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One of the biggest ego boosts when analysing a game on chess.com’s analysis engine is when the computer rates one of your moves as “brilliant”! This happened in a game I played earlier today. Although it started off well, I lost my advantage from the opening with some inaccurate play in the midgame. Then I managed to head off a potentially devasting attack by the opponent with this move that the bot rated as brilliant.

I’d like to imagine that the psychological impact of the brilliant move was what led to my opponent hanging their piece with a one move blunder. Although it might be wild and messy, in the realm of beginner-intermediate chess, creating complexity and launching multiple threats can be effective even if the moves are objectively bad. I hope you enjoyed this video, and thanks for watching!

Game on chess.com: https://www.chess.com/game/live/32953194527

[Event "Live Chess"]
[Site "Chess.com"]
[Date "2021.12.11"]
[Round "?"]
[White "vitualis"]
[Black "ldebes"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "B23"]
[WhiteElo "1124"]
[BlackElo "1166"]
[TimeControl "1800"]
[EndTime "1:36:59 PST"]
[Termination "vitualis won by resignation"]

1. e4 c5 2. Nc3 a6 3. f4 e6 4. a4 Be7 5. Nf3 Bh4+ 6. Nxh4 Qxh4+ 7. g3 Qd8 8. d4 cxd4 9. Qxd4 Nf6 10. Be2 Nc6 11. Qf2 h6 12. Be3 O-O 13. e5 Nh7 14. O-O-O Qc7 15. Bb6 Qb8 16. Bd3 f5 17. exf6 Nxf6 18. f5 exf5 19. Qxf5 d5 20. Qg6 Qd6 21. Rhf1 Ne5 22. Rxf6 Nxd3+ 23. Qxd3 Rxf6 24. Qxd5+ Qxd5 25. Nxd5 Rf2 26. Bxf2 1-0