How is this move a brilliant move?

Hey everyone, I am fairly new to chess.com forums and chess itself. I am 700 rated now and I was amazed that I finally got my first brilliant move-

In this position I took the pawn on e4 with my pawn (Im black), I understand that white cannot capture the pawn with their pawn on f3 or with their queen on e2.

But what I don't understand is that can't white just move their queen out of the way of the pin of the rook and then there are no threats, and also wasnt Rxe4 better then dxe4 coz then u keep the pin and win the queen?

Any information on this would be really appreciated.

halo revant i am da chess expert it is a brilliant move because it is very brilliant

It seems like chess.com gives a move brilliant when it loses material short term but is a good move long term.

On chess.com, "brilliant" refers to a move that sacrifices a piece to greatly improve your position. Your pawn move here sacrifices the bishop on g4. If the white pawn takes your bishop, you can move your pawn up again to e3 - queen can't take without being lost to your rook and the d2 pawn can't take it because it's pinned to the king by your other bishop. The queen can move on the next move, but when your pawn takes the d2 pawn, it places white's king in a double check - revealing the check from your rook as well as the check from the pawn - which means white's king has to move. If king moves to d1, pawn takes the white bishop and reveals a check from black queen while setting up a checkmate; if king moves to  f2, there are potentials for check from black's queen and bishop. In general, your pawn move sacrifices the bishop (brilliant) and destroys white's protection of the king while gaining white's dark-squared bishop and setting up mate - if they take the sacrifice.

And if they don't take it - for example, moving the queen instead - pawn takes f3, revealing rook check, white has to block the check with knight or bishop, pawn can then take or advance, threatening the rook - again destroying white's pawn protection, and taking a piece back. Either way, black has a greatly improved position and, with best play, a quick mate.

ohhh now i understand ty for the explanation in simple terms

You're welcome.

Also, fyi, when you're going through the Game Review and don't understand why a move is called brilliant or mistake or whatever, you can click the Analysis icon and play out other moves to see what would've happened to figure out why the engine likes/doesn't like your move and why it suggests a different one. (Although, there will still be times you're stumped and need to ask in the forum!)

It’s brilliant because capturing the pawn would be absolutely stupid because the queen is there. Also not capturing the pawn is good, but it loses material in the long term

Ur sacking the bishop 💀

I'm kind of in awe about how terrible a position your opponent had in this game. Absolutely zero development, the king is still several moves from castling, queen in front of the king. Just wow. Your opponent deserved to lose this game after such poor play.

Nice brilliancy. It is indeed a really good move. 👍

I think they would, black is sacrificing that bishop by playing this move.

Nice job on getting your first brilliant

Because Ben Finegold says so.

Sorry if this q seems stupid but did you notice the bishop was hanging?

previous reply spotted the nice tactics if u want to understand it without calculation just understand that if he takes the bishop, ur next move is e3 threatening to win the queen and or open a discovery on the king with all your pieces active and his king naked in the center.

So as you gave away a full piece, you get more than enough compensation to the degree you can even misplay it and still win

After Qc4 (the best queen move), then exf3+.

• If Kd1, then fxg2+ Qxg4 gxh1=Q.
• If Kf2, then Qb6+ and Black's king is in a bad, exposed position.
• If Bd2, then fxg2 and no one can stop the pawn from promoting.
• If Nd2, then fxe2 and White is winning.
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Nice move after fxBg4 e3 Nf3 exd2+ Bxd2 Bxd2+ Nxd2 RxQe2+ BxRe2