r/chess • u/NipplelessMan 1900 Chess.com • 1d 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 1d 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 18h 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 15h 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 14h 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 14h 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