You did not take the horse on b8. A brilliant move is made when you don't eat something to win or to have an advantage in the game.
Why is this a brilliant move?
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Let me go further in depth because my short explanation sounds confusing after I read it. "A move is brilliant if the engine doesn't think the move is best before the move is played at a certain depth. But after it is played when the engine analyzes the next move at the same depth, it'll figure out in hindsight that the previous move was better." From chess.com. How the engine work is that they look on how do you gain an advantage first. The engine is that you can immediately eat the horse and gain an immediate advantage but instead, you sacrifice your pawn and your knight to kill the queen and targeting 2 horses next.
But the knight on b8 was not hanging, the rook was protecting it
OK. A brilliant move is a move that the computer didn't see. It could be a move that humans saw, but the computer didn't.
Yes, but exf7+ led to a clear win, why did the computer miss it? I would expect calculation to be any computer’s strength
If a brilliant move is a move the engine didn’t see, then why does it call intentional moves/sacrifices when they immediately result in a checkmate as planned?
Edit - why does it call them blunders *
Idk. Computers are weird.
I thought that modern chess engines had eliminated their materialistic tendencies. Maybe not completely, though.
It’s a brilliant move because you’re “controlling the center”
They say that if you control the center, you control the game...
but exf7+ doesn't control the center, it just uncovers his king. I'm guessing because a computer doesn't think like a human, natural moves like exf7+ might not be what a computer originally wants
JuergenWerner wrote:
They say that if you control the center, you control the game...
engine said exf7 was the brilliant move, it doesn't control the center, although nfxd5 does, but they didn't label it as a brilliant move.
You don't always need to control the center even though it is a brilliant place.
You traded two pawns for a knight: Knight Value:4 Pawn Value:1 1+1=2 2 is half of 4 you would of needed to take 2 more pawns.
I played a 10 min rated game yesterday and after analyzing it with komodo, it said I played a brilliant move. Do any of you know what would qualify as a brilliant move? To me it just seemed like a natural one...
The so-called brilliant move was 14. exf7+. Honestly, if I had to choose a brilliant move from this game if there even was one, it would have been 11. nfxd5!
Can you help me analyze this?