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Should all piece sacs be brilliant?
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Mar 30, 2023
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#6
this bishop sac is considered a brilliant move. Meh. Kind of just capitalizing on a blunder if you ask me.
Jul 7, 2023
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#8
DesperateKingWalk wrote:
daiminghao wrote:
We all know that brilliant moves can be very awarding to you, but we need to decide if all piece sacs are brilliant, but only for good reasons like saccing a bishop for an open castle of some sort, or the smothered mate queen sac.
No!,
Chess.com is even awarding a brilliant move to sacs. That are not even the strongest move in the position.
happened to me once on mobile
YEEEES, most if not all should be brilliant. They are really rare, really hard to find, and often not naturally considered the "best move" in the position which means most of them can be better than the considered "best" move while some can end up being blunderous. The most that are would fit the criteria of a brilliant move which is :
- better than the "best" or "considered best" move
- Frank Marshall: Gold Coins equivalent sacrifice
- Garry Kasparov Lyon Championship game 20 type intuitive material sacrifice
- Win of material or game in all variations
- Move that looks impossible but is possible - Levy Rozman aka. Gothamchess
- You saw a good move but found a better one - Emanuel Lasker
- Destroys weaknesses or king safety
- Keeps in mind every opponent resource
- Some form of compensation in form of checkmate or material is reacquired deeming sacrifice to be worthy of play
Of course not all piece sacrifices are not brilliant! Many, perhaps most, of them aren't even really "sacrifices" at all, Mostly they are simply profitable exchanges, where you either mate by force or regain your material with interest--again by force.
Do not trade off all your pieces!
Jul 20, 2023
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#12
It's not always a brilliant move in my opinion.i sacrifice pieces for something really special.But Chess.com says usually a 'best move' or 'excellent move'.i'll go "damn, i want it in my chess career"
Meowing_power wrote:
It's not always a brilliant move in my opinion.i sacrifice pieces for something really special.But Chess.com says usually a 'best move' or 'excellent move'.i'll go "damn, i want it in my chess career"
If you do it for something special then it should be brilliant. These are the sacrifices that can make you're game like the Serper-Ionaidis Game .
We all know that brilliant moves can be very awarding to you, but we need to decide if all piece sacs are brilliant, but only for good reasons like saccing a bishop for an open castle of some sort, or the smothered mate queen sac.