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@Bronson , good game. Once you trapped my rook, I felt like I had to scramble and keep checking you because you were one tempo from making my life miserable. So, a draw was my best shot.
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Bronson
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Yea I would've perpetually checked there as well if I were you. And I didn't see any way out for me. If I moved my king to another square, you could have forked my queen by pinning the rook. I think putting my queen on h5 was a mistake. I wanted to apply pressure but if it didn't work out I knew she was going to get stuck there. It was a fun game, brother!
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Yeah, I saw the potential royal fork and knew you'd never allow it. Lol. I was even looking at trying to find a way to take the rook with the queen, then royal fork with the knight, and then have the dueling kings with the remaining pawns but you weren't going for it.
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I rarely see ‘brilliant’ moves in the analysis. I made TWO in one game and still lost on a massive blunder. 
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Giveaway - Snatching defeat from the jaws of victory. That's a familiar scene.I rarely see ‘brilliant’ moves in the analysis. I made TWO in one game and still lost on a massive blunder.
Bronson
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I actually just had my first one in the last game I played. I was so excited when I went to the analyzer and when I saw the move it graded brilliant, I was underwhelmed. It was a great find but I've had much better moves, even in that game.I rarely see ‘brilliant’ moves in the analysis. I made TWO in one game and still lost on a massive blunder.
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Chess.com updated their analysis/review mode last month or so. I like the review mode with the coaching, that's really cool. They also added "great move" between excellent and brilliant, so I suspect they must have made it a bit easier to get a brilliant move? That would explain why we're seeing more now.
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Sorry I couldn’t even make it interesting Chuck. I knew that not swapping queens was a trap but I walked in anyway. After that I saw the myriad reasons I would never be back in that game.
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Yeah, after I was able to take the knight, I had a lot of options - it's hard to take a queen swap when you're down a piece, so I can see why you wouldn't but it was probably worse.
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Looking ahead, all those options you had meant I had zero chance to ever get on offense again. I hate resigning but there wouldn’t have been much point.
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I get it - the analysis has the score -7.9 when you resigned.
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Is that Bb7 move a book move and is it basically a defensive position? I’ve seen it enough times now I need to understand it.
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It’s really more of an offensive position or at least a control feature, it puts the bishop on the longest diagonal on the board - giving you a piece that can attack (or support) attack through the center. It is a feature of several systems or anything that uses a “fianchetto” setup (e.g. kings Indian).
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Ah ok. I’ve often seen people castle behind it which is what made me wonder if it was defensive.
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Maybe both I suppose.
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