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What's the difference between the best move, a great move, and brilliant move?

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SeanTheSheep021

Best, great and brilliant are all best moves, but best is just BEST, and great is when there is the only move that works, and a brilliant is something like a good sacrifice

Fr3nchToastCrunch

Best: Exactly what it sounds like.

Great (!): The only good/reasonable move in any given position. Note that the move in question must actually be good. If all of your legal moves suck (zugzwang), but one in particular sucks less, it probably won't get a "great" rating.

Brilliant (!!): A move that sacrifices a piece or ignores a threat on one; however, no matter what your opponent does, it's their position that will worsen.

magipi
cheetahisduma wrote:

I used stockfish to beat the heck out of everyone, but in the stockfish game, it said stockfish had no errors, but in the real game, it had a mistake and miss. Why is that?

The engine doing the "Game review" is shallow and dumb. It can't be trusted. The "mistake and miss" were actually good moves.

Also. don't cheat.

Fr3nchToastCrunch
cheetahisduma wrote:

I used stockfish to beat the heck out of everyone, but in the stockfish game, it said stockfish had no errors, but in the real game, it had a mistake and miss. Why is that?

There's still time to delete this. You're gonna get banned anyway.