How to Make Brilliant Moves in Chess ‼️

Today we're going to learn how to make brilliant moves in chess. Are you fired up and ready to go to run? Because I am. Have you ever imagined yourself being in Sherlock Holmes shoes and be detective? Well, my friends, today we're going to be detectives and we're going to be Sherlock Holmes because we're going to spot brilliance, find brilliance and make brilliance, guys. Let us read the definition of brilliant moves according to chess.com. Brilliant moves and great moves are always the best or nearly best move in the position. You see, always or nearly best move. But they are also special in some way. We replace the old brilliant algorithm with a simple, simpler definition. A brilliant move is always when you find a good p sacrifice. Take heart, p sacrifice. If you want to make a brilliant move in chess.com, my dear friends, it always, always have to be a sacrifice. You might say, what does sacrifice mean? Hold your thought, let us finish the sentence and I'm going to show you. There are some other conditions like you should not be in a bad position after a brilliant move and you should not be completely winning even if you had not found the move. Also, we are more generous in defining a p sacrifice for newer players compared with those who are light players. That means that beginners with lower rating get brilliant easier than higher rated players. Now, what does that mean, p sacrifice? Well, for those who are new to the game, those who know already, let us remember what is p sacrifice. As you can see, the value of the pieces is very, very important in chess. A pawn is worth 1 point. Pony is worth 3 points. Bishop is worth 3 points. Rookie 5 points and Queen 9 points. The king is not emulated because it cannot be captured or sacrificed. It can be made. So brilliant move is when you sacrifice a pony for a pawn. Bishop for a pawn. Rookie for a bishop or a pawn. Queen for rookie, bishop, pony or a pawn. When you give higher value piece for lower value piece. For example, you can sacrifice your queen without taking anything and that queen can be taken. It's still brilliant if you win or hold the balance of the position. So, once again, let's summarize. A brilliant can only be a p sacrifice and a brilliant should always, always, always give you a winning position or keep the balance of the position. You can be brilliant for a draw or brilliant to equalize the position. Engine gives evaluation based on numerical assignment. These evaluations are directly correlated to chess piece values. For example, a plus 1 evaluation means that white has 1 point. If you make the best move sacrifice and you're down half a pawn, it's not going to be a brilliant, it's probably going to be a great move. Once again, brilliants always give you a winning position or keep the balance of the position. And, of course, engine often gives an evaluation with decimal like 0, 1.5. It should be interpreted as black being ahead by 1 and half pawns. So, after finding out what is brilliant and remembering the piece values, let's start with the brilliants. Now, before we start, you might say, who the **** are you? Why should I trust you? I'm WittyAlien. I'm a Finneganzen master. Even though I don't consider myself like science because I play way worse than normal science. I'm most known for Inventing the Alien Gambit, as we know from some games, and for making brilliants. I have a lot of shorts, making brilliant, brilliant, brilliant moves, and that's pretty much about me, my friends. I have played overall 18k bullet games, that's bullet, and 11k blitz games. And I have made overall 7k brilliants in bullet time control. Overall, in all time controls, I have around 9k brilliants. But don't quote me on that. I'm not sure about this. But I've seen all the top chess players, I have more brilliants than them. Because I play much more than them, and I play less stronger players than them, of course. So, you can trust me when I explain how to find brilliants, how to make brilliants happen, because I'm very, very experienced in making brilliants, and I make a living making brilliants. Let's start with brilliants. We're going to see how to make brilliants with a queen, rookie, bisou, pony, and pawn, king, and brilliant castle. Let's start with queen sacrifice, my dear friend. As you can see, I'm playing with my dear friend Gu. BlackWildstone has been playing king f8, which was a mistake, but everything else was already losing. And now, here you can pause the video and try to find a brilliant. You can see that the g8 square is very, very weak, right? If you put the rookie there, it's checkmate, because the pawn is protecting those two light squares. So if the rookie goes here, it's checkmate. Hmm, but there is a pawn, right? How can we deflect this pawn? And now here, white plays brilliant, queen takes f6, brilliant. You might say, what the ****, why is it brilliant? Explain right now. It's brilliant, my dear friend, because we give a queen for bisou. Remember, nine points, three points. So we give higher piece value, or lower value piece, which leads to checkmate. So that's brilliant, right? We go queen takes f6, cleanly sacrifice the only move we're ready to take, and then go g8. So you see, guys, it's brilliant, because we sacrifice a piece, and it's winning. In our next example, we have a pawn against me. As you can see, our dear friends who are Alien Gambit lovers. This was from Alien Gambit. Here, you can pause the video and try to find the brilliant. Now, you might be playing this and say, why is there a brilliant move here? You can see that this is very nice, but our queen is being under attack. So if he plays an attacking pawn e7, our queen is lost. So what should we do? Double check comes to rescue. We go, oh, yeah, fake, and that is double check. The most deadly thing in chess, because after bishop takes f5, you cannot cut out the king. When you double check, you should always move the king. That's why it's a great move, because it's the only move to give advantage. King here, and now we go queen h7, sacrificing the queen. You might say, why is there a brilliant? First of all, it's a sacrifice. Second of all, it leads to winning position. Even though we're not taking any material, we are making the king slaughter it. You have to take with the pawn. You cannot take with the king, because there's a pawn. You take with the pawn, and the pawn is mate. You see, beautiful, romantic chess checkmate, because the pawn is on h7, and they can no longer go on h7. So, we use the queen sacrifice to brilliant, and deflect, and they are checkmate. That is why it's brilliant, my friends, because we sacrifice the queen, even though we didn't take any material. In our next example, we have me against this one from person Burhan. Black's last move was f5. That was during the board game. And now, you might say, what is this position? Black king is very, very weak, but Black is somehow holding. You can play bishop takes c6, take, take, take, and still take c6 and enjoy an advantage, but still, this is a beautiful move than that. You can pause the video and try to find the brilliant. In this position, White plays drop takes c6, sacrificing the rook. You might say, what the **** is this move? This is called a chain sacrifice. We sacrifice the rook to free the a2-g8 diagonal, and free the d7 square. So, this is called deflection, and removing of the defender of the diagonal. Black has to take, otherwise, a d8-d6 check will happen. Take, and then we go bishop takes c6 check. Don't remove the scorer with the rook, because there is a queen. Now, we go d8-d7. You see, the bishop is no longer on d7. And now, we can play this beautiful four. So, that was a very, very easy brilliant guide. We sacrifice the rook for a pawn, to clear the d-pawn, and get our material right away. And, of course, it's brilliant, because you give a rook for a bishop. Don't be afraid to give pieces, higher value pieces for lower value pieces, if you can checkmate, gain huge positional advantage, or gain your material back in some moves. After this video, my brothers and sisters, you can go to the ladder, a.k.a. the pool. You can go to the ladder and play some chess, and try to not be afraid to give higher value pieces for lower value pieces, if that gives you an advantage, or saves the game. In our next example, we have me against Boris Paz. Very wonderful person. Very wonderful chess player. And you can see here that after a6, I have played h4. And after castle, you might say, what the **** is this move, h4? Take a look, my brothers and sisters. Usually, brilliants are not self-made. They don't fall from the sky, and you make them. You have to work for them. Fight for them. And believe that you can make a brilliant. And only then you can be a brilliant. Maybe in the beginning level, brilliants just happen, but when you get more rating, and it's more difficult to make brilliants, you have to prepare for them. That was the idea of h4. I'm waiting for them to castle, and then brilliant. You can pause the video, and find out what happens after castle. In this position, I have the audacity, I have to go, bash out the xh7, stop it, baby, sacrifice the bishop. That was the idea of h4. Now you can see the idea of the move h4. After take, you can take with check. And after here, you just go Qh5, and the king is getting mated. There's just no way the king can survive. And if they don't take the king g8, they go Qh5, there's no defense. Qh7, if they go king here, then you just go Qxh5. Check this guy, this guy, castle this guy, and then you just mate. So, after take, they have to play here, then pg5. King g8, my opponent played Qh5. They took, took, and now you see? He joins the attack. F5 to escape with the king, don't go check, because the king is running. So you go g6, trap the king in the cage, and the chess away, and that is all she wrote. Black cannot escape checkmate. If you know patterns, it's called the Greek gift sacrifice. You go h4, preparing sacrifice here, and Bxh7. The romance is out of this world, my friends. And now, next example, we have me against Phoenix Rises from Brazil. And now, you might say, okay, we saw a queen sacrifice brilliant for checkmate, we saw a rook sacrifice for gain back the material, we saw bishop sacrifice for checkmate. How can you make pawn brilliants? How can you make king brilliants or castle brilliants? Because you can sacrifice, like, you sacrifice a pawn, but what is less than a pawn, right? How can you make a brilliant while castling? Or how can you make a king brilliant? You cannot sacrifice the king, right? Take care, my friends. I will explain to you how you can make pawn brilliants. In this position, you can pause the video and find the best move for white here. In this position, white goes h4. Stop it, baby. Sacrificing the pony. You might think, where, where, where? Here, my dear friends, the pony is hanging. So, that's how you can make pawn brilliants. You have a piece hanging. A high-value piece is hanging. You ignore the threat and you go h4, brilliant. Easy take, haha, took your pony. There you go, this beautiful magic move. Bishop g5, attacking the queen. White attacking the bishop. f6 to attack this guy. Then you go queen takes b1, 3. Then you go check this guy, bishop b7. And then you go hxg5. And here, even though the position is equal, I will take white any day. Black pieces are very far from the action. Rxh7 is on the agenda. This pin is very nasty. You can hope with the pony. You can play with the bishop and the position is equal, but it's dark for us. 2 plus 2 equals 5. No one knows how. So, that's why it's brilliant. It gives you a very good position. My pawn played h5, walking out the run of my pawn. And now, another brilliant here goes. Rxh6, this is called exchange sacrifice. One of the most common sacrifice, my dear friends. You might say, what the **** is exchange sacrifice? When you give a rookie for a pony, or a bishop, a rookie is 5 points, a bishop and a pony are 3 points, right? So, you sacrifice the rookie for a lower value piece. But in this position, those pawns are crumpled. g5 square is absolutely weak. You can hope with the pony, hope with the pony, or hope with the bishop. And this is very difficult to defend, this pawn. And here, white is much, much better. You see? Sacrificing a pony and then sacrificing the exchange to get out the right square bishop and the variable with 10 pieces. And now, next example, we have White-Alien against Snail. The last move was Qxf5. And now, you can pause the video and try to find the brilliant. What defines a brilliant? Sacrificing for checkmate. Sacrificing for advantage. Sacrificing higher piece value for lower value piece. So, in this position, Black plays Qxg5, sacrificing the queen for protecting the empty square while deflecting the queen on g5. Qxg5 and a very big pawn. So, take her. One piece, basically. The game continues like this. Here, here, here, here, here. And now, here, the pawn is 6. You see? This pawn is a monster. It's a very strong piece. You can play something like Rxg5, take, take, take, take, and White is back in the game because those guys are very, very strong. So, in this position, you can pause the video and try to find the brilliant. In this position, I played Rxg6, sacrificing the rook. You might say, what the **** is this move? Exchange sacrifice. This pawn was too strong. We remove the White's most active piece while using the pinned take. And now, pawn in g5. You cannot take the pawn because I take the king. And now, Black has two minor pieces for the rook. The king is too weak. And Black's coordination is absolutely fantastic. And we end up winning the game like here, here, here, here. Now, what? There's another brilliant here. You can pause the video and find it. Pawn in f2. Clean and sacrifice. Not taking anything, but we give a free pawn. Ha-ha, take your pawn. No, baby. Bishop g2. You see? Constant brilliants. We have three brilliants in this game, my friends, in the whole game. In our next example, we have a little puzzle for you guys. You can pause the video and find two brilliants here. At least, the fourth checkmate. I'm just going to give you a hint. It ends with another checkmate. In this position, White has the audacity of having to go. Pawn in g5. Sacrifice the pawn. Oh, Black only moves to take. There you go. Black only moves. You don't go here, because that's what she wrote. So, Black only moves to go here. You don't go g4 here, because you just resign with shame. But you go. Rook takes h5. Sacrifice the rook in the chain. B takes h5. Finish with b4. That was the idea of the rook sacrifice, to clear the b1-h7 diagonal for the bishop. f5. And now, where is the checkmate? e takes f6. That is what she wrote. Beautiful checkmate, you see? We sacrifice a pawn to open the rook. We sacrifice a rook to open the diagonal. And now, the reverse checkmate. What more can I say than, teamwork makes the dream work. In this position, in this example, guys, is the most beautiful checkmate I have ever played. Three months after streaming, I played a game in Liches. I played a friend from Malaysia. Here, White is completely winning. Everything is winning, but they played only using move, which is rook d7. You might say, what the ****? How is this losing? You can pause the video and try to find a beautiful romantic mate in four. In this position, we go. I went pawn in g3. King h2. Pawn in the ace-high pawn, here. Pawn in g3, here. Now, my friends, if you're queen, you're getting mated. You're getting just mated. There's nothing you can do. So, what can you do here? What if I tell you, you could make brilliance while underpromoting? You might say, what the ****? How can you make brilliance while underpromoting? Usually, you promote a queen, which is nine points. How about you promote a rook, which is five points? A bishop, three points. A pawn, which is three points. That is actually a brilliance, because you're choosing a lower piece value than a higher piece value. So, it's kind of a sacrifice. In this position, I played pawn df1. And ladies and gentlemen, this is checkmate. Look at the checkmate. Look at the coordination between the pieces. That is all she wrote. The king is checkmated. The only move to win is to make underpromotion brilliance. Checkmate. Stop it, baby. So, that's why you don't have auto-queen. The only move to win. Beautiful checkmate, guys. Now, next examples, we have me against Elsers. Wonderful person from Italy. In this position, guys, we played... We can pause the video and try to find a brilliant move, which is castle. And you might say, what the **** is this move? Yes, brilliance can be castle, just like pounce. You castle while having a piece hanging. In this position, the pawn is hanging, my dear friend. So, we go... But we ignore the threat by castling. You might say, what the **** is this move? I just take and then go rook e1 against sacrificing the pawn. That was the idea. You castle and then go rook e1. And after bishop e7 to close this line, then you just take. Pawn f6 to develop the pieces, you just take and go bishop c5. It's all about the e-file. That's it. Those pieces are lined up. There is just no defense. So, after rook e1, queen takes e3, go bishop d3, closing the queen takes e1 while delivering checks. That's all she wrote. Don't play here, because there is queen takes e1. But they go here, I went bishop c5 and we end up winning the game spectacularly by checkmating. So, that's how you can make castle brilliance. By having a piece hanging and the best move in position is castle. In our next example, we have this wonderful game against Solary, against Rustu. As you can see, looks like Becky is winning, right? Even though white has a pawn here, this guy is running and there is nothing you can do to stop it. Just take, take, take. And if you go check here, there is king g2. King g4, h2. Queen f3, just queen. So, there is how can white stop this pawn? If you just run, then you just run. Run, run, run. And there is queen c1, that's what she wrote. Here is how you change. So, in this position, you can bounce the bishop and find a brilliant move. King h4, stop it, baby. King brilliance. You might say, what the ****, how can you make king brilliance? You can make king brilliance if you leave a piece hanging. Just like the pawn brilliance, you have a piece hanging. Castle brilliance, you have a king piece hanging. And king brilliance, you have a piece hanging. Here, draw. You see? Brilliant for a draw. Not winning. King g2, you just go pawn g3. You go c5. h2, here you are winning. But king is playing g3 square. So, that's it. You can make king brilliance like that when you have a piece hanging. In our next example, we have a game against the good king, Pio, and against me. I played this romantic game yesterday on stream and this is the most brilliant game I have played in my life because words speak louder than actions. In this position, ahead of us, you have to go rook takes a3, sacrificing the rookie, a3, what the **** is this move? If they take, you go freaky deaky forky. If I take, they go queen a5. If they take, with the pawn, I go pawn takes a2, queen a5 here, queen a3, king b1, and pawn takes a3, that's all she wrote. They cannot take the rookie, they go bishop takes g6, then we go queen a5, sacrificing the rookie again. Take here, here, checkmate this guy. Here, freaky deaky forky, they cannot take the rookie, they play a3, try to kick, attack everything, but here again, goes rook takes a3, sacrifice the rookie, again brilliant, three consecutive brilliants, my brothers and sisters, haha, no baby, check, checkmate. So they cannot take the rookie, they go queen e2, to free the king, now comes another brilliant, pawn a3, oh my god, this is so romantic, that's why I play chess. Brilliant, brilliant, clean and sacrifice, I don't want the king to escape on d2, so we go pawn e3, we go check, the king escapes right, so we sacrifice the pawn here, and rookie, one checkmate. 4 consecutive brilliant in a Bull Ring game my friends, that' s my most consecutive brilliants ever. Started with rook takes e3, queen a5, rook takes a3, and pawn in d3! Beautiful game. Now you might say, how do you spot brilliants? How do you make your position clear? to be brilliant wise I'll give you some tips Tip number one, develop your pieces if you have more developed pieces than your opponent tactics usually work as the white chess master once said tactics comes in position of strength so develop your pieces, you might even sacrifice some pounds so that you can lead in development identify hanging pieces if you identify hanging pieces, tactics work because those pieces are not defended and they are tactical vulnerable checkmate the king if all your pieces are attacking their king and his opponent pieces are not defending the king you can sacrifice some pieces so you can trap the king and checkmate it always, always be a word for brilliance a white chess master once said chess is 99% tactics my friend so always, always be a word for brilliance even in the most difficult position ever I'm gonna show you a game, my best game ever in chess.com again Grandmaster Joy the person with most brilliance in chess.com I believe I'm in second place, I've checked everything for now I've seen I'm second place my friends but don't quote me on that there might be some wonderful person with 400 rating that has more brilliance than me but from TopChessPress I've seen that I'm top 2 so it was a game in the ladder I started with e4 c6 Caro-Kann defense d4 d5 Pawn in g2, take, take, pawn in f6 Pawn in g5, alien Gambit my dear friend h6, now alien Gambit this is the Gambit that we invented together king takes f7, we go pawn in f3 king is very weak, light squares are very very weak and this critical e5 square is imperative they play pawn in bd7, I want bishop d3 b6 castle here, you see I'm pawning down, I have lead in development and king is very very weak so I'm using this to my advantage rook e8, they're trying to make artificial castle pawn in e5, my pawn in 2, take, take now queen h5 here, and don't boo spam the brilliant emote and pause the video bishop takes h6 taxes, constitution, strength, all your pieces are active apart from the rook, which you will join probably and those guys without respect are sleeping they're not active so you go pawn, bishop takes h6 if they take, you go here, here, checkmate here, here, here, here, here, here, here checkmate, here, checkmate so they cannot take they play my dear pawn play pawn f8, protecting those guys and you go bishop takes g7 sacrifice the bishop again king here and swing with rook e8 if you have lead in development and your pawn pieces are not active you can do stuff like that, you sacrifice the house here but there's no defense, pawn g6, rook g4 here, rook takes g6, here, here, here, here ladies and gentlemen, we checkmated super duper strong grandmaster for the philippines with alien gambit, while doing 2 brilliants and that's it my dear friends that's it I hope I didn't speak that fast, in case I did I'm really sorry, I'm working on it this is a beautiful game, this is a romantic game I don't know how to explain this feeling when you go to game review and you see so many brilliants, for example the game analysis is loading and as soon as you see BAM! 27 brilliants my friends your heart becomes butterflies you're happy, you want to play more chess make more brilliants and just have fun that's why we play chess, without your respect we're not Magnus Carlsen, we're not candidates we play chess for fun, we don't make a living out of chess so when you go in the ladder, play chess try to make a brilliant, you go to game review and TADA! 27 brilliants you become happy that was the video guys, I hope you enjoyed it any feedback in the comments, how to do better, I would love to listen don't forget to wash your hands, spread peace, love and happiness and I can't wait to see you in the next video peace, and much love by the way my dear friends, thanks so much for watching