move" in 2021. (July 2021 in beta)
Here is the current definition:
Brilliant (!!) moves and Great Moves are always the best or nearly best move in the position, but are also special in some way. We replaced the old Brilliant algorithm with a simpler definition: a Brilliant move is when you find a good piece sacrifice. There are some other conditions, like you should not be in a bad position after a Brilliant move and you should not be completely winning even if you had not found the move. Also, we are more generous in defining a piece sacrifice for newer players, compared with those who are higher rated.
https://support.chess.com/article/2965-how-are-moves-classified-what-is-a-blunder-or-brilliant-and-etc
/ That explains why this thread started in 2020 and has a couple of pages of people saying they have had only one or have never had one and then all of the sudden, nearly everybody has them.