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Are "excellent" move really stronger than "best" move?

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magipi

Chess.com is actually doing a great disservice to players by this whole nonsensical "Game review" stuff. This topic clearly shows the confusion it causes in everyone's mind.

It would me much-much better to instead teach new players how to use the engine and how to interpret what you see in engine analysis.

Rossignol_1

the order go

 
Brilliant
 
 
Great
 
 
Best
 
 
Excellent
 
 
Good
 
 
Book
 
 
Inaccuracy
 
 
Mistake
 
 
Miss
 
 
Blunder

Merciless_Boy
IntrovertedBroccoli wrote:

Hello guys! I was playing with a friend and by looking at the analysis I noticed something weird. Here's the image:
The "excellent" move bring the black to -10, while the "best" move to -57. That means that the "best" move is roughly 6 times stronger than the "excellent" one, but I have thought that an "excellent" move is stronger than a "best" one...can someone please clarify this concept to me? What am I missing?
Thanks!

Qf2 skewer

magipi
Rossignol_1 wrote:

the order go

 
Brilliant
 
 
Great
 
 
Best
 
 
Excellent
 
 
Good
 
 
Book
 
 
Inaccuracy
 
 
Mistake
 
 
Miss
 
 
Blunder

This is not true. Also, it is complete nonsense.

AdvaySahai

Excellent moves are good moves that are preferred by the engine at the 2nd priority. They are almost equal to the best moves but not better than the best moves as the best moves are the moves preferred by the engine at the first priority.

VenemousViper
AdvaySahai wrote:

Excellent moves are good moves that are preferred by the engine at the 2nd priority. They are almost equal to the best moves but not better than the best moves as the best moves are the moves preferred by the engine at the first priority.

Yes.

JingJiCong

hi everyone

Martin_Stahl
syk2004 wrote:

I have yet to get a "Brilliant" and I still don't know how to get them. I've noticed when I get Great Moves", it's because what I did was the first move from the "show moves" either from putting myself in a good position or the bot made a blunder. But how do I do a brilliant move, like I would imagen that the popular 4-move checkmate thing would be a brilliant, but It's not, it isn't even a "Great Move".

Brilliant moves are ones that sacrifice material or allow material to be captured and are good or best. There are some other things that can also influence it

https://support.chess.com/en/articles/8572705-how-are-moves-classified-what-is-a-blunder-or-brilliant-etc