My Most Ellegant Brilliant Move

Not many feelings in chess can match that of playing a brilliant move. There are many types of these sacrifaces - the known patterns, like the Greek Gift, or the Smothered Mate; calm, positional exchange, or rarely even full-piece sacrifices; tactical strikes in complex positions. Every brilliant is beautiful in its own way.

Today I want to show you a game I played where I managed to play the most visually pleasing brilliant move of my chess career. Its beauty doesn't come from deep, complex calculations, but from its ellegance. I hope you will appreciate it as much as I did.

So, let me take you for an chess adventure.

We start out journey in the Semi-Slav Defense, where my opponent decides to deviate from the theory at 11th move with this interesting idea of anchoring the knight on c6, followed by d5. We can already see, that the game will be very exciting, fitting my chess spirit.

The correct way of handling this with black would be Nc5! undermining the base of White's centre - the e4 pawn. And not correct would be... well:

exd5?? - what a terrible move. As soon as I'd played it, I realized its stupidity. Luckily for me, after the clutch Bc5, my opponent wasn't able to find this computer strike b4! and instead let me back into the game, by playing a4? and Nxb5? The pressure on f2 led to him making another mistake with Rf1.

Finally we arrive at the critical position, where White's king is stuck in the centre, with an open e1-a5 highway for my pieces. The position is completely dominated by Black, and evena slow Bb7 is winning. But having said that, you can try to find the move I played during the game, and hyped up so much at the start of this post.

Retreating the knight to the home square. Next to his undeveloped freinds. How often do you get to play a brilliant move on your own home rank? Of course, this wan't the only move in the position, and isn't that hard to spot, but I still think it's worth sharing, and I hope you can appreciate it as much as I do.

Well this was a short game, and a short post. Thank you for reading, I hope you enjoyed, and I'll see you soon, with another opening study, this time for the Black pieces. If you want, leave a comment, I love interacting with you! Bye!