"Brilliant" moves are ones that sacrifice a piece while improving your position. With this move, you're sacrificing the knight while preparing your rook to defend the king if white checks with a rook. If white takes the knight sacrifice, abandoning defense of their king, black's queen moves to d7, checking the king and forking both rooks. King has to move or bishop has to block the check, while black takes a rook on the next move, essentially winning the game. If white doesn't take the knight - let's say they check black's king with a rook - black is ready to block with the rook and trade pieces. (In this starting position, black is already ahead with a queen, but white's rook pair is powerful - sacrificing the knight and preparing rook to protect the king virtually wins the game as long as best moves are played.)
Why is this brilliant?
"Brilliant" moves are ones that sacrifice a piece while improving your position. With this move, you're sacrificing the knight while preparing your rook to defend the king if white checks with a rook. If white takes the knight sacrifice, abandoning defense of their king, black's queen moves to d7, checking the king and forking both rooks. King has to move or bishop has to block the check, while black takes a rook on the next move, essentially winning the game. If white doesn't take the knight - let's say they check black's king with a rook - black is ready to block with the rook and trade pieces. (In this starting position, black is already ahead with a queen, but white's rook pair is powerful - sacrificing the knight and preparing rook to protect the king virtually wins the game as long as best moves are played.)
wow thanks, I definitely didn’t think that far ahead… but thanks for the detailed explanation
Ok so I got my first brilliant move today, but I don’t know WHY it’s brilliant