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Which games won the brilliancy price?

#1
Hey guys, I'd like to see some of the games which won the prizes at the pursuit of brilliance tournament.
Maybe I'm stupid or totally oblivious text of any kind, but I can't find the games that won the prizes at the pursuit of brilliance.
I just want to enjoy some good chess games by creative players :)
#3
Wrote a letter to the organizer of the tournament brilliant Shine. But the answer is no. It seems the competition never took place. The judge had to be Wesley , but he closed the account lichess. The question is who will award the contest. There is no judge. The competition was played over 3000 people. If half of the players have submitted their party. It is about 1500 batches of contestants. A big task to comment on a number of games. The idea was good. I love to look for the best party brilliant Shine.
#4
I think Wesley So is too busy for this. It would be better to submit all the brilliancy entries to the public using lichess forum and let everyone vote for the entry which they think is the best. The player that receives the most votes should win. I don't think that many players have actually annotated their games. I also don't think anyone with lichess blitz rating below 2500 has the level of chess understanding to have a realistic chance to win this contest. There are approximately 100 players with lichess blitz rating of 2500 and above.
#5
#4 Good suggestion, but that would require Lichess to have a forum far less basic than this one ;)
#6
I am sure the developers such as Toadofsky and Thibault can implement all the necessary forum features quickly and easily. The only problem is that this contest probably did not generate enough interest and submissions and the celebrity judge Wesley So closed his account. This is probably very low priority for the developers. It's like requesting all the variants to have blitz and bullet ratings or have 960 feature. The demand is very low for these features. The developers are very busy and have much more important things to do such as improving computer analysis and cheating detection for all the existing chess variants.
#7
I think I was awarded 2nd prize for this game :

www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7s0h7MGN88

As a further apology to you all and the site generally over the recent Amadan incident, I told the organisers to donate my 2nd prize of 100 bitcoins to the site. Hope you guys can forgive me for my heat of the moment comments a few weeks back. I appreciate this site a lot, and love streaming here.

My annotations were:

[Event "Pursuit of Brilliance"]
[Site "lichess.org/xgF7wplu"]
[Date "2016.03.30"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Kingscrusher-YouTube"]
[Black "HalaZizou"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "C10"]
[WhiteElo "2229"]
[BlackElo "2310"]
[Annotator "lichess.org"]
[PlyCount "55"]
[EventDate "2016.??.??"]
[TimeControl "300"]

1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. Nd2 {Tarrasch Variation - avoids doubled pawns. Tarrasch
hated Nimzovich apparently!} dxe4 4. Nxe4 Nd7 {C10 French Defense: Rubinstein
Variation, Blackburne Defense} 5. Ng3 $6 {(0.43 ? -0.09) Inaccuracy. Best move
was Bd3.} (5. Bd3 Ngf6 6. Nxf6+ Nxf6 7. Nf3 c5 8. Be3 cxd4 9. Bxd4 Bd7 10. c3
Bd6 11. Ne5 Qc7) 5... Ngf6 6. Nf3 Be7 7. Bd3 O-O 8. c3 c5 9. h4 {Hack attack
starts here!} b6 10. Ng5 Bb7 11. Nh5 $6 {(-1.05 ? -1.58) Inaccuracy. Best move
was O-O. Idea is generally Rh3-g3 - works well in bullet chess anyway!} (11.
O-O h6 12. Nf3 Bd6 13. Bd2 Qc7 14. Qe1 Rad8 15. Kh1 e5 16. Rc1 exd4 17. cxd4
Rde8) 11... cxd4 12. Rh3 $6 {(-1.44 ? -2.33) Inaccuracy. Best move was cxd4.} (
12. cxd4 h6 13. Nxf6+ Nxf6 14. Kf1 Qd6 15. Nf3 Rfd8 16. Be3 Ng4 17. Qe2 Bf6 18.
Rh3 e5) 12... dxc3 13. Rg3 $2 {(-2.42 ? -3.69) Mistake. Best move was bxc3.} (
13. bxc3 g6 14. Nxf6+ Nxf6 15. Kf1 Qd5 16. Qf3 Rac8 17. Qxd5 Nxd5 18. Bd2 Rfd8
19. c4 Nb4) 13... g6 {Solid so far for black!} 14. Nxe6 $2 {(-3.52 ? -5.97)
Mistake. Best move was Be2.} (14. Be2 Nxh5 15. Bxh5 Nc5 16. Rxc3 gxh5 17. Qxh5
Bxg5 18. Qxg5+ Qxg5 19. hxg5 Bxg2 20. Be3 Rad8) 14... fxe6 {-6 or more but
interesting position!} 15. Bxg6 Nxh5 $4 {(-5.94 ? 3.63) Blunder. Best move was
hxg6. - But it is good to play a human!} (15... hxg6 16. Rxg6+ Kf7 17. Rg7+ Ke8
18. Bg5 cxb2 19. Nxf6+ Nxf6 20. Qa4+ Qd7 21. Qxd7+ Kxd7 22. Rb1) 16. Qxh5 Nf6
17. Bxh7+ Kh8 18. Qh6 {Threatens Qg7 mate} Rf7 19. Bg8+ Rh7 20. Bxh7 Bf8 $2 {
(3.25 ? 4.37) Mistake. Best move was Qf8.} (20... Qf8 21. Bc2+ Qxh6 22. Bxh6
Rg8 23. bxc3 Bxg2 24. Rxg8+ Kxg8 25. Ke2 Be4 26. Bd3 Bxd3+ 27. Kxd3) 21. Qg6 $4
{(4.37 ? 0.19) Blunder. Best move was Qg5.} (21. Qg5 Rc8 22. Bc2 Rc5 23. Qg6
Re5+ 24. Re3 Rxe3+ 25. Bxe3 Bg7 26. Rd1 Qe8 27. Qxe8+ Nxe8) 21... Qe7 $4 {
(0.19 ? 3.91) Blunder. Best move was Be4.} (21... Be4 22. Qf7 Bxh7 23. bxc3 Qe7
24. Qxe7 Bxe7 25. Bf4 Be4 26. Rd1 Kh7 27. Be5 Rc8 28. Rd4) 22. Bg5 Bg7 23. h5
$2 {(3.78 ? 0.91) Mistake. Best move was bxc3. But with threat of h6} (23.
bxc3 Qf8 24. Bxf6 Qxf6 25. Rd1 Bd5 26. Qxf6 Bxf6 27. Bc2 Rg8 28. Bb3 Bxg2 29.
Ke2 Be4) 23... cxb2 {Slightly concerned about Qb4+ here} 24. Rb1 Ba6 $4 {
(0.96 ? 13.45) Blunder. Best move was Be4.} (24... Be4 25. Qxe4 Nxe4 26. Bxe7
Nxg3 27. Bg6 Nf5 28. Ba3 Nh4 29. Be4 Rc8 30. Bxb2 Rc4 31. Ba8) 25. h6 Qb4+ 26.
Bd2 Qxd2+ $6 {(12.70 ? Mate in 8) Checkmate is now unavoidable. Best move was
Qe4+.} (26... Qe4+ 27. Qxe4 Nxe4 28. Bxe4 Be5 29. Bxa8 Bxg3 30. fxg3 Bd3 31.
Rxb2 Kg8 32. Kf2 Bg6 33. Kf3) 27. Kxd2 Rd8+ 28. Ke1 {Phew! My first exciting
game of the tournament} 1-0

Cheers, K

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