What Makes A Chess Move Brilliant?

[CornfedForever]

https://techxplore.com/news/2024-08-che ... nt-ai.html

What follows is : Researchers use AI to find out.

It's a short article so I will not copy/past the whole thing, but two engines are mentioned if you are to read it.

"The team worked with Leela Chess Zero, a top chess engine that learns through self-play and has played over 1.6 billion games against itself. They also employed Maia, a human-like neural network chess engine developed by U of T computer science researchers."

[towforce]

What Makes A Chess Move Brilliant?


The first imperative is that it must not turn a win into a draw or a draw into a loss.

Secondly, it should provide the user with what they want. Likely to be:

1. Maximum excitement (Mike Tyson level aggression, swashbuckling sacrifices)

2. Maximise the probability the opponent will make a mistake (so make the position as complicated as possible)

[swami]

A subtle move with deeper insight. A positional zugzwang, and ofcourse a speculative sacrifice.

[towforce]

Simple is best:

A good move that a player of their own Elo level wouldn't normally make (e.g. a move by a 2000 Elo player that a 2000 Elo player wouldn't normally make, but which a GM would make).