My first interesting chess move

Errata: I am almost always misreading or misunderstanding what the engine analysis is trying to tell me here, so apologies for how much nonsense I talk about it. I do see now that it's trying to tell me that bishop move checkmates faster than my rook gambit, that's exactly the kind of thing I knew I'd never find. And the queen move it suggests for black - I see that he at least gets my bishop in return, but it still pulls the knight away and lets me close it out, the engine just likes that it takes me 2 more moves to do it.
Context: I didn't like chess so I started making a chess game so I started researching chess so I started watching chess so I started playing chess so I started sorta maybe starting to like chess.

[@SnBkSpy]

Nice sequence. It looks from the graph that you had a commanding lead from very early in the game, and once you have an unstoppable mating sequence, denoted by M4, M2 etc in the evaluation pane on the right, the computer will suggest moves to delay checkmate as many moves as possible, hence the strange "Best move is Qb8" suggestion.

[@Awpteamoose]

I've also picked up chess recently and my favourite part is the analysis that can very confidently give a score to every move, as well as show why some moves are bad and some are good, etc. Usually when I try to learn a game, all the analysis is kind of on my shoulders and it often isn't obvious what would've been the right thing to do. Even experienced players often disagree (like in higher ranks in every team-based competitive game). I'm also making a chess-inspired game but it's basically about being presented with a board position and betting on whether it's better for you than for opponents, like poker except chess-inspired mechanics instead of card combos.

[@Arguswastaken]

I usually have no idea what I'm doing in chess for the most part but occasionally I do get moments like this, and I think that's what mainly makes it fun and satisfying despite its shortcomings lol

[@sayethwe8683]

I love that you've named yourrself after the navy seer.

[@Frogfish999]

That’s called a deflection sacrifice, where you sacrifice a piece in order to make your opponent’s piece move away from a good square. The reason that the engine wants to randomly give up the queen is that you have forced checkmate no matter what and giving up the queen like that slows down the mate by one move.

[@mthw]

Did you consider moving the bishop at g6 down to c2, that would place the King in check with your Queen, force them to move the King, and then you could capture their Queen with the Bishop at c2?

[@kirasmith1147]

That's pretty good, but checkmate is pretty findable here with any discovered check via moving the bishop

[@neidhartmuller8804]

Well done, I'm proud of you !

[@samoxa26]

Impressing! I usually just do an agressive debuts and expect my opponent to overthinkl the situation, kinda works 60% of the time xD Btw, are there any chances there will be updates for Heat Signature? I know that you're an enthusiast and work primarily by yourself, but I L̶O̶V̶E̶, IN LOVE with your games, especially HS. If there will be, how may I help? This game gave me my first-ever game experience back in the days when the only thing I had is a 100$ laptop. Thank you very VERY much for who you are and for what you're doing!

[@nbtwall7287]

Nice play :)

[@3thanguy7]

interesting, it's taking an objective and material loss for a subjective and theoretical gain

[@Cammymoop]

In Hive (a modern boardgame in the same vein as chess) sacrifices are pretty common for pretty much any good attacking strategy. I think some of the factors that encourage this is: 1) In hive pieces are pinned not captured so there's a possibility they may become active again, and the opponent now has to do more work if they want to keep your piece immobile while regaining use of the pinning piece. 2) The long range pieces (ants, ant-powered-mosquito) have movement that threatens very nearly the entire current play area, leading to many situations where any individual threatening piece could be attacked (pinned) by several of the opponents pieces in a single move. The game then becomes to find the thread where the "good" moves to take out your most threatening pieces lead to a situation where you can make an indefensible threat with the little material you have left Hive is great fun very much worth a look if you haven't seen it. If it was made several centuries earlier I think it would already be among the ranks of chess, go and the like.

[@AzimovTube]

He had to take your rook or you could just move that down and check him next turn anyway, You also could have got that bishop with your bishop even without the knight moving.