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HOW MANY BRILLIANT MOVES YOU ALL HAVE PLAYED?

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Vaibhavplaysb4

I PLAYED 3 BRILLIANT MOVES AND MY RATING RANGE IS 1300-1400. IS THIS IS GOOD?

KeSetoKaiba

chess.com game report and CAPS (game "accuracy" and move annotations like "Innaccuracy" or "Brilliant") is commonly misunderstood. The chess.com definition for "Brilliant" has changed a lot over the years. It used to be very difficult to get the elusive Brilliant. You had to play a move which was BETTER than the "best move" and the engine would only see your move as better upon analyzing at a deeper depth! Needless to say, I probably had about half a dozen Brilliant moves over 1000+ games. 

Then chess.com made Brilliant moves easier to get because people complained how hard they were to earn. They changed the criterion to be some solid sacrifice which also met other hidden elements. Recently chess.com changed the definition again and now ANY sacrifice which is sound is considered "Brilliant." It is visually nice to see that blue double exclaim annotation, but now they pass them out like packs of gum and they don't mean much now. 

Watch this nice clip where chess.com caps Computer-Aggregated-Percentage-Score (accuracy) is interpreted a little bit for those misinformed.

Also like your current chess.com status about being a chess master xD

https://www.chess.com/forum/view/off-topic/do-you-want-to-be-a-master 

KeSetoKaiba
Vaibhavplaysb4 wrote:

I PLAYED 3 BRILLIANT MOVES AND MY RATING RANGE IS 1300-1400. IS THIS IS GOOD?

Oh, also please don't spam all caps in your title and original forum post:

Leilachess2

I can't tell exactly how many

zone_chess

Couple hundred. But that's because you study engine lines and learn what chess is about.
When on the verge of playing a 'human' move, look closer.
I agree sometimes the brilliancies are too easy to get - well at least the Greek gift isn't considered brilliant. But say, you sac a rook for a piece and the recapture reveals another piece capture - that's not brilliant just a good wad of post-mediocre tactical insight.

KeSetoKaiba
zone_chess wrote:

Couple hundred. But that's because you study engine lines and learn what chess is about.
When on the verge of playing a 'human' move, look closer.
I agree sometimes the brilliancies are too easy to get - well at least the Greek gift isn't considered brilliant. But say, you sac a rook for a piece and the recapture reveals another piece capture - that's not brilliant just a good wad of post-mediocre tactical insight.



KeSetoKaiba

you can run the game report to see Bxh7+!! counts as "Brilliant" now (even if it is a common pattern and not otherwise too special).

GM_PalMark
Vaibhavplaysb4 wrote:

I PLAYED 3 BRILLIANT MOVES AND MY RATING RANGE IS 1300-1400. IS THIS IS GOOD?

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Rxzxrrr
i’ve had a dozen of brilliant moves and my elo is 400 lol.. when I go and review the game the computer probably had like a series of 20 moves to win a pawn
Wits-end

Since i have received a few of them i can only deduce they mean nothing. Literally.

chriscougar

I just got a brilliant move, it was something like a Greek Gift, but not a Greek Gift?! It was a discovered attack with Bxh7+, Kxh7, and Qxd4. I am 550 rated BTW, so, yeah. I sacrificed, THE not rook , but THE BISHOPPPPPPPPP

Fr3nchToastCrunch

Four 💀

In all four of those moves, I channeled my inner GothamChess and sacrificed

THE ROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOK