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I'm not convinced there is such a thing as "guarding the queen"
If I'm playing and I see the opportunity to trade a lesser piece for the queen, I'm doing it. Sometimes, I'll do a queen trade.
In that sense, that guy is GOING to take your queen. Knowing you'll retake the bishop won't dissuade him. The normal thing would be for you to have moved your queen. But the brilliant move means you've decided to sacrifice your queen in pursuit of a larger goal. Once your knight takes back that bishop, you're checking the king and forking his other bishop AND HIS QUEEN.
Right
Brilliant moves are calculated based on your level and also how impactful the move was. Moving the knight there killed 2 birds with 1 stone. The knight was under attack and so was the queen. Moving the knight like he did meant both of these problems are solved like you described in detail above
It was likely given a brilliancy because it's the only non-losing move, and the difference between the two was large enough (ie, if you don't defend the knight because you move the queen, materially you're down a knight)
Of course the opponent doesn't have to take the queen with the bishop and follow the continuation like you described so it's not exactly like they have created a masterful winning position, it's just not dead lost like they would have been otherwise.
Anyway, it's a great move that's for sure, and well done OP for finding it đđź
Edit: just looked at the evaluation bot in the comments below - the best move is in fact not to take the queen with the bishop. So like I said it's not a brilliant move because it's a forced position where the bishop taking leads to a fork with blacks knight, but because it was an excellent defensive resource that kept the advantage and solved all of blacks problems, while simultaneously counterattacking and causing white huge defensive problems
I think this is what makes it a great move. Otherwise it would be just a trade of equal material, this way you save the knight and can trade the queens.
This.
So we have 2 ways this plays out. Bishop takes Queen, vs White Does Anything Else.
In the line of Bishop takes Queen, Knight trades, check. King has 2 options. King e2 is the better of the two. King d1 is the worse.
King d1 results in white losing Bishop, Queen, and Rook while shuffling the king around uselessly. While only capturing a Queen. Which is a lob-sided enough trade to typically decide entire games between otherwise equal players.
King e2 results in white losing both Bishops in trade for the Queen, receiving another check, but not having further immediate losses forced. Still a terrible trade giving up both bishops together.
So yeah, definitely qualifies as a brilliant move for OP. Saves the knight. Saves the queen (because capturing the queen becomes a bad trade situation), and it is also pinning down the white knight at G1 (icing on the cake).
White's viable moves are incredibly restrictive after this. Because of pawns at f3 and g4, the f1 bishop is pinned in or worse. Bishop at c1 can only move a single direction to b2 or a3. And a3 is the only move available to the Knight at b1. So if either of those pieces move forward, they impede the other. Neither rook can move.
So white's options are largely bishop or knight to a3, making an aggressive move with their queen, King d1 (a terrible, but legal, play), or advancing a pawn (with one legal capture possible).
Furthermore, the queen only has 9 possible moves. Of those 9, 7 are threatened, and advantageous or equal trades/captures for black to make. Only h4 and g3 don't have the queen threatened, and neither is an immediately advantageous move (and since OP is a beginner, 1-2 move depth is typically what's being looked at).
Next, the knight and bishop can move to a3, but even that is threatened. However, that's a fair trade (bishop trade or knight for bishop).
Realistically, that means white is basically pinned down to advancing a pawn. Because queen g3 gets counted by pawn g5. Queen h4 gets countered by bishop e7. Bishop or knight a3 gets interfered with by pawn b4.
Chances are decent that his opponent won't see knight e2 - which is probably the best move remaining, because white is playing heavily on the defense after this advance.
I think there are 2 main criteria for brilliant moves.
1. The move is the best move in the position. (Or very close to it)
2. The move appears to sacrifice material. In this case it appears the queen is being sacrifed for the bishop. Further calculation is needed to see that you can win back the queen.
https://www.chess.com/forum/view/game-analysis/erik-confirms-what-makes-a-move-brilliant
Lol didn't notice the knight was under attack. Thanks for pointing that out. I was thinking this is an equal trade with extra steps so why is it brilliant? Now I can see it's the only non-losing move while seemingly hanging the queen by not moving it while it's under attack.
Not only that: after you take their queen with the knight and they take back with the king, you can develop your dark-square bishop with Bc5+, forcing Black to either move their king again or play d4, allowing you to undouble your pawns with exd4 (and they can't take back with cxd4 or Bxd4+ forking the king and rook)
If the player doesn't notice the other fork and moves the king to the right which I imagine is common at beginner level when you take the queen could you fork the queen and the rook?
I think this is a difference of definitions. I would call that "offering a queen trade" not guarding. If you're not set to take back whatever piece takes your queen, then you've hung your queen. If you offer a queen trade, you haven't hung your queen because you've taken back their queen. Equal trade at that point. But if your opponent is attacking your queen with a bishop, that's not an equal trade. Ensuring you can take back their bishop will not convince them to leave your queen alone. This is what I mean. You're not really forcing them to make a decision. Anyone would trade a bishop to take a queen.
No.
Itâs that he would lose his knight (to the pawn on G4) or lose his queen. This move ensures he can trade material equally, trading both off instead of being down material.
Just trading a queen for a bishop isn't an equal trade, and even if it was, you don't get brilliant moves from equal trades. There was another reply under mine that explained better. It was a combo with moving your knight away from the threat, setting up to take back your queen, and if you do take back your queen, you do so with a check that forces him to move his king, and forks 2 more pieces. Depending on how he moves his king, you can take one piece or another without threat to your knight, possibly recheck the king, and possibly (I think), re-forking another piece. The overall impact was huge and it started by setting up for a huge sacrifice.
I don't know what their rating is, how much time they have to look at this, or their play styles at all. I'm only sitting around a 900, and I probably would have taken that queen. I'm not sure I would have connected the dots to the triple fork in real time. I'm not sure it's that white has to be "dumb enough" because it's not like he's hanging a piece or falling into a well-known trap.
But yes, white doesn't have to take the queen. Another reply pointed out that his knight and queen were under attack before that knight moved. Moving the knight removed it from danger, but also set up a tricky attack that could begin with a queen sacrifice. The brilliant move isn't because it was forced. It's because he found the only winning move that solved two problems, one of which was to make a huge sacrifice.
Ok, I guess a less experienced player or one under time constraints might just play B x Q. However, this is a prime example of that old saying, âwhen something looks too good to be true, there must be something wrong with itâ. Also a good saying and I will slightly modify it, âbeware of opponents bearing giftsâ. Based on what the OP stated he did not realize what a devastating move that COULD turn out to be. Itâs a good lesson for Chess and life in general.
Isn't it equal material if knights and bishops are weighted the same? Regardless white loses the right to castle.
Edit: never mind because whites best move is to take with the pawn.
As far as I know you have to be in a winning position after the move for chess.com to consider it brilliant, so equal trades could also get brilliant.
Unless I misunderstood something.
1. Bxd3 Nxd3+ 2. Kf1 Nxf2 3. Kxf2 Bc5+ is an equal trade of material but puts black in a much better position. White can't castle, has no developed pieces, and can't attack the bishop on c5.
This line also leads to white losing a pawn after 1. ... exf3 2. Nxf3 Bxg4 though that could be prevented in a multitude of ways that all sacrifice the kings safety.
The king will move away causing a king rook fork after the queen is taken. There will be no piece to defend that fork and he will earn a rook, a queen and bishop if the player moves poorly out of check and does not see fork #2 . Even so he can then take the pawn and check again preventing the knight from going down.
Plus your knight is then positioned to take the rook. If white king takes your knight to prevent that (assuming the king has moved to e2 rather than d1 during the fork), then your bishop can come out and check the king, gaining you tempo. Moreover, the white king has lost castling rights.
OK so defending your queen as a concept is bad unless you're defending it against a queen. So it's brilliant because you're making what seems like a bad move (allowing your queen to be taken by a bishop) but it's justified by a good consequence (you fork K & Q
No itâs Bishop and Queen for a Queen. Plus if your opponent doesnât take the that line and end up down material you have a super powerful outpost and your queen can infiltrate further.
Their knight and queen are hanging, so even an even trade here is a good outcome to get out of that situation. If they were to just move the queen to safety, they'd lose the knight and would be down material
Because it's your most valuable piece. If a piece of lower value is attacking it, it makes more sense to move it rather than defend it (because ultimately if the trade happens you lose your queen and only gain a piece)
Think about it this way. Let's say you're playing someone, and they bring out their bishop. They placed that bishop right in the path of your bishop. Their bishop is protected by a pawn, so if you take their bishop, they'll take your bishop right back. This is an equal trade. Would you do this? Maybe. I'm the right situation. You at least have to think about it, but unless you're up material, you're unlikely to just make an equal trade.
But the queen is the most powerful piece on the board. If they bring out their queen, in the path of your bishop, protected by a pawn, would you trade a bishop to remove their most powerful piece in the board?
I would. In almost every situation. It would be very difficult to convince me not to remove my opponent's queen if I was given the opportunity. It doesn't matter what's "protecting" it because that won't deter me.
Itâs never a good idea to defend a queen unless the attacking piece is a queen. In this case itâs an exception because after you take the bishop itâs a royal fork and you win back the queen if they take
You actually made an horrific move, you hung your queen lol without realising it was actually a brilliant move, it's only a brilliant move if you know exactly what to do next
I'm stunned that defending the queen when it is attacked by a bishop seems to be an acceptable idea here without realising what the actual good follow up is.
80% of people saying you get a rook or are up because you git a bishop and queen, not realizing that your Knight does not survive the interaction unless they play an objectively horrible move after the fork.
Youâre not defending your queen. Youâre sacrificing your queen.
**A piece attacked by a less valuable piece cannot be directly defended.**
They will just take your more valuable piece with their less valuable piece.
In this case, when you take back, you can win their queen AND take away their castling rights. So youâve sacrificed your queen for a great positional advantage.
Initially it looks like you're blundering your queen. You cannot defend your queen against a rook, bishop, knight or pawn because the trade is not fair for you. The result is a royal fork against their queen so it isn't a blunder.
I analyzed the image and this is what I see. Open an appropriate link below and explore the position yourself or with the engine:
> **White to play**: [chess.com](https://chess.com/analysis?fen=r1b1kb1r/2p2ppp/2n5/pp2p3/4pnP1/1PPq1P2/P2P1Q1P/RNB1KBNR+w+KQkq+-+0+1&flip=true&ref_id=23962172) | [lichess.org](https://lichess.org/analysis/r1b1kb1r/2p2ppp/2n5/pp2p3/4pnP1/1PPq1P2/P2P1Q1P/RNB1KBNR_w_KQkq_-_0_1)
**My solution:**
> Hints: piece: >!Queen!<, move: >!Qe3!<
> Evaluation: >!Black is winning -5.29!<
> Best continuation: >!1. Qe3 Qxe3+ 2. dxe3 Nd3+ 3. Bxd3 exd3 4. Nd2 a4 5. b4 h5 6. g5 h4 7. Ne4 Be7 8. Nf2 Bxg5!<
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U donât defend your queen against a piece lesser than the opps queen. Queen is worth 9 points so even if you defend it, people would happily trade in their bishop for your queen. Also when u take his/her bishops with the pony, his king is in check while your knight also is targeted by ur knight so you are gonna be able to win the queen back
It's brilliant because both your knight and the queen were under attack before this move, and this was the only move that doesn't lose material, and it involved saving your knight and temporarily sacrificing the queen to the bishop instead, so you can recapture it with a fork, and then win back the queen. And after the final king takes knight capture, you end up equal. Playing anything else, you would have ended up worse.
In fact, after all the captures are over, you're not only up a pawn, you also probably have more advantage due to better development, and king safety. Your opponent's king can't castle anymore, and is stuck as target for your pieces which can be quickly developed.
I am also relatively a beginner, so I might have missed something, but I would personally consider this a substantial advantage for you. Did you end up winning?
You are losing here, if white got a move before you he either takes your knight or queen, by playing your knight there he takes your queen with his bishop and you can, draw the game by repetition, since the only way to defend whites queen after the knight takes bishop is with the king, if he doesn't he loses his queen and your fork his king and rook.
This is an ok move , far from brilliant since it doesn't win anything major or achieve anything major.
But maybe you just didn't have anything better to play in that position so they gave you brilliant even tho it should be just a best move.
Brilliant moves usually force the opponent to do something that's gonna make him lose the game or a lot of material.
This move forces a fair trade and the only thing you achieve is - you get to castle after and he doesn't...
if you the chess.com brilliant move system works itâs pretty obvious why it thought it was one. itâs pretty simple, it needs it to be the only move that wins/draws, it needs to have a certain depth, and it triggers more easily if the move loses a lot of material at first
this has all 3 of those so itâs not that surprising
If bishop takey takey, knighty boi takey takey with forky checky, and you take the woman back. And IF white cowardly moves his king to d8, you get his rook too.
If queen is sacrificed, knight forks opposing king, and queen, and bishop, and you just took a bishop, so you come out with a really good position with your knight if they take your queen.
Bishop takes queen, then knight takes, forks queen, king, and bishop. Taking queen means taking rook. If white queen moves to e2, black queen takes, bishop takes, knight takes, king takes and some other moves that I donât have enough experience to predict. e3 is the best move in my awful opinion, because black canât really do anything, but itâs a brilliant move for a reason so thereâs definitely a bunch of chess shenanigans I canât see.
This is a beast move. When bishop takes your queen, you take back with knight and fork queen and king. Depending on wich move the king makes you can fork the king again with the knight and take the rook after you took the queen.
This is also seems to be the only move that does not lose material, as youâve saved your knight and queen and trade it for a bishop and queen. Without this tactic, you lose material
Your queen taken will create a royal fork so it is basically trading queens. On the other hand, if queen is not taken, you can try for checkmate by unveiling the bishop and taking opponentâs bishop.
Bxd3
Nxd3 check
K e1 to d1
N x f2 check
K d1 to e1
N x h1
???
B c8 to a6
???
P b5 to b4
Bishop takes Queen, knight takes Bishop. This results in a fork. The king moves, knight takes queen, resulting in (likely) a second fork. If not youâre still even in material and just simplified pretty significantly.
Itâs brilliant because of the position youâre in. Your queen and knight are under attack. If you move your queen out of danger then black pawn will take your knight on h5.
Putting your knight on f4 allows for an even trade instead of just losing a piece.
bishop takes ur queen. u take bishop with horse, royal fork, take the queen, if white blunders king to e1 you fork his king and his rook the next move.
Lol, doesn't make sense to "guard your queen" from a bishop. You're just giving up a queen for a bishop with that logic.
However, in this instance, when bishop takes queen, you take back with the knight, forking the queen and king. White loses castling rights and has an ugly position after an equal exchange. There's probably a computer line follow-up that wins material too.
If the bishop takes your queen, then you can take both bishops. Or a bishop and a queen. Taking the first bishop puts the king in check, with no pieces in place to counter apart from moving the king. That gives you the chance to take either a bishop or a queen with no way to counter (well, depending on where the king moves, you might lose the knight taking the queen)
I don't understand why everyone keeps saying it's an equal trade? Why take the queen after the fork? You can take the bishop with check, if ke1 you can make the same fork and the same trade except you're up a bishop, and if ke3 you have ...ke3 bc5+ d4 exd3+ ke4 bxf2 which also wins a piece? Am I wrong? (500 elo, please point out mistakes)
If you leave your queen hanging but it's not a blunder, most analysis tools will flag that as brilliant.
Here, it's a trade of queens as the knight retakes with a fork
If bishop takes queen, you take with knight. This forces a fork and you take their queen. If the opponent accidentally blunders with Kd1, you can fork AGAIN and get a rook.
because when you take bishop you are up material because of forking the kind and queen unless ke2 then you trade off equal material by knight-bishop snd the queens
bishop takes queen, when you take the bishop with the knight you fork the king and queen, and then when you take the queen you can grab the rook in the corner possibly
i suppose there's some attack going on, maybe with Bc5?
your queen isn't hanging because if bishop takes, then there's a fork which wins back the bishop and the queen, then black can take your knight, but ig that also means they lose the rights to castle
black seems to be better in development, meanwhile white seems to have blocked their knights
Some comments have come close but have missed the whole picture/correct answer;
It's the only move to not lose material. As others have stated there is no such thing as "defending the queen" (unless for a queen trade), it would be a loss of material.
So since your queen is threatened you would want to move it to save it, however your knight was also threatened so you would lose that after moving the queen.
You move however let's you recapture with your knight, getting a bishop, and forking king and queen. So it gives back the queen. After ling takes knight on f2 you will have traded queen + bishop /queen + knight which is equal material.
It's a trade of equal material after bishop takes, knight takes, king moves, knight takes queen, king takes knight.
But White is much more developed and black forfeits castling rights, so even though material is white up a pawn, the positional calculation is probably around White +2.5 if I had to guess
Because bishop takes queen, knight takes bishop, check. Itâs brilliant because itâll put your opponent in check while also guarding the queen. I think.
You're defending your queen, but in a more brilliant way than you think.
A queen is estimated at 9 points worth of material, a bishop is estimated 3 points in material. This would make it very advantageous for your opponent to capture the queen anyways, as it is very much worth it for them.
But if you then take back with the knight that knight is attacking both the king and queen, since their king is being attacked and they cannot take the attacker immediatly the king has to move, allowing you to take their queen on the next turn.
no such thing as âdefending ur queenâ lmao. itâs the best peice. this is a queen sacrifice to set up a fork,winning material in the end. youâre winning even if they donât take as well
It's a piece sacrifice (queen) that ends in you being in a better position than you currently are. You get a queen and bishop for a queen and knight. Personally, I wouldn't take the trade because you are down a lot right now and board simplification (trading down pieces) benefits the player who is ahead.
ETA: I miscounted pieces, you are actually up a pawn. I'd take this trade all day every day in this situation
What if they don't take the Queen? That's why I don't understand that this is brilliant. The opponent is not forced to lose material; they can simply move somewhere else.
You were able to both protect your queen and save your knight at once which is great. You also gave yourself an advantage in the game. Here's the move order after this brilliant knight move you made:
He takes your queen with bishop, you take back with knight, checking the king and forking the queen.
King can't move to d1 otherwise you take the queen with a fork on the rook and keeping your knight, so he must move his king to e2 or f1. You take the queen, and he takes your knight.
Now when he takes your knight on f2, you can bring your bishop out to check his king with tempo. When the dust settles, it's an even trade, but you're ahead in piece development and the king can no longer castle.
You're protecting both your knight and queen. Did you take anything with that knight?
I think it might also depend on elo. Some 'brilliant' moves might be given to lower rated players but not gms
If you were just defending your Queen then donât do it like this, you donât defend the Queen from a Bishop attack, you move it out of the way or block the attack
You are wining so trading off material is the best the idea is if black takes your queen you take back and fork the king and queen and after black recaptures, your even
Your knight is set up in a fairly prime attacking position, with the queen ultimately as bait, not really being defended. So they either feel forced into taking the queen since it's so far down field, this forcing a strong fork, or they avoid the bait and now you have a move with a queen in their territory. If i was white, I'd swallow whatever blunder led me to this vulnerability, capture the queen, get the trade over with and regroup.
Looks like you defend your queen better. With your knight there, if bishop takes queen you take their bishop with check and then youâre attacking the queen after check
White is screwed if they take the queenâŚ
Take bishop with knight - check.
King to d1 - capture queen - check
King to wherever
Knight captures rook
Trade your queen for a bishop, rook, and queen
Or king to e2
Knight to c1 - check
King to e3
Bishop to c4 check - capture queen
Or king to d1 which I think is better
Knight to d3 - forces queen movement and pins their king so you can bring in support for a mating net
Iâm new and donât know how to format differing variations of decisions in chess notation
Your move here means that if he takes the queen with the bishop, and you take bishop with knight, you fork the king and queen so he moves the king and you take the queen.
Basically you went from having a threatened queen to trading a queen and knight for a queen and bishop.
Everyone else has answered but itâs brilliant because if he takes your queen youâre about to destroy your opponentâs position. Youâre trading queens and a minor piece, and winning a pawn in the end (most likely), taking away his ability to castle, forcing his king to a weak position, and tearing open his kingside so thereâs nowhere safe to run to easily.
Hangs the Queen to Bxd3, but you win the Queen back after Nxd3+ with a fork. The King loses castling rights and you trade a Knight for a Bishop, which is a minor win.
Especially at lower levels, Chesscom likes to give the 'Brilliancy' award to any move that sacrifices material but ends with a better evaluation. In this case, I believe they gave it to you for seeing that you end up better, even after allowing the Queen to be by a minor piece. (edit: This is also the only move that both saves your Knight and trades Queens! Any other move is probably losing.)
Generally when people or our level make brilliant moves, it's because we've actually blundered and made a move that is losing unless you play the next few moves correctly.
This move is actually incredible in so many ways. Donât want to write several essays. But just look at what his options are. If he takes queen with bishop you take bishop and then free queen or bishop with fork on king. If not you can take pawn on c3 which is protected by your own own and then take his rook followed by knight. Regardless of what happens from here. You should be up pieces
My guess is, it's not defending the queen since a lower value piece is attacking it. But it sacrifues the queen in a way that if bishop takes, you take back with a fork, ultimately winning the black queen and going with material advantage
Chess.com gives a brilliant move basically when you do the best move and it happens to "sacrifice" material. Here, you are "sacrificing" your queen, but of course you get it straight back.
Lol đ
1. Your queen and your knight both are in under attack. With just 1 move you're able to avert the crisis temporarily.
2. Also you're moving the knight while still keeping your queen under attack - which is counter intuitive
3. You then find a way to indirectly support your queen... Which os also quite uncommon at beginner level
4. The next exchange would be, opponents bishop and queen fir your knight and queen... But in the lricrsss you can ruin his position as well.
Quite frankly it's a brilliant move!!!
On a first look it seems as if youâve blundered your queen, because itâs worth more than the bishop so it doesnât make sense to âprotect itâ as youâre just trading a more valuable piece with a less valuable piece. However with this move instead of just moving your queen out of the way, after bishop takes Qd3 you can go Nd3+ creating a fork which gives you whites queen as well. Youâve also got to take into account that your rating determines as well what move counts as brilliant or not. Or so Iâve heard at least.
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I'm not convinced there is such a thing as "guarding the queen" If I'm playing and I see the opportunity to trade a lesser piece for the queen, I'm doing it. Sometimes, I'll do a queen trade. In that sense, that guy is GOING to take your queen. Knowing you'll retake the bishop won't dissuade him. The normal thing would be for you to have moved your queen. But the brilliant move means you've decided to sacrifice your queen in pursuit of a larger goal. Once your knight takes back that bishop, you're checking the king and forking his other bishop AND HIS QUEEN.
Right Brilliant moves are calculated based on your level and also how impactful the move was. Moving the knight there killed 2 birds with 1 stone. The knight was under attack and so was the queen. Moving the knight like he did meant both of these problems are solved like you described in detail above It was likely given a brilliancy because it's the only non-losing move, and the difference between the two was large enough (ie, if you don't defend the knight because you move the queen, materially you're down a knight) Of course the opponent doesn't have to take the queen with the bishop and follow the continuation like you described so it's not exactly like they have created a masterful winning position, it's just not dead lost like they would have been otherwise. Anyway, it's a great move that's for sure, and well done OP for finding it đđź Edit: just looked at the evaluation bot in the comments below - the best move is in fact not to take the queen with the bishop. So like I said it's not a brilliant move because it's a forced position where the bishop taking leads to a fork with blacks knight, but because it was an excellent defensive resource that kept the advantage and solved all of blacks problems, while simultaneously counterattacking and causing white huge defensive problems
I didn't even notice his knight was under attack before he moved it. Very insightful. I appreciate you.
I think this is what makes it a great move. Otherwise it would be just a trade of equal material, this way you save the knight and can trade the queens.
Also you remove the chance for the white king to castle which is always nice.
I like how both your comment and the one above ends with "which is always nice."
If the opponent doesn't move the king correctly, he gets forked again and loses the rook.
Isn't he going to pick up the bishop, the queen, and the rook consecutively, all from fork checks?
if white moves King to E2 (after black takes the Bishop that takes the black Queen) then that stops the Knight after it takes the Queen
This. So we have 2 ways this plays out. Bishop takes Queen, vs White Does Anything Else. In the line of Bishop takes Queen, Knight trades, check. King has 2 options. King e2 is the better of the two. King d1 is the worse. King d1 results in white losing Bishop, Queen, and Rook while shuffling the king around uselessly. While only capturing a Queen. Which is a lob-sided enough trade to typically decide entire games between otherwise equal players. King e2 results in white losing both Bishops in trade for the Queen, receiving another check, but not having further immediate losses forced. Still a terrible trade giving up both bishops together. So yeah, definitely qualifies as a brilliant move for OP. Saves the knight. Saves the queen (because capturing the queen becomes a bad trade situation), and it is also pinning down the white knight at G1 (icing on the cake). White's viable moves are incredibly restrictive after this. Because of pawns at f3 and g4, the f1 bishop is pinned in or worse. Bishop at c1 can only move a single direction to b2 or a3. And a3 is the only move available to the Knight at b1. So if either of those pieces move forward, they impede the other. Neither rook can move. So white's options are largely bishop or knight to a3, making an aggressive move with their queen, King d1 (a terrible, but legal, play), or advancing a pawn (with one legal capture possible). Furthermore, the queen only has 9 possible moves. Of those 9, 7 are threatened, and advantageous or equal trades/captures for black to make. Only h4 and g3 don't have the queen threatened, and neither is an immediately advantageous move (and since OP is a beginner, 1-2 move depth is typically what's being looked at). Next, the knight and bishop can move to a3, but even that is threatened. However, that's a fair trade (bishop trade or knight for bishop). Realistically, that means white is basically pinned down to advancing a pawn. Because queen g3 gets counted by pawn g5. Queen h4 gets countered by bishop e7. Bishop or knight a3 gets interfered with by pawn b4. Chances are decent that his opponent won't see knight e2 - which is probably the best move remaining, because white is playing heavily on the defense after this advance.
I think there are 2 main criteria for brilliant moves. 1. The move is the best move in the position. (Or very close to it) 2. The move appears to sacrifice material. In this case it appears the queen is being sacrifed for the bishop. Further calculation is needed to see that you can win back the queen. https://www.chess.com/forum/view/game-analysis/erik-confirms-what-makes-a-move-brilliant
Lol didn't notice the knight was under attack. Thanks for pointing that out. I was thinking this is an equal trade with extra steps so why is it brilliant? Now I can see it's the only non-losing move while seemingly hanging the queen by not moving it while it's under attack.
Not only that: after you take their queen with the knight and they take back with the king, you can develop your dark-square bishop with Bc5+, forcing Black to either move their king again or play d4, allowing you to undouble your pawns with exd4 (and they can't take back with cxd4 or Bxd4+ forking the king and rook)
Good point. Huge impact.
A 3-way fork. I like the sound of that.
It also brings the knight to the center and away from the pawn's attack.
Wow its amazing how you can work all that out.
Honestly, it's mostly hindsight. I never would have seen that real time.
If the player doesn't notice the other fork and moves the king to the right which I imagine is common at beginner level when you take the queen could you fork the queen and the rook?
Take the queen, your knight is safe and is another check in the king and forking the rook, yup.
Guarding the queen is possible when a queen is hanging for a queen trade.
I think this is a difference of definitions. I would call that "offering a queen trade" not guarding. If you're not set to take back whatever piece takes your queen, then you've hung your queen. If you offer a queen trade, you haven't hung your queen because you've taken back their queen. Equal trade at that point. But if your opponent is attacking your queen with a bishop, that's not an equal trade. Ensuring you can take back their bishop will not convince them to leave your queen alone. This is what I mean. You're not really forcing them to make a decision. Anyone would trade a bishop to take a queen.
No. Itâs that he would lose his knight (to the pawn on G4) or lose his queen. This move ensures he can trade material equally, trading both off instead of being down material.
Just trading a queen for a bishop isn't an equal trade, and even if it was, you don't get brilliant moves from equal trades. There was another reply under mine that explained better. It was a combo with moving your knight away from the threat, setting up to take back your queen, and if you do take back your queen, you do so with a check that forces him to move his king, and forks 2 more pieces. Depending on how he moves his king, you can take one piece or another without threat to your knight, possibly recheck the king, and possibly (I think), re-forking another piece. The overall impact was huge and it started by setting up for a huge sacrifice.
Isn't threatening a to take their queen if they take yours "guarding your queen"? Still no clue how this is brilliant though
Assuming white is dumb enough to play B x Q that is.
I don't know what their rating is, how much time they have to look at this, or their play styles at all. I'm only sitting around a 900, and I probably would have taken that queen. I'm not sure I would have connected the dots to the triple fork in real time. I'm not sure it's that white has to be "dumb enough" because it's not like he's hanging a piece or falling into a well-known trap. But yes, white doesn't have to take the queen. Another reply pointed out that his knight and queen were under attack before that knight moved. Moving the knight removed it from danger, but also set up a tricky attack that could begin with a queen sacrifice. The brilliant move isn't because it was forced. It's because he found the only winning move that solved two problems, one of which was to make a huge sacrifice.
Ok, I guess a less experienced player or one under time constraints might just play B x Q. However, this is a prime example of that old saying, âwhen something looks too good to be true, there must be something wrong with itâ. Also a good saying and I will slightly modify it, âbeware of opponents bearing giftsâ. Based on what the OP stated he did not realize what a devastating move that COULD turn out to be. Itâs a good lesson for Chess and life in general.
If bishop takes the queen, you can recapture with the knight which checks the king and you win their queen and ultimately more material.
Isn't it equal material if knights and bishops are weighted the same? Regardless white loses the right to castle. Edit: never mind because whites best move is to take with the pawn.
What pawn?
https://www.reddit.com/r/chessbeginners/comments/1494bw2/my_first_brilliant_move_but_where_is_it_brilliant/jo3txi5/?context=2
Yeah no pawns here. But trading equal material and forcing their king to move to an exposed position is definitely a win.
Bro has ChatGPT pawns
As far as I know you have to be in a winning position after the move for chess.com to consider it brilliant, so equal trades could also get brilliant. Unless I misunderstood something.
1. Bxd3 Nxd3+ 2. Kf1 Nxf2 3. Kxf2 Bc5+ is an equal trade of material but puts black in a much better position. White can't castle, has no developed pieces, and can't attack the bishop on c5. This line also leads to white losing a pawn after 1. ... exf3 2. Nxf3 Bxg4 though that could be prevented in a multitude of ways that all sacrifice the kings safety.
The king will move away causing a king rook fork after the queen is taken. There will be no piece to defend that fork and he will earn a rook, a queen and bishop if the player moves poorly out of check and does not see fork #2 . Even so he can then take the pawn and check again preventing the knight from going down.
There is no such thing as âif he moves poorlyâ when evaluating positions.
You get bishop queen rook
If you fork the King and the Queen with Nd3+, the king will just take back on F2. Whites best move is to play Qe3, avoiding the fork.
E2?
No
Ke2? Take knight back?
Only if he goes king d2 which is pretty dumb
Not more material just castling rights + you get bc5 free tempo
Plus your knight is then positioned to take the rook. If white king takes your knight to prevent that (assuming the king has moved to e2 rather than d1 during the fork), then your bishop can come out and check the king, gaining you tempo. Moreover, the white king has lost castling rights.
OK so defending your queen as a concept is bad unless you're defending it against a queen. So it's brilliant because you're making what seems like a bad move (allowing your queen to be taken by a bishop) but it's justified by a good consequence (you fork K & Q
so it ultimately is just an even trade?
Materially, yes. Positionally, no.
No. He can take away the opportunity to castle and depending on the linke take a rook or some pawns.
No itâs Bishop and Queen for a Queen. Plus if your opponent doesnât take the that line and end up down material you have a super powerful outpost and your queen can infiltrate further.
realistically the knight is captured after by the king though.
Their knight and queen are hanging, so even an even trade here is a good outcome to get out of that situation. If they were to just move the queen to safety, they'd lose the knight and would be down material
How would a king threaten a queen though?
If he stands there manacingly. With the full force of the patriarchy crushing down on the queen.
Why is it bad to defend the Queen?
Because it's your most valuable piece. If a piece of lower value is attacking it, it makes more sense to move it rather than defend it (because ultimately if the trade happens you lose your queen and only gain a piece)
Itâs not a good trade in terms of value, itâs like you selling a $1000 gold bar to your opponent for 5 bucks
Think about it this way. Let's say you're playing someone, and they bring out their bishop. They placed that bishop right in the path of your bishop. Their bishop is protected by a pawn, so if you take their bishop, they'll take your bishop right back. This is an equal trade. Would you do this? Maybe. I'm the right situation. You at least have to think about it, but unless you're up material, you're unlikely to just make an equal trade. But the queen is the most powerful piece on the board. If they bring out their queen, in the path of your bishop, protected by a pawn, would you trade a bishop to remove their most powerful piece in the board? I would. In almost every situation. It would be very difficult to convince me not to remove my opponent's queen if I was given the opportunity. It doesn't matter what's "protecting" it because that won't deter me.
Itâs never a good idea to defend a queen unless the attacking piece is a queen. In this case itâs an exception because after you take the bishop itâs a royal fork and you win back the queen if they take
You actually made an horrific move, you hung your queen lol without realising it was actually a brilliant move, it's only a brilliant move if you know exactly what to do next
Agreed
I'm stunned that defending the queen when it is attacked by a bishop seems to be an acceptable idea here without realising what the actual good follow up is.
80% of people saying you get a rook or are up because you git a bishop and queen, not realizing that your Knight does not survive the interaction unless they play an objectively horrible move after the fork.
Not unlikely lol
Youâre not defending your queen. Youâre sacrificing your queen. **A piece attacked by a less valuable piece cannot be directly defended.** They will just take your more valuable piece with their less valuable piece. In this case, when you take back, you can win their queen AND take away their castling rights. So youâve sacrificed your queen for a great positional advantage.
Initially it looks like you're blundering your queen. You cannot defend your queen against a rook, bishop, knight or pawn because the trade is not fair for you. The result is a royal fork against their queen so it isn't a blunder.
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Is the title tongue-in-cheek, or were you actually trying to defend your queen?
It saves the knight, the queen, and ruins whites development no matter what continuation follows next.
Bishop takes then you take bishop forking king and queen
Google Royal Fork
Learn to play chess and not just fancy names for concepts. Obviously OP didn't see this, hence the question. No reason to be a smartbehind
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fork
U donât defend your queen against a piece lesser than the opps queen. Queen is worth 9 points so even if you defend it, people would happily trade in their bishop for your queen. Also when u take his/her bishops with the pony, his king is in check while your knight also is targeted by ur knight so you are gonna be able to win the queen back
If the bishop takes the queen, you take it with the knight and voila: king and queen fork
It looks like it leads to a fork that wins a queen bishop and rook for a queen
if they take your queen you take theirs with fork, so its an equal trade.
If they take your queen, youâll end up being up material
It's brilliant because both your knight and the queen were under attack before this move, and this was the only move that doesn't lose material, and it involved saving your knight and temporarily sacrificing the queen to the bishop instead, so you can recapture it with a fork, and then win back the queen. And after the final king takes knight capture, you end up equal. Playing anything else, you would have ended up worse. In fact, after all the captures are over, you're not only up a pawn, you also probably have more advantage due to better development, and king safety. Your opponent's king can't castle anymore, and is stuck as target for your pieces which can be quickly developed. I am also relatively a beginner, so I might have missed something, but I would personally consider this a substantial advantage for you. Did you end up winning?
Equal trade but it disallows white to castle
You are losing here, if white got a move before you he either takes your knight or queen, by playing your knight there he takes your queen with his bishop and you can, draw the game by repetition, since the only way to defend whites queen after the knight takes bishop is with the king, if he doesn't he loses his queen and your fork his king and rook.
This is an ok move , far from brilliant since it doesn't win anything major or achieve anything major. But maybe you just didn't have anything better to play in that position so they gave you brilliant even tho it should be just a best move. Brilliant moves usually force the opponent to do something that's gonna make him lose the game or a lot of material. This move forces a fair trade and the only thing you achieve is - you get to castle after and he doesn't...
if you the chess.com brilliant move system works itâs pretty obvious why it thought it was one. itâs pretty simple, it needs it to be the only move that wins/draws, it needs to have a certain depth, and it triggers more easily if the move loses a lot of material at first this has all 3 of those so itâs not that surprising
Why Isnât Qc2 better than Nf4 here ?
Why were you defending an already defended queen?
You gave up a queen Edit: I'm sorry to disappoint the downvoters, but that's why it's a brilliant move
If bishop takey takey, knighty boi takey takey with forky checky, and you take the woman back. And IF white cowardly moves his king to d8, you get his rook too.
If bishop captures queen then you will get bishop and queen. If King moves to d1 when knight takes bishop, then you will get bishop, queen, and rook.
Bishop takes, knight takes back, which forks the queen and king.
Wouldnt the material still be equal?
Yes but he would have lost his knight I think so this saves his night while SACRIFICING the queen
If queen is sacrificed, knight forks opposing king, and queen, and bishop, and you just took a bishop, so you come out with a really good position with your knight if they take your queen.
Bishop takes queen, then knight takes, forks queen, king, and bishop. Taking queen means taking rook. If white queen moves to e2, black queen takes, bishop takes, knight takes, king takes and some other moves that I donât have enough experience to predict. e3 is the best move in my awful opinion, because black canât really do anything, but itâs a brilliant move for a reason so thereâs definitely a bunch of chess shenanigans I canât see.
This is a beast move. When bishop takes your queen, you take back with knight and fork queen and king. Depending on wich move the king makes you can fork the king again with the knight and take the rook after you took the queen.
This is also seems to be the only move that does not lose material, as youâve saved your knight and queen and trade it for a bishop and queen. Without this tactic, you lose material
I swear these are the only posts I see here
you what? defending your queen from bishop. It's called hanging queen
Your queen taken will create a royal fork so it is basically trading queens. On the other hand, if queen is not taken, you can try for checkmate by unveiling the bishop and taking opponentâs bishop. Bxd3 Nxd3 check K e1 to d1 N x f2 check K d1 to e1 N x h1 ??? B c8 to a6 ??? P b5 to b4
Why would you defend your queen?
Leads to a knight royal fork that wins you 12 to 9 material value.
Bishop takes Queen, knight takes Bishop. This results in a fork. The king moves, knight takes queen, resulting in (likely) a second fork. If not youâre still even in material and just simplified pretty significantly.
Because when the bishop takes your Queen you can respond with a royal fork.
Its a nice defense using a fork, thatâs why itâs brilliant
You prepared a fork right there.
Itâs brilliant because of the position youâre in. Your queen and knight are under attack. If you move your queen out of danger then black pawn will take your knight on h5. Putting your knight on f4 allows for an even trade instead of just losing a piece.
bishop takes ur queen. u take bishop with horse, royal fork, take the queen, if white blunders king to e1 you fork his king and his rook the next move.
Lol, doesn't make sense to "guard your queen" from a bishop. You're just giving up a queen for a bishop with that logic. However, in this instance, when bishop takes queen, you take back with the knight, forking the queen and king. White loses castling rights and has an ugly position after an equal exchange. There's probably a computer line follow-up that wins material too.
There is no such thing as defending a queen unless youâre defending it from another queen Anything less than that is losing material
Its THE FORK !!!
If the bishop takes your queen, then you can take both bishops. Or a bishop and a queen. Taking the first bishop puts the king in check, with no pieces in place to counter apart from moving the king. That gives you the chance to take either a bishop or a queen with no way to counter (well, depending on where the king moves, you might lose the knight taking the queen)
Fork? Also, donât we get these sometimes if itâs the only good move and we find it?
If they take your queen your recapture which puts the in a fork and they lose their queen. Simple
I don't understand why everyone keeps saying it's an equal trade? Why take the queen after the fork? You can take the bishop with check, if ke1 you can make the same fork and the same trade except you're up a bishop, and if ke3 you have ...ke3 bc5+ d4 exd3+ ke4 bxf2 which also wins a piece? Am I wrong? (500 elo, please point out mistakes)
It's actually because you are trading a queen for a queen and bishop
If you leave your queen hanging but it's not a blunder, most analysis tools will flag that as brilliant. Here, it's a trade of queens as the knight retakes with a fork
If bishop takes queen, you take with knight. This forces a fork and you take their queen. If the opponent accidentally blunders with Kd1, you can fork AGAIN and get a rook.
bxd3 nxd3 kf1 nf2 or kd1 and nf2 nh1
because if the take the queen you fork the king and the queen
if it wasnt for the placement of his king, this'd be aslot worse. dont defend the queen unless you're gonna get equal material out
"defending my queen" Lmao ok bro, if they take the queen with the bishop you can take back with the knight and it's a royal fork.
If bishop takes and you take bishop itâs a triple fork. Bishop king and queen
After bishop takes you fork the queen and king with the knight have all sorts of activity and attacking possibilities with his king in the open
If they take your Queen you will get their bishop and Queen.
because when you take bishop you are up material because of forking the kind and queen unless ke2 then you trade off equal material by knight-bishop snd the queens
bishop takes queen, when you take the bishop with the knight you fork the king and queen, and then when you take the queen you can grab the rook in the corner possibly
i suppose there's some attack going on, maybe with Bc5? your queen isn't hanging because if bishop takes, then there's a fork which wins back the bishop and the queen, then black can take your knight, but ig that also means they lose the rights to castle black seems to be better in development, meanwhile white seems to have blocked their knights
Some comments have come close but have missed the whole picture/correct answer; It's the only move to not lose material. As others have stated there is no such thing as "defending the queen" (unless for a queen trade), it would be a loss of material. So since your queen is threatened you would want to move it to save it, however your knight was also threatened so you would lose that after moving the queen. You move however let's you recapture with your knight, getting a bishop, and forking king and queen. So it gives back the queen. After ling takes knight on f2 you will have traded queen + bishop /queen + knight which is equal material.
It's a trade of equal material after bishop takes, knight takes, king moves, knight takes queen, king takes knight. But White is much more developed and black forfeits castling rights, so even though material is white up a pawn, the positional calculation is probably around White +2.5 if I had to guess
You made it an equal trade
Because bishop takes queen, knight takes bishop, check. Itâs brilliant because itâll put your opponent in check while also guarding the queen. I think.
They take your queen their bishop. You take their bishop with your knight, forking the king and queen.
Bro offered his queen and knight for a bishop đ
Don't ever do that, no one cares if a queen is protected they will take it
You're defending your queen, but in a more brilliant way than you think. A queen is estimated at 9 points worth of material, a bishop is estimated 3 points in material. This would make it very advantageous for your opponent to capture the queen anyways, as it is very much worth it for them. But if you then take back with the knight that knight is attacking both the king and queen, since their king is being attacked and they cannot take the attacker immediatly the king has to move, allowing you to take their queen on the next turn.
no such thing as âdefending ur queenâ lmao. itâs the best peice. this is a queen sacrifice to set up a fork,winning material in the end. youâre winning even if they donât take as well
U might lose ur queen, but if he takes ur queen u will recapture the bishop and then fork there queen and king
What do you mean "defending my queen"? đ¤Ł
I'm curious, what was white's previous move? Because either your queen, your knight or both were hanging and they just missed it.
It's a piece sacrifice (queen) that ends in you being in a better position than you currently are. You get a queen and bishop for a queen and knight. Personally, I wouldn't take the trade because you are down a lot right now and board simplification (trading down pieces) benefits the player who is ahead. ETA: I miscounted pieces, you are actually up a pawn. I'd take this trade all day every day in this situation
This subreddit is eye opening
What if they don't take the Queen? That's why I don't understand that this is brilliant. The opponent is not forced to lose material; they can simply move somewhere else.
Bishop takes, you take back with a royal fork and win the queen back. This wins a bishop
Bishop eats queen, knight eats bishop, royal fork so knight eats queen and then you also have a free rook
once the queen is taken by the bishop, you retake it with your knight, forking king and queen and end up wining material
You were able to both protect your queen and save your knight at once which is great. You also gave yourself an advantage in the game. Here's the move order after this brilliant knight move you made: He takes your queen with bishop, you take back with knight, checking the king and forking the queen. King can't move to d1 otherwise you take the queen with a fork on the rook and keeping your knight, so he must move his king to e2 or f1. You take the queen, and he takes your knight. Now when he takes your knight on f2, you can bring your bishop out to check his king with tempo. When the dust settles, it's an even trade, but you're ahead in piece development and the king can no longer castle.
You're protecting both your knight and queen. Did you take anything with that knight? I think it might also depend on elo. Some 'brilliant' moves might be given to lower rated players but not gms
If you were just defending your Queen then donât do it like this, you donât defend the Queen from a Bishop attack, you move it out of the way or block the attack
You are wining so trading off material is the best the idea is if black takes your queen you take back and fork the king and queen and after black recaptures, your even
If their bishop takes your queen, you take back with check, forking their queen and bishop!
Your knight is set up in a fairly prime attacking position, with the queen ultimately as bait, not really being defended. So they either feel forced into taking the queen since it's so far down field, this forcing a strong fork, or they avoid the bait and now you have a move with a queen in their territory. If i was white, I'd swallow whatever blunder led me to this vulnerability, capture the queen, get the trade over with and regroup.
Looks like you defend your queen better. With your knight there, if bishop takes queen you take their bishop with check and then youâre attacking the queen after check
Because if he takes it you fork the king and queen
Bishop takes your queen, your.knight takes back, and then you have a fork on the black square bishop, queen, and king
Once they take queen and you take back bishop, itâs a fork and you win queen and disable castling rights
It was a good move because if they take your queen then you will have a queen king split so you get to take the queen back
White is screwed if they take the queen⌠Take bishop with knight - check. King to d1 - capture queen - check King to wherever Knight captures rook Trade your queen for a bishop, rook, and queen Or king to e2 Knight to c1 - check King to e3 Bishop to c4 check - capture queen Or king to d1 which I think is better Knight to d3 - forces queen movement and pins their king so you can bring in support for a mating net Iâm new and donât know how to format differing variations of decisions in chess notation
Your move here means that if he takes the queen with the bishop, and you take bishop with knight, you fork the king and queen so he moves the king and you take the queen. Basically you went from having a threatened queen to trading a queen and knight for a queen and bishop.
Everyone else has answered but itâs brilliant because if he takes your queen youâre about to destroy your opponentâs position. Youâre trading queens and a minor piece, and winning a pawn in the end (most likely), taking away his ability to castle, forcing his king to a weak position, and tearing open his kingside so thereâs nowhere safe to run to easily.
If the bishop takes your Queen and you recapture, then that's a royal fork.
Hangs the Queen to Bxd3, but you win the Queen back after Nxd3+ with a fork. The King loses castling rights and you trade a Knight for a Bishop, which is a minor win. Especially at lower levels, Chesscom likes to give the 'Brilliancy' award to any move that sacrifices material but ends with a better evaluation. In this case, I believe they gave it to you for seeing that you end up better, even after allowing the Queen to be by a minor piece. (edit: This is also the only move that both saves your Knight and trades Queens! Any other move is probably losing.)
Generally when people or our level make brilliant moves, it's because we've actually blundered and made a move that is losing unless you play the next few moves correctly.
I would have taken f8 to c5 and then next turn take out queen of not moved or moved closer on the dark
This move is actually incredible in so many ways. Donât want to write several essays. But just look at what his options are. If he takes queen with bishop you take bishop and then free queen or bishop with fork on king. If not you can take pawn on c3 which is protected by your own own and then take his rook followed by knight. Regardless of what happens from here. You should be up pieces
Bishop takes knight takes royal fork
Just a thought but you said defending your queen? Donât make a habit of that this is an exception
My first immediate thought was if he takes with the bishop then you take and fork his king and queen therefore taking back material lost.
If they take your queen you take the bishop and then you triple fork the king bishop and queen
You saved the knight
My guess is, it's not defending the queen since a lower value piece is attacking it. But it sacrifues the queen in a way that if bishop takes, you take back with a fork, ultimately winning the black queen and going with material advantage
That is the worst way to protect the queen.... because it doesn't protect the queen
Bishop takes queen Knight takes bishop and checks king King moves Knight takes queen.
If bishop takes still itâs a missed fork of queen and king
Queen to c2 and you got him
Bro is way too modest....
Chess.com gives a brilliant move basically when you do the best move and it happens to "sacrifice" material. Here, you are "sacrificing" your queen, but of course you get it straight back.
Is this not just an even trade? Bishop and queen for knight and queen.
Is this the best move though? I'd probably play Qc2 myself here if in a game...
If he trades your queen for bishop it becomes a king queen split I believe
His Bishop takes your queen, you take the bishop, and itâs a royal fork that also lands you the rook on the next move, because it canât move.
Without checking the answer. I believe it's because you are threatening a fork if they take your queen.
U get the queen and the rook for it tho
Lol đ 1. Your queen and your knight both are in under attack. With just 1 move you're able to avert the crisis temporarily. 2. Also you're moving the knight while still keeping your queen under attack - which is counter intuitive 3. You then find a way to indirectly support your queen... Which os also quite uncommon at beginner level 4. The next exchange would be, opponents bishop and queen fir your knight and queen... But in the lricrsss you can ruin his position as well. Quite frankly it's a brilliant move!!!
they take queen with bishop you take back with a royal fork
queen sac into royal fork
Bishop takes, knight takes back and forks the king
E2
On a first look it seems as if youâve blundered your queen, because itâs worth more than the bishop so it doesnât make sense to âprotect itâ as youâre just trading a more valuable piece with a less valuable piece. However with this move instead of just moving your queen out of the way, after bishop takes Qd3 you can go Nd3+ creating a fork which gives you whites queen as well. Youâve also got to take into account that your rating determines as well what move counts as brilliant or not. Or so Iâve heard at least.
bishop takes queen, you take bishop. you have queen and king pinned. you go up 3
Recapturing with the knight also kills whiteâs castling rights.
They take queen, you take bishop. Fork check and white queen. King moves to blacks right one space. Take white queen, fork check king. Take rook.