“Brilliant” and “Good” moves icon in Lichess analysis board.

Hey,

I’m not here for an argument, I just wanted to propose the idea of adding “Brilliant” and “Great” move icons to the Lichess analysis board.

The reason I strongly believe this will be a game changing feature for lichess to add is because it would make games that feature a brilliant or great move feel more rewarding and satisfying, other than the move looking exactly like a good or best move, without any visual indication that chess.com does.

Adding this feature would also align with real world chess notation, brilliant moves are usually annotated on move sheets like this: Qa7 (!!) and bad moves (which lichess has an icon for) like this Qa7 (??).

I really don’t see why they don’t want to add this feature, they already have this feature for blunders and mistakes, why not let us see our amazing moves that we usually do some calculations for.

I am also a programmer and I know that Lichess’s source code is open source so I would love to work on implementing this feature with a couple other programmers if lichess allows us. If anyone is interested in helping out or has any questions email me: jacobygill@outlook.com my GitHub is github.com/MrGilli

I know this question has been asked but I think a call for a reconsideration is long overdue. Please, to anyone that reads this at lichess I ask that you closely consider this feature and all the good it will bring for lichess players like myself. Nothing bad can come from this feature, lichess UI is already 10/10 and with this feature it could push it to 11/10 and even convert some chess.com players.

Again if you want to talk about this or contact me to help add this feature please do so.

Thanks(!!)

@MrGill2
This has been discussed many times. Blunders mistakes and innacuracies are easy. A noticeable drop in evaluation is an innacuracy, a big drop is a mistake and a huge drop is a blunder. Brilliant and great moves, on the other hand, are much harder.
Chess.com does it, but it absolutely sucks. Great moves are ridiculously easy to get, and brilliant moves can be the most common tactical patterns known to man, such as the fried liver or Greek gift. Nothing brilliant about that, just following a tactical pattern known for a century. It is nearly impossible to determine brilliant/great moves without human intervention. If you can give me a good ,objective( very important to be objective ) measure to determine brilliant/great moves, I will reconsider my opinion.

@MrGill2
You can add (!!) & others in your study.

i think brilliant & good moves can be implemented if an expert AI in chess is trained to understand human moves & their idea behind it.. not SF, he only knows his moves & he considers his moves are best if not somehow attenuated..

@Akarsh_2010 thanks for your response.
As for a solution to adding brilliant and great moves to lichess, there is already a repository for showing brilliant and good moves in lichess. The problem is it’s a third-party browser extension and doesn’t have support for the lichess app. Also it’s better to just have it Implement in the analysis itself.

Whilst some brilliant moves aren’t the most interesting and fascinating a great deal are, and I believe there should be something to show for this. It will make for more content creators turning to lichess and there may be more shorts of lichess brilliant move clips on YouTube. I just don’t see why adding this is such a bad idea. You could even make an option to turn it off or on.

Let me know what you think. I believe it should be strongly considered, after all nothing bad can come from it. It will only be a feature that a lot of people will enjoy. It shouldn’t take long to make the existing code from the existing lichess-brilliant-move repository to work with the app and website.

Here is a link to the repository: github.com/sealldeveloper/lichess-detailed-moves

It also explains how they classify the moves.

If chess.com does it lichess should be able to as well.

I agree 100% that many would love to see it, but we would not add something we felt was fundamentally dishonest.

@MrGill2 said in #5:
> Here is a link to the repository: github.com/sealldeveloper/lichess-detailed-moves
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> It also explains how they classify the moves.
It's not completely self-explaining tbh. Does it mean in a nutshell: the worse the next best move is, the more exclamation marks the move gets? For instance an "!!!" , if the made (best) move has an eval of +2.1 and the next best move has an eval of 0.0?

I mean that would basically mean, that many trivial moves get those triple exclamation marks. Opponent attacks a piece and there is only one way to protect that piece.

@MrGill2 said in #1:
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Just play on chess.com

C'mon seriously...how often do any of us come up with genuinely "brilliant" moves? Even for Wesley So they're pretty much of a rarity!

And as for "good" moves...well, every time you manage to play the engine's top choice, that's more or less of an exclam...right? And please don't count obvious recaptures in that.

Even "obvious" recaptures are not always obvious. For example, you may have a useful check before you finally recapture. Or even forced checkmate, who knows.