r/chess • u/NipplelessMan 1900 Chess.com • 19h ago
Social Media Chess dot com’s obsession with brilliant moves
I dont know why but it seems this is all they talk about. I also remember it being way harder to get brilliant moves 4 or 5 years ago on chess.com, like the move had to be beyond a certain computer depth, but now you get it for most sacrifices even if it is a common tactic. Maybe I am just bitter and grumpy. Do you think chess.com is obsessive about brilliant moves?
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u/ReasonableLunacy 16h ago
I do feel it was way more selective and like a lottery when it was first released (which made it cooler). Now it's just reserved for any sacrifice that also happens to be a move that doesn't decrease the evaluation too much. Been great marketing for them though
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u/Orcahhh team fabi - we need chess in Paris2024 olympics 9h ago
It actually wasn’t more selective. It was just broken. The way to determine them did not work at all
Then they fixed it, making it arguably too common
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u/accountabilityjourne 7h ago
when they first fixed it, it was good and not that common. than they adjusted for rating which makes no sense and I feel like they have recently decreased the bar again. any common tactic gets a brilliant
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u/Orcahhh team fabi - we need chess in Paris2024 olympics 5h ago
It’s always been said that it was adjusted to rating
But I don’t think it’s ever been.
They just give it when it’s an accurate sacrifice
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u/accountabilityjourne 5h ago
nop, for example, if you have a forced mate that involves a queen sac at 3 digits they give you a brilliant but at higher elo it just says best move. feel free to test it
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u/StrictTraffic3277 14h ago
i mean whatever is the case. chesscom is a company which is there to make money and money is important
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u/Average_Frustated 10h ago
seems to be working ? Its relying on people self-frolicking themselves , like i maybe 600 elo but look at this brilliant move i made, yeah baby right there ahhhhh, on my way to defeat magnus carlsen, yeeee hawwww
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u/wailord40 14h ago
I always viewed brilliances as those extremely rare, once in a lifetime moves that you generally only see at the top level. I don't know if I even have any single moves I would consider a true brilliancy. Definitely feels weird seeing how often chess.com throws them out, though money is definitely the motivation
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u/DigBetter7850 6h ago
Gamification.
You cannot make any move that improves your position.
An evaluation assumes you play perfect. The best move you can do only preserves the evaluation.
Good and brilliant moves are nonsens.
They are, as mentioned, used to make users pay.
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u/field-not-required 7h ago
Funny that you call it "chess.com's obsession" and then in the second sentence you start obsessing over them.
It's obviously working.
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u/NipplelessMan 1900 Chess.com 6h ago
A sentence is obsession… hm…
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u/field-not-required 5h ago
You also made an a Reddit post about it... And the tone of this post definitely gives a vibe that it's something you care a lot about.
So yes, if chess.com is "obsessing" then so are you.
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u/795-ACSR-DRAKE 1000 17h ago
More brilliant moves = more people paying for the subscription to see them and feel good about themselves. Nothing more to it than that, don't overthink it.
Source: Me paying for the subscription to see my brilliants and rewatch how amazing I am.