Wondering why this accidental move was brilliant, any ideas? ( 9. b4 )
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Mar 1, 2024
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Whoa! That's an actual "Brilliant move" if someone were to see the idea. Even I didn't see the "trap" at first.
chess.com has changed the criterion for what counts as a "Brilliant" move over the years, but the current definition is "any good sacrifice." I don't know what counts as "good" since not all sacrifices are "Brilliant" but whatever the case, this move is SUPER tricky!
The "sacrifice" is that you provoked the queen into capturing your c3 knight. Maybe you didn't see the knight could be taken. Idk. At least your opponent probably didn't see it because they retreated with ...Qd6.
What is "Brilliant" is that ...Qxc3? puts their queen in a spot where it gets trapped!
...Qxc3 Rb1 ...Be6 (black queen has no safe squares since the b4 pawn now controls c5 where the queen came from) Bb2! The black queen is trapped!
KeSetoKaiba wrote:
Whoa! That's an actual "Brilliant move" if someone were to see the idea. Even I didn't see the "trap" at first.
chess.com has changed the criterion for what counts as a "Brilliant" move over the years, but the current definition is "any good sacrifice." I don't know what counts as "good" since not all sacrifices are "Brilliant" but whatever the case, this move is SUPER tricky!
The "sacrifice" is that you provoked the queen into capturing your c3 knight. Maybe you didn't see the knight could be taken. Idk. At least your opponent probably didn't see it because they retreated with ...Qd6.
What is "Brilliant" is that ...Qxc3? puts their queen in a spot where it gets trapped!
...Qxc3 Rb1 ...Be6 (black queen has no safe squares since the b4 pawn now controls c5 where the queen came from) Bb2! The black queen is trapped!
Oh, thank you for explaining, it was confusing at first. ^^
If ...Qxc3 Bd2 has it trapped also.