It's because this pawn is getting close to become a queen. Also by sacrificing the rook queen gets in a very good position to destroy the white, by controlling the best diagonal and on the other end of the diagonal are all white pieces there for the taking.
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
Nowadays 1000s literally get estimates of 1600 on game review. I think the ratings r doing the opposite of inflating and now the lower ratings r way stronger
@@Nightly_NightI started playing chess in April. I just reached 400 today. I have never played opponents as bad as some of the 700s and 800s that were in this video. I think even the 100s I played against in my first month were better than the 400s seen here.
22:32 I think the reason d3 is awarded "brilliant move" is because it allows the black knight to escape from the corner (by moving to c2 on the next move)
I have a question WHY DOES NO ONE KNOW WHY BISHOP B2 IS A BRILLIANT MOVE its cuz if they take the rook you take back and there is no bishop to protect f7 square so you move your bishop to f7 and if rook takes take their knight with your bishop in b2 if they recapture give a check to the king and pin the rook if they take checkmate and if they dont checkmate. thank you very much
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
How is it even possible to make a move that is better than Stockfish's top choice? Is it something like a depth thing? Or is it more like the "Stockfish best move" is a very computer move that is only the best if you play like Stockfish but is otherwise bad in a game between two humans?
@@Zulk_RS it's a move that stockfish misevaluates and only with time it realizes that's it's really really good. Didn't happen very often but when it did it felt amazing
How does that work though? Doesn't stockfish determine the quality of a move in the first place? Or do they use a different engine/higher depth to see what happens
Stock fish is set to a cheers in depth. So if it calculates 18 moves down the line and says A is the best move, but you play B, now 18 moves down the line is 1 more move than before. So if the evaluation changes with that extra bit of depth, the move is deemed brilliant.
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
@@sidroblox398 but you are not only saving the knight, you are also capturing the bishop (if we assume black knight would be captured it’s -2 material while saving black knight is +1 material advantage)
Also note that the knight is close to the king and more useful than the hanging rook. The rook is not contributing enough to black's advantage and therefore it's better to lose it. A 1234 elo can guess this.
I think it's white takes rook, queen g5, bishop e3? to stop the mate(?), queen takes bishop on e3, knight e2 to hope the queen walks into the trap, queen takes knight, king cant take or move, mate. Or something, the line seems like the only thing that makes sense.
@@stEv3900 yeah but it shouldn't be that brilliant because you could probably save the rook and still save the knight level. It wasn't worth being brilliant
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 😭😭😭
@@JajaofAbuja also every brilliant move does something good for future or in present as you can see at the bishop brilliant move is does benefit to white
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
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 remember I once got a brilliancy from castling, because I wanted to prevent a pawn from becoming a queen. I found the match recently and now it's only an excellent move.
Not only is the algorithm for brilliant moves connected to the ELO of the player, the estimated ELO at the end of the game is as well. For example, take the game Magnus played a couple weeks ago that estimated he played at a 3400-level. If you copy the PGN and remove the ELO for both players from it and run it through the Game Review again, it will say he played at a 2500-level.
Yes the Estimated elo is connected to players elo but *no* brilliant moves are not I tried playing games (that other higher and lower players had brilliant move in) move by move from 0 and it still gave me the same result
I LOVE YOU!!! FINALKY SOMEONE WH UNDERSTANDS I'M TIRED OF SEEING NOOBS FLEXING THEIR BRILLIANT MOVES THAT ARE JUST DISCOVER ATTACKS AND THEN SAYING “OH LOOK STOCKFISH THINKS IM -- ELO OMG”
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.
@@bigfootsburneraccount9160 yeah i frequently finish games and it's like "SIX BLUNDERS" and then i open review and it's like "0 blunders 4 mistakes :)"
i think pawn push is brilliant because it allows you safely remove your more active piece from the corner(the knight) to safety while ignoring your less active piece(the rook)
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.
I think there should be one additional level of !!! and ???. A move like Kasparov’s should be “legendary” and quite literally be nearly impossible to achieve for a human. ??? should be any incredibly obvious blunder that throws away an otherwise completely winning game into a now easily lost one.
At the end of the day it's an algorithm it will never be fully accurate and precise. For example I sacrificed a bishop in the hopes my opponent would take with the queen and not the king which made sense due to not castling yet, allowing me to get a fork on the king and queen. The computer regarded my bishop sacrifice as an inaccuracy. You see.
I can only think of 2 possible reasons the pawn push was brilliant. 1. It gives the knight in the corner a protected escape square. 2. It relieves the queen of an attacked piece. If the pawn stayed there and black pushed a different pawn, after bxa8, Qxa8, black loses that pawn.
I think part of the algorithm is that brilliant moves are moves that are given as *terrible* moves by the engine on a shallow search depth but then turn out to be the best one for that scenario at a much greater depth. It's trying to mimic how humans see great moves, ones that look unintuitive or just bad at first glance but then turn out to be amazing when you think them through.
8:05 I think the brilliancy there was that the bishop sees g7 at 8:56. If it wasn't on b2, then Re8 could be met by ...Nc7, Qxf7 Kh8, since Qxg7 mate is only possible because the bishop is on b2.
Idea for game 2 @ 8:33 : Bb2 is brilliant because the following moves are Bxf7+, unpinning your rook and allowing the queen to develop into the game, and because black lost the queen, white gets a massive advantage. Bb2 is developing the dark squared bishop and blocking an attack on the rook, so that black has no counterplay against Bxf7+ (Kh8 is bad because it lines up with the bishop on b2)
21:12 I can’t explain the brilliant move rating, but I can say it does 2 things: 1) protects the active knight and gives it a space to escape from the corner. 2) It is a passed pawn that would limit the mobility of the king. Ironically, in an analysis, the recommended move for white is Bishop g3. I really can’t explain it.
The last brilliant move was probably because it helps the knight escape from being trapped, Knight to c2 and then move out of there because pawn protects that knight which means king can’t take? Idk I’m thinking it out as a 560 ELO myself
I was thinking maybe like ignore the bishop taking your rook. Move your bishop c3 to sacrifice the knight take to push your b pawn to c3 and then push that pawn up to c2 check then d2 check protected by Queen and guarantee a promotion?
as a 4850 elo I can confirm thats a brilliant move, yes bcause the knight is more valuable to supress the opponent's king in the future,, even me I will let my opponent take the rook, cause i dont need the rook in that position,, already winning position,, the white's bishop is a valuable defense for white and will make black's attack take more time for winning,, so just trade it with rook
Brilliant moves are moves where you sacrifice material while it is the best move according to the engine. Check the game analysis and also, the evaluation doesn't drop on that move.
that time when you, 900 elo rated, sacrifice a queen in order to get a backrank mate with a rook... that was the first brilliant I achieved knowing what I was doing (I had plenty of them but they were random knight moves for position).
21:35 not only it puts an important pawn on a safer square, it protects the knite. I think it was supposed to be a Very good move (!) than briliand (!!)
Even better: it opens the diagonal for the queen. Imagine you had a queen on b2. White would be slaughtered. d3 allows you to play Qf6, attacking the bishop on f2. If the bishop moves or is defended, you play Qb2! and white is getting mated or losing everything. It's a nice move, actually.
I once got three brilliant moves in a game , two of which were pawn moves and the third was an unintentional rook sacrifice but the only move i really calculated thoroughly trapping the queen and winning it losing a bishop in the plan
I received over 20 brilliant moves before reaching 1000, just 6 months after i started playing. Half of these i didn't bother saving because i felt like i did not deserve it, although i do think it would be funny to somehow re-visit them one day.
Thanks for letting us pick the next video! BTW I had my first brilliant move recently (700 rated) and it turned out to be a placeholder move while I spend more time thinking. I did not use that brilliant move to its full potential.
I once played a game against an opponent who played a "brilliant" move against me, the game was a hard struggle with low king safety for the both of us and a lot of loose pieces. I actually won that game and thought I would get a brilliant move after finding a beautiful tactical defense, where after my king was checked I sacced my knight to force the queen on an akward square and expose her to several tactics if he chose to take the it. For some reason that move ws considered a ok move by the engine at low depth, and tried to argue that my opponent was better after keeping the pin on the knight and trying to expand on the king side. After analysing the line, it appear that the plan actually went nowhere. What's more the engine said at much higher depth that my move was the only winnng one for me.
I guess 22:04 is a brilliant move because it's enabling the night at the corner to escape safetly because the king cannot capture it while it is protecting by a pawn
I am a long time physical board player who just started playing online in the last week. I usually play good with no blunders and few mistakes. I was wondering why I never get brilliant moves and this explains it really well.
Just yesterday had a brilliant I didn't quite understand in the position, it seems interesting now to look at this as how to evaluate on how it applies in the actual game, thanks Levy!
Theory #1 Maybe the algorithm evaluates moves based on the game as a whole. So, the bishop moving to A6 in that one example was deemed brilliant because it later lead the charge into White's collapse maybe? Theory #2 It factors in your ELO, like Levy said. Theory #3 The computer sees some of the craziest branches of theory that no normal human would play, so brilliance is seen from an omnipotent standpoint
My 300 elo friend once got a brilliant move for taking a pawn that was "guarded" by a knight (which was very obviously pinned to the queen) and yes the guy took with the knight and lost their queen
21:20: It is probably a brilliant move because you are losing material with the rook and bishop trade on a1, yet it is still the best move according to the computer.
21:30 The plan is to not even take back when the bishop takes and just plant your queen on f6 and threaten checkmate. Granted it's mate in 9 so the 300's would never find it, but it is a forced checkmate rook sacrifice. The one and only response is to bring the bishop back to f3 after capturing the rook, then queen b2, knight g2, pawn takes knight check, king moves to e1, queen takes knight check, king takes pawn, queen takes rook. This series leaves white down on the exchange 5 points, two knights and a rook for rook and pawn, just to avoid mate. Of course its still mate in like 30 moves, but plenty of time for another blunder to swing the game all the way back.
21:32 the reason the pawn marching forward is a brilliant move is because it inspires a whole TH-cam video
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İ think it is because it gives a knight an escape route
@@murademinli3001 That's what I was thinking. It covers Nc2. That's all I got though.
It's because this pawn is getting close to become a queen. Also by sacrificing the rook queen gets in a very good position to destroy the white, by controlling the best diagonal and on the other end of the diagonal are all white pieces there for the taking.
@@Slav4o911 Just because it's on the 3rd rank, it's not much of a queen threat. I don't think that's it at all.
"We all love clicking game review and letting it show us how brilliant we are"
"243 blunders"
WHAT AND HOW
"In the 10 move"
it's more impressive to win with 243 blunders than 2 brilliant moves
@@scappley1735 it takes 2 to blunder to win a lost game
@@dj_koen1265 ive gotten 11 blunders and won💀
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
One brilliant move i had was moving a pawn, it did literally nothing didnt attack or open anything up it just gave a brilliant for free
I had a brilliant move once that was nothing but developing my knight from its starting position
@@Thetravelingmonke welcome to the chess engine, it’s bad
I had a brilliant move where I castled long.
Could you do better?
Dude. I gotta say, where were these 300-500 elo when I was climbing... No one is nearly this lost when I was playing
Nowadays 1000s literally get estimates of 1600 on game review. I think the ratings r doing the opposite of inflating and now the lower ratings r way stronger
why this so relatable
@@Nightly_NightI started playing chess in April. I just reached 400 today. I have never played opponents as bad as some of the 700s and 800s that were in this video. I think even the 100s I played against in my first month were better than the 400s seen here.
Because you are the one
Bro the 300s I play are like 1400 istg 😭🙏
22:32 I think the reason d3 is awarded "brilliant move" is because it allows the black knight to escape from the corner (by moving to c2 on the next move)
no im pretty sure its a really brilliant rook sacrifice
Levy a few days ago: “I solved chess”
Levy today: “chess is fascinating and endless”
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yea it's called click baite
He may have solved it, but that doesn't mean there aren't endless games...
I have a question WHY DOES NO ONE KNOW WHY BISHOP B2 IS A BRILLIANT MOVE its cuz if they take the rook you take back and there is no bishop to protect f7 square so you move your bishop to f7 and if rook takes take their knight with your bishop in b2 if they recapture give a check to the king and pin the rook if they take checkmate and if they dont checkmate. thank you very much
Had a brilliant move yesterday. Thanks Levi, can always count on you to break my heart.
If he didn't tell you the truth he'd be doing you a disservice leading you into more and more confusion
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It's the least he can do when you can't even spell his name right...
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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
How is it even possible to make a move that is better than Stockfish's top choice? Is it something like a depth thing? Or is it more like the "Stockfish best move" is a very computer move that is only the best if you play like Stockfish but is otherwise bad in a game between two humans?
@@Zulk_RS it's a move that stockfish misevaluates and only with time it realizes that's it's really really good. Didn't happen very often but when it did it felt amazing
How does that work though? Doesn't stockfish determine the quality of a move in the first place? Or do they use a different engine/higher depth to see what happens
They should bring this back. Made way more sense than the current system.
Stock fish is set to a cheers in depth. So if it calculates 18 moves down the line and says A is the best move, but you play B, now 18 moves down the line is 1 more move than before. So if the evaluation changes with that extra bit of depth, the move is deemed brilliant.
Just won a chess game with a second to spare
Who needs brilliants?
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
Sacrificing queen = great move 💀
@@shaunthedcoaddict1656 Sacrificing rook for checkmate in 1 = Good ☠
@@shaunthedcoaddict1656are you sayong its a great move or the dark blue single ! (best award u can geet imo)
Knight sacrifice threatening fork= good SKULLEMOJIIII
I think 21:32 is brilliant because the pawn makes a safe square (c2) for the knight to escape (while losing the rook)
but isnt saving the rook better than saving the knight tho..
@@sidroblox398 stockfish probably thinks that a knight next to the opponents king is more valuable than a rook doing nothing
its only brilliant cuz its one of the top (i think 3) moves and it sacrifices material
@@sidroblox398 if bishop takes rook you lose 5pts of material but take back 3 (-2 overall), if you let the knight ve taken you lose 3 points overall
@@sidroblox398 but you are not only saving the knight, you are also capturing the bishop (if we assume black knight would be captured it’s -2 material while saving black knight is +1 material advantage)
I think the reason d3 at 21:12 is a brilliant move is because it helps the trapped knight on a1 escape.
agree
That’s what I’m thinking
Also note that the knight is close to the king and more useful than the hanging rook. The rook is not contributing enough to black's advantage and therefore it's better to lose it. A 1234 elo can guess this.
I think it's white takes rook, queen g5, bishop e3? to stop the mate(?), queen takes bishop on e3, knight e2 to hope the queen walks into the trap, queen takes knight, king cant take or move, mate. Or something, the line seems like the only thing that makes sense.
@@stEv3900 yeah but it shouldn't be that brilliant because you could probably save the rook and still save the knight level. It wasn't worth being brilliant
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 😭😭😭
I reached mine at 500 I was so proud and now it means nothing 😢
he isn't saying that brilliant moves meant nothing
@@Takashi..... Lol. You had to explain.
@@JajaofAbuja bruh he isn't saying brilliant move are not brilliant he is just saying that some brilliant move does nothing
@@JajaofAbuja also every brilliant move does something good for future or in present as you can see at the bishop brilliant move is does benefit to white
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
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5:10 that mmmmm was personal 💀
Did bro just moan?????
When you see the elefant gambit, you know it’s either played by a 500, or it’s just Hikaru disrespecting his opponent
your english teacher must be giving you alot of blunders
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!"
as you should
THE ROOOOOOK jumps the king and he moves two which is cool and now I'm safe badabing badaboom
as the chess god intended
I remember I once got a brilliancy from castling, because I wanted to prevent a pawn from becoming a queen. I found the match recently and now it's only an excellent move.
My first ever brilliant move was castling as well. I just played it because I didn’t know what else to do lmaooo
Not only is the algorithm for brilliant moves connected to the ELO of the player, the estimated ELO at the end of the game is as well. For example, take the game Magnus played a couple weeks ago that estimated he played at a 3400-level. If you copy the PGN and remove the ELO for both players from it and run it through the Game Review again, it will say he played at a 2500-level.
Yes the Estimated elo is connected to players elo but *no* brilliant moves are not
I tried playing games (that other higher and lower players had brilliant move in) move by move from 0 and it still gave me the same result
I LOVE YOU!!! FINALKY SOMEONE WH UNDERSTANDS I'M TIRED OF SEEING NOOBS FLEXING THEIR BRILLIANT MOVES THAT ARE JUST DISCOVER ATTACKS AND THEN SAYING “OH LOOK STOCKFISH THINKS IM -- ELO OMG”
If the estimated elo is tied to your existing elo... Doesn't that kind of defeat the point?
@@firstlast8858 Exactly
@@ahmedsalah-vt1mt from what elo?
When I analyze the game, half the time the brilliant moves aren’t even the best move. Brilliant moves result in a lower evaluation for me a lot.
"Suddenly you're barely better, but then your opponent blunders all their pieces and they lose anyway" - Levi 2023
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
Great move
It also gives the bishop a view of the knights current position.
I also see checkmate im pretty sure
On this part 2:28
Still, you're blundering a rook
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.
It is prob elo based but every time that u run a game review,even of the same game the results can change slightly
@@thyblackpanthertrue it once said I made zero blunders in a game but later changed to one
@@bigfootsburneraccount9160 yeah i frequently finish games and it's like "SIX BLUNDERS" and then i open review and it's like "0 blunders 4 mistakes :)"
The higher the rating the harder brilliant moves are to attain
Im only 400 and never got any but I got a lot of great moves
Levy never fails to make us unexist. Edit: how did i get 1.7k likes lol
Pin of shame before it's even pinned?
@@ΣωτηρίαΠαπαλέξη-η2δno
Pin of unexisting
Pin of disappointment
Pin of shame?
I get brilliant on Mouse Slips
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MY MOUSE!!
And mangus sacrificed....THE MOUSEEE!
your mouse is a gm
Relatable
12:30 "If a grown man started reciting things you would call the police" 🤣🤣
i think pawn push is brilliant because it allows you safely remove your more active piece from the corner(the knight) to safety while ignoring your less active piece(the rook)
8:04 BISHOP B2222222......😂😂😂
man I can't 😂😂
BISHOP BEE TWOOOOOOO
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.
I think there should be one additional level of !!! and ???. A move like Kasparov’s should be “legendary” and quite literally be nearly impossible to achieve for a human. ??? should be any incredibly obvious blunder that throws away an otherwise completely winning game into a now easily lost one.
that's what brilliant moves were before an update
@@64chess Instead of inflating even more categories those legendary moves you mentioned should be brilliant instead. Like a 0.0001 percent stuff.
At the end of the day it's an algorithm it will never be fully accurate and precise. For example I sacrificed a bishop in the hopes my opponent would take with the queen and not the king which made sense due to not castling yet, allowing me to get a fork on the king and queen. The computer regarded my bishop sacrifice as an inaccuracy. You see.
@@JC-ox8yl trading a bishop for revoking your opponent's castling rights isn't always a good deal, I'd say it rarely is
The best guess I have for the last brilliant move is that it provides an avenue for the knight to escape.
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6:45 nice arrow bro
"Oh hey, I got my first brilliant move-"
Levy: BRILLIANT MOVES ARE A LIE.
I can only think of 2 possible reasons the pawn push was brilliant. 1. It gives the knight in the corner a protected escape square. 2. It relieves the queen of an attacked piece. If the pawn stayed there and black pushed a different pawn, after bxa8, Qxa8, black loses that pawn.
One time I played Queen to G3 and got a brilliant, and for some reason people began throwing gold coins on my board. Weird stuff.
Hey i think someone stole your story im not sure who tho
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22:15 is a brilliant move because knight is no longer trapped and is able to escape
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.
I think the last brilliant move is considered as such, cause it provides a safe escape for the knight
Thats what Im sayin
5:09 bro Levy what is that sound💀
💀 *SUS* 💀
6:45 Black wants to develop the rook by teleporting
I had two brilliants in my life, one was me just sacking a knight for fun and the other was me sacking my queen for a checkmate that I got
I think the bishop a6 one was meant to be the follow-up to it, not the move itself
I think part of the algorithm is that brilliant moves are moves that are given as *terrible* moves by the engine on a shallow search depth but then turn out to be the best one for that scenario at a much greater depth. It's trying to mimic how humans see great moves, ones that look unintuitive or just bad at first glance but then turn out to be amazing when you think them through.
Love your content, you shouldn’t quit you’ve inspired so many people to play chess including me
But you're a basketball fanatic!😂
He won’t quit. He makes too much money from yt
@@aldocort3418 but I like chess too lol
@@aldocort3418 So is Levy
@@aldocort3418what’s the problem with b-ball?
8:05 I think the brilliancy there was that the bishop sees g7 at 8:56. If it wasn't on b2, then Re8 could be met by ...Nc7, Qxf7 Kh8, since Qxg7 mate is only possible because the bishop is on b2.
Bishop seeing g7 is a positional advantage and not a "out of the box" idea, so it def doesnt deserve the brilliant annotation
I don't know what that sequence of moves is, because for example there is not a knight that sees c7, but Bb2 also blocks Bd4 which threatens a rook.
8:03 the way he said "BISHOP B2OOOOOOOOOOOO"
😂😂😂😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
“If you’re opponent has brain damage” 12:53
Idea for game 2 @ 8:33 : Bb2 is brilliant because the following moves are Bxf7+, unpinning your rook and allowing the queen to develop into the game, and because black lost the queen, white gets a massive advantage. Bb2 is developing the dark squared bishop and blocking an attack on the rook, so that black has no counterplay against Bxf7+ (Kh8 is bad because it lines up with the bishop on b2)
A 1600 elo play somehow managed to do a better rook sac than levy has. I DIDNT EVEN KNOW THAT WAS POSSIBLE
I swear I am 1900 and still shocked that 1600 has found such a move, insane
8:00 *Gotham then proceeds to get his inner caveman and say* BISHOP B2!!!!!!
7:58 "f4 hanging your king is still better" like wtf 😭🤝🏻
21:12 I can’t explain the brilliant move rating, but I can say it does 2 things:
1) protects the active knight and gives it a space to escape from the corner.
2) It is a passed pawn that would limit the mobility of the king.
Ironically, in an analysis, the recommended move for white is Bishop g3. I really can’t explain it.
The last brilliant move was probably because it helps the knight escape from being trapped, Knight to c2 and then move out of there because pawn protects that knight which means king can’t take? Idk I’m thinking it out as a 560 ELO myself
this would make sense... if the rook wasnt hanging on a8 lol
I was thinking maybe like ignore the bishop taking your rook. Move your bishop c3 to sacrifice the knight take to push your b pawn to c3 and then push that pawn up to c2 check then d2 check protected by Queen and guarantee a promotion?
as a 4850 elo I can confirm thats a brilliant move, yes bcause the knight is more valuable to supress the opponent's king in the future,, even me I will let my opponent take the rook, cause i dont need the rook in that position,, already winning position,, the white's bishop is a valuable defense for white and will make black's attack take more time for winning,, so just trade it with rook
Imo the point is actually Qf6, which hits the bishop on f2 and the b2 square, allowing Qb2 with tempo. White is essentially getting mated.
@@NandaArtnesta totally legit elo
Brilliant moves are moves where you sacrifice material while it is the best move according to the engine. Check the game analysis and also, the evaluation doesn't drop on that move.
that time when you, 900 elo rated, sacrifice a queen in order to get a backrank mate with a rook... that was the first brilliant I achieved knowing what I was doing (I had plenty of them but they were random knight moves for position).
21:13 as a chess player that has 300 elo i would also play this move to protecty knight.
I think the last move is brilliant somthing to do with bringing the knight and checkmating soon after
6:36 - i really didn't misheard it. He actually said asshole instead of castles hahahhahahahhaha
levy may not be pregnant but he never fails to deliver
may
This comment may not be original, but it never fails to make us laugh!
@@aldocort3418 nah
Touch grass, please!
@@aldocort3418 your sense of humor is very bad
For the brilliant move in the fourth game the olgorithm count Ba6 as a bishop sacrifice hence counting it as a brilliancy
8:05 bruh Levy tryna flex his muscles and be Hulk 🤣🤣🤣
2:06
"In this position, white played the move, ROO-"
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21:35 not only it puts an important pawn on a safer square, it protects the knite.
I think it was supposed to be a Very good move (!) than briliand (!!)
22:16 Their silence is deafening
Levy is revealing his real identity of a greek god with that new cut 👀
I got a brilliant move for just playing the fried liver, that’s when I knew the metrics were broken
7:59 "f4 hanging your KING is still better for white"
12:03 legendary mcdonald comment lol
22:41 I think I've worked it out: opens the diagonal for the bishop.
Even better: it opens the diagonal for the queen. Imagine you had a queen on b2. White would be slaughtered. d3 allows you to play Qf6, attacking the bishop on f2. If the bishop moves or is defended, you play Qb2! and white is getting mated or losing everything. It's a nice move, actually.
I see what you mean. But black still was already winning. And the bishob would not help in mating
You should still do the 50 year old man who beat hikaru and magnus! That will be great
agreed
Yeah agreed 👍
thats probably about vishy anand, boring
He should DO HIM? 🤨
@@FranXiT 💀
the algorithm probably detects if you sacrifice a piece and it just so happens to be the best (or 2nd best) move
I love how at 19:53 Levy makes the statement, "And now we have a degree of stability." That killed me.🤣🤣
13:29 My favorite part of a chess game, when my opponent gets diarrhea in the middle of a match
I once got three brilliant moves in a game , two of which were pawn moves and the third was an unintentional rook sacrifice but the only move i really calculated thoroughly trapping the queen and winning it losing a bishop in the plan
i never get tired of your videos, and the blunders the players do, the brilliants... just keep up the good wok man
It'd be more fair to only give a brilliancy if you follow it up. Even if you're winning, an amazing move is still amazing.
2:46 3:02 And he sacrificed... THE ROOOOOOK!
I received over 20 brilliant moves before reaching 1000, just 6 months after i started playing. Half of these i didn't bother saving because i felt like i did not deserve it, although i do think it would be funny to somehow re-visit them one day.
Thanks for letting us pick the next video!
BTW I had my first brilliant move recently (700 rated) and it turned out to be a placeholder move while I spend more time thinking.
I did not use that brilliant move to its full potential.
I once played a game against an opponent who played a "brilliant" move against me, the game was a hard struggle with low king safety for the both of us and a lot of loose pieces. I actually won that game and thought I would get a brilliant move after finding a beautiful tactical defense, where after my king was checked I sacced my knight to force the queen on an akward square and expose her to several tactics if he chose to take the it. For some reason that move ws considered a ok move by the engine at low depth, and tried to argue that my opponent was better after keeping the pin on the knight and trying to expand on the king side. After analysing the line, it appear that the plan actually went nowhere. What's more the engine said at much higher depth that my move was the only winnng one for me.
"If a grown man did it, you would call the police."
12:20 gotham just start YAPPING
I guess 22:04 is a brilliant move because it's enabling the night at the corner to escape safetly because the king cannot capture it while it is protecting by a pawn
I am a long time physical board player who just started playing online in the last week. I usually play good with no blunders and few mistakes. I was wondering why I never get brilliant moves and this explains it really well.
solid moves doesn’t get brilliant sign.
Thank you! You’ve taken my elo from barely 500 to almost 1300
the comment- @9:18 "..its like a pinball machine ..." Made me laugh 😆
Well now my brilliant sacrifices mean potentially nothing
Just yesterday had a brilliant I didn't quite understand in the position, it seems interesting now to look at this as how to evaluate on how it applies in the actual game, thanks Levy!
I love the part when Levy said "it's bozo time" and bozoed all over the board
When I saw that I bozoed all over my room
moai🗿
Theory #1
Maybe the algorithm evaluates moves based on the game as a whole. So, the bishop moving to A6 in that one example was deemed brilliant because it later lead the charge into White's collapse maybe?
Theory #2
It factors in your ELO, like Levy said.
Theory #3
The computer sees some of the craziest branches of theory that no normal human would play, so brilliance is seen from an omnipotent standpoint
I remember when my friend was about to lose a rook and offered OFFERED for them to take a bishop instead and got a brilliant. ????
The thing we love about levy is
*”biShOp b2!,!!¡¡”*
12:35 “If a girl and man did it you’d call the police.” Lol levy
He said "If a grown man did it......" not Girl and man
My 300 elo friend once got a brilliant move for taking a pawn that was "guarded" by a knight (which was very obviously pinned to the queen) and yes the guy took with the knight and lost their queen
Brilliant moves are the single greatest achievements in my life, dont do this to me
Bishop to B2 was how he set up the mating net. He used his bishop pair very well from what it seemed.
21:20: It is probably a brilliant move because you are losing material with the rook and bishop trade on a1, yet it is still the best move according to the computer.
Levy’s basically the Dana White of chess
You can always rely on Levy to make you flabbergasted with his stare and the haircut
How are you everywhere
levy has the most devious, scrumptious, vietnamese war, and flabbergasted haircut.
truly enough power to start the taiping rebellion.
@@Begula17 that’s what I’m saying
11:55 is actually an outstanding move imo
I agree.
21:30 The plan is to not even take back when the bishop takes and just plant your queen on f6 and threaten checkmate. Granted it's mate in 9 so the 300's would never find it, but it is a forced checkmate rook sacrifice. The one and only response is to bring the bishop back to f3 after capturing the rook, then queen b2, knight g2, pawn takes knight check, king moves to e1, queen takes knight check, king takes pawn, queen takes rook. This series leaves white down on the exchange 5 points, two knights and a rook for rook and pawn, just to avoid mate. Of course its still mate in like 30 moves, but plenty of time for another blunder to swing the game all the way back.
"One of them is not even 600. I'm simply rounding up..." - LOL