The Dirty Truth About Brilliant Moves...

"We all love clicking game review and letting it show us how brilliant we are" "243 blunders"

21:32 the reason the pawn marching forward is a brilliant move is because it inspires a whole YouTube video

This is heartbreaking. At 1278 ELO I only last week reached the peak of my chess career receiving my first Brilliant move. Now Sensei says my brilliant move means nothing 😭😭😭

It is definitely elo based. I had two brilliant moves in a row, but when I checked the game again after going up around 200 elo, suddenly only one of them was brilliant.

I remember when I told my 200 elo friend about game review and first time he used game review his opponent made 3 brilliant moves and those "brilliant" moves were taking 3 pawns with a queen. Edit: so a lot of people think that when he took the pawns with a queen there was a piece hanging and I didn't see it, but no literally nothing was hanging he took 3 FREE pawns

Levy a few days ago: “I solved chess” Levy today: “chess is fascinating and endless”

I think pawn to d3 is a brilliant move because it gives an escape square for the knight which was otherwise trapped in the corner

You don’t need to be at a disadvantage to get a brilliant move, it just needs to be a forcing and creative sacrifice. Great moves, however, occur when any other move is bad, so some are easy to find and others difficult. I would say that a third of the brilliant moves are also great moves

Had a brilliant move yesterday. Thanks Levi, can always count on you to break my heart.

The weirdest thing though is that a few years back, a brillant move actually was a move that wasn't even seen by Stockfish at first. Only after a few second of looking at the position and realizing that "your move" was better than "Stockfish's top choice" it was deemed brillant. Those were some of the best times because it actually meant you played a really really good move and it felt absolutely awesome to get one. Nowadays you just leave your pieces hanging and all of the sudden you are a genius. Kinda sad

I'm old school and view the "brilliant" exclam (and especially double exclam) as requiring much more than an immediate tactical combo. It has to be something unbelievable, incredibly difficult to spot during a real game, and "surprisingly" effective. Something like Kasparov's Rxd4 in his immortal game is what's required.

Dude. I gotta say, where were these 300-500 elo when I was climbing... No one is nearly this lost when I was playing

I think 21:32 is brilliant because the pawn makes a safe square (c2) for the knight to escape (while losing the rook)

My friend and I were once playing a game of chess and when we checked the review it said that me castling was a brilliancy, so now any time one of us castles we yell "brilliant move!"

I believe that, considering it's a game between 300s, move d3 (21:12) is considered a brilliant move because of the fact that there are ways that the player with the black pieces can still checkmate the opponent by not taking the bishop on a8. The move sequence would (possibly) be like this: Bf2 d3 Bxa8 Bc3 Nxc3 bxc3 Rh4 Nc2 Kc1 Qg5+ Kb1 Na3+ Ka1 Qc1# Alternative: ... Ka1 c2 Bd4 Qc1# But, only if something like that happens. Of course, there's probably another sequence of moves available that would lead to a checkmate, but that's for the 300s to try and find which will never happen :D

I got a pawn protected by a horse forking two Queens then got mated

I think the reason d3 at 21:12 is a brilliant move is because it helps the trapped knight on a1 escape.

When you see the elefant gambit, you know it’s either played by a 500, or it’s just Hikaru disrespecting his opponent

It's been my experience that the easiest way to get a brilliant move evaluation is to sacrifice a piece offensively to crack open the king's position.

"Suddenly you're barely better, but then your opponent blunders all their pieces and they lose anyway" - Levi 2023