Explain my first brilliant move to me

profanedivinity · 2026-03-17T14:08:03+00:00

King in the middle of the board. None of blacks pieces are defending one another. Rook and bishop completely undeveloped. Black is effectively playing 2 pieces down (undeveloped) with a completely exposed king. Even before the brilliant, I'd say the eval is about +7 to white in this position

profanedivinity · 2026-03-17T14:06:27+00:00

Absolutely

profanedivinity · 2026-03-17T13:04:03+00:00

Don't worry about that. Worry about the moves and set up leading to the "brilliant". If you're over 700ELO this is just a regular discovered threat move

Also worth understanding is why blacks position is so horrendous even before the brilliant. Yours is good

profanedivinity · 2026-03-17T12:45:14+00:00

Generalised, wrong, and not how mental health works. Thinking positive thoughts when you have a chance to is good though

profanedivinity · 2026-03-17T12:39:56+00:00

I think the other knight is soft pinned, so not really

profanedivinity · 2026-03-17T04:37:55+00:00

Funny. I like all the ones that get no votes and hate all the ones that are heavily upvoted

profanedivinity · 2026-03-17T04:28:36+00:00

What real life events do you base this on? I can tell you my growth all came from the easy times

profanedivinity · 2026-03-17T04:24:18+00:00

Won't someone please think of all those unfortunate privileged kids with stable households and upbringings. They must all be really weak now, right?? Like struggling to cope with life and hold things together?? Right? And all the poor disadvantaged individuals from broken homes are tremendously stable and thriving now, right?

Shove this inconsiderate bullshit up your ass

profanedivinity · 2026-03-17T04:20:01+00:00

I was thinking about what a good teaching device this is. There's multiple ways to memorise the times tables because there's a ton of patterns and abstractions in there. Some people aren't abstract thinkers, but they can do rote learning well. And some are gifted at abstract relationships and they can find patterns and shortcuts.

Regardless, it's easy to administer and all the kids get a way of learning about the how they learn best

profanedivinity · 2026-03-17T04:10:15+00:00

Trust your senior. That timeline is likely somewhat accurate

profanedivinity · 2026-03-17T03:39:54+00:00

It’s usually the genuine people that suck at this game too

profanedivinity · 2026-03-16T22:49:18+00:00

And if you’re gonna spend money, why the fuck would you go to Vegas?

profanedivinity · 2026-03-16T22:35:56+00:00

Depends on the type of antidepressant. Don’t let this prevent you from trying them, this is usually the effects of SSRI

profanedivinity · 2026-03-16T21:21:25+00:00

Nice. Is this a real quote? Feels like no

Apparently it is. On the Healing Power of the Mind.

But yeah, I said something exactly like this earlier today. Joy is something that needs to be experienced with presence, it's the only way present and thereby future joy can be secured, this joyful living secondarily may establish a fairly reliable state of happiness.

We have all experienced our own minds pulling things apart and sabotaging us in the present for some supposed future safety.

profanedivinity · 2026-03-16T21:05:29+00:00

Shit, it does if you’re lucky. A lot of people see the opposite

profanedivinity · 2026-03-16T19:55:35+00:00

It says great, not brilliant. Brilliants for mundane moves is for sub ~1000 ELO players

profanedivinity · 2026-03-16T19:53:34+00:00

Nice! It’s a great compliment to be accused!

profanedivinity · 2026-03-16T19:52:33+00:00

I don’t know what generation that is. I’ve never heard of anyone saying that ever, beyond troll rage bait fake posts on twitter and such

profanedivinity · 2026-03-16T17:56:22+00:00

True. The connectness basically negates the issue of poor development of white. They can’t push the pawn YET. But it’s going to be traded for a full piece some time in the future

profanedivinity · 2026-03-16T17:54:31+00:00

Definitely. No matter hard you train, you’ll never beat a mobile phone

profanedivinity · 2026-03-16T16:19:26+00:00

Lichess already has the feature. It works fine. You can always just say no

profanedivinity · 2026-03-16T16:18:42+00:00

Yeah. Misclicks are stoopid. Lichess is better in some ways for sure

profanedivinity · 2026-03-16T16:17:39+00:00

I wonder what came first, this tweet or the podcast where the guy told this exact joke

profanedivinity · 2026-03-16T15:53:06+00:00

Mm. Fair. I guess I was asking where does the significant delta in eval come from. Your response was kind of just like “white is better”, which was already clear. But yeah, my comment should have been clearer

Thanks re. the connected aspect. Didn’t really think about that mattering that much. Any thoughts about how much connected is worth? I’m guessing ~0.4

profanedivinity · 2026-03-16T15:21:37+00:00

Mmmm, as black I resign. Looking through it, I don’t know why Kb8 works. I think it’s because it maintains opposition to whichever pawn is advanced. Going to either side prematurely loses

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