Has anyone ever played a brilliant move??
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Brilliance doesn't come around that often, but when it does it's always apparent several moves after it's been made.
Yes, two times. The next moves didn´t go well. 
I hope you don't mind, but I will give you a different example of what may be considered a 'brilliant' move. I was playing a game with an audience watching and moved my pawn forward to the sixth row, trapping his queen on the eighth. I had hoped to move my rook on the far side up to checkmate him shortly after. Unfortunately my move opened the way for him to check me repeatedly, taking off some of my key pieces. Clearly, my move was not working out too well. I was getting worried but eventually decided I had to stop him checking me, so moved my king out, deliberately into harms' way. The 'easiest' way for him to checkmate me was now to leave my king alone for one move while he positioned his attack. He took the bait.
'Checkmate next move' he proudly announced. The audience started politely applauding him. I spent some time checking the position again and again, just to be sure, before slowly nodding my head and agreeing ' yes, you are correct...'. While his smile grew I moved my rook to the eighth row and announced 'Checkmate'.
He was stunned. The audience was stunned. Technically, it wasn't the most clever move I ever made (nor was moving the pawn earlier) but for me, it was the most satisfying and therefore the most 'brilliant' move, I ever made. Probably, because of it all being out of the blue and in front of an audience who gasped along with my opponent when it happened. 
Jofren wrote:
I hope you don't mind, but I will give you a different example of what may be considered a 'brilliant' move. I was playing a game with an audience watching and moved my pawn forward to the sixth row, trapping his queen on the eighth. I had hoped to move my rook on the far side up to checkmate him shortly after. Unfortunately my move opened the way for him to check me repeatedly, taking off some of my key pieces. Clearly, my move was not working out too well. I was getting worried but eventually decided I had to stop him checking me, so moved my king out, deliberately into harms' way. The 'easiest' way for him to checkmate me was now to leave my king alone for one move while he positioned his attack. He took the bait.
'Checkmate next move' he proudly announced. The audience started politely applauding him. I spent some time checking the position again and again, just to be sure, before slowly nodding my head and agreeing ' yes, you are correct...'. While his smile grew I moved my rook to the eighth row and announced 'Checkmate'.
He was stunned. The audience was stunned. Technically, it wasn't the most clever move I ever made (nor was moving the pawn earlier) but for me, it was the most satisfying and therefore the most 'brilliant' move, I ever made. Probably, because of it all being out of the blue and in front of an audience who gasped along with my opponent when it happened.
Great story!
Caesar49bc wrote:
Brilliant move, and I've done the occasional brilliant move, is generally a move that wouldn't stand out in a crowd, yet ultimately is the dagger that starts a chain of moves that leads to your opponent's downfall.
A move that quickly, after a couple more moves, becomes apparent that the move was a game changer: suddenly a stale drawish game, or perhaps you were on the ropes, sucking wind just to not get mated or crushed, turns your game into win as long as you don't blunder or make a critical mistake.
Certainly a brilliant move by someone 1200 would not compare to a brilliancy be a player rated 1600 or 2200 or Magnus Carlsen. That's what nice about brilliant moves: they can scale according to what would be expected of a player at a particular rating level.
If a 1200 finds a brilliant move, its probably something a 1700 would find in a few seconds or less under time pressure.. 😉
You are actually wrong. Brilliant move means that the computer did not think it was the best move until it was played, therefore it means you did a "better" move than the engine would have done, it has nothing to do with peoples ratings... it is directly compared with the engine.
Every move I make is a brilliant move 👺
SpeckledGrill wrote:
Every move I make is a brilliant move 👺
lmao me too
You will have more brilliant moves if you analyze your games.
i got my first brilliant move.but i dont understand it anyways!
https://www.chess.com/analysis/game/live/6534485497?tab=report
my first brilliant move though i dont know why hhe
This is my first brilliant move (I started a couple of months ago). Vs. Isabel bot. I am rated 370 to her supposed 1600. But I can beat Antonio and Nelson routinely and her often. I take longer of course and play the bots with no pressure.
Anyway, my move here was hardly my best. It seems obvious. It is nifty and broke the tied game open, but computer analysis sees it immediately even with shallow depth. I might not have played this 2 out of 3 time, but it is not beyond comprehension and notice of a 370 rated player. I am not convinced ratings factor into brilliance. This is not my best move ever. And my bot opponents have never made a brilliant move. Curious. I think it has to do more with being the only move that breaks open the long draw dance.
Just adding to my prior post. Could it be that this move accomplishes so much? Protects pawn. Prevents check. Defends rook taking knight if I have to move up. Limits king movements. Ultimately led to promotion as a result of these. So not that I am so smart but that it does so much. I didn’t even notice all of the value at the time I made it. Seemed a simple move to defend the pawn.
The engine often says the obvious moves are brilliant. For example, even recaptures. I don't think it is because of the value of the move itself, but a flaw with the engine occasionally overlooking simple ideas.
OK, this 18th move was brilliant to me if played right. It looks like a blunder being taken by king, but the rook was lost on the next turn due to a blunder by black. If you play it out correctly for a few moves, black loses the rook but quickly takes the queen and a black rook back. So the sack was worth it and the Queen will dominate. I had to play it out to see it (correcting for inaccuracies).
I've played moves I think were brilliant. Does that count?
Also oftentimes the theoretically 'best' moves are not always practically the best moves. Think of setting traps or playing moves where your opponent only has one or two viable replies.
Yea when your playing against an opponent that isn’t as good sometimes playing a move like that will lead to a Quicker advantage than the best move, though I assume higher level players wouldn’t fall so easily into the traps.