Why is this a brilliant move

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https://www.chess.com/analysis/game/live/105015536722?tab=review&move=43

400 elo me doesn't understand xd

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You left your rook hanging .

Was it intentional?

The engine sees that if white takes your rook, it gets mated. Therefore, it has to sacrifice its queen to stop the mate.

You would have seen all this of course before you played the move.

That would have made the move brilliant.

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justbefair wrote:

You left your rook hanging .

Was it intentional?

The engine sees that if white takes your rook, it gets mated. Therefore, it has to sacrifice its queen to stop the mate.

You would have seen all this of course before you played the move.

That would have made the move brilliant.

Yea I felt that attacking the king would make the rook sac worth it, I just didn't know why it was recognised as brilliant instead of great or best. So basically it's because of the mate threat+ignoring the rook?

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wildyylul wrote:
justbefair wrote:

You left your rook hanging .

Was it intentional?

The engine sees that if white takes your rook, it gets mated. Therefore, it has to sacrifice its queen to stop the mate.

You would have seen all this of course before you played the move.

That would have made the move brilliant.

Yea I felt that attacking the king would make the rook sac worth it, I just didn't know why it was recognised as brilliant instead of great or best. So basically it's because of the mate threat+ignoring the rook?

On chess.com, "brilliant" means "a sacrifice that is good".

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magipi wrote:
wildyylul wrote:
justbefair wrote:

You left your rook hanging .

Was it intentional?

The engine sees that if white takes your rook, it gets mated. Therefore, it has to sacrifice its queen to stop the mate.

You would have seen all this of course before you played the move.

That would have made the move brilliant.

Yea I felt that attacking the king would make the rook sac worth it, I just didn't know why it was recognised as brilliant instead of great or best. So basically it's because of the mate threat+ignoring the rook?

On chess.com, "brilliant" means "a sacrifice that is good".

Thanks

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This is just bad play on both sides. Instead of advancing the Black King I would have played Qxc2 threatening the Bishop. But White should have brought out his Bishop pinning the knight. White got nothing from promoting the Pawn.

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imdabeast wrote:

This is just bad play on both sides. Instead of advancing the Black King I would have played Qxc2 threatening the Bishop. But White should have brought out his Bishop pinning the knight. White got nothing from promoting the Pawn.

There were a dozen obvious blunders on both sides, just dropping pieces for no reason. Compared to those, Ke7 was good.