Opening with knight - Chess Stack Exchange
White's c pawn gets blocked by the knight with this move, and this might be the reason why pros don't use it very often. On the other hand, Mikhail Chigorin (1850-1908), a strong Russian player from the 1800's played a similar move with the black pieces: 1. d4 d5 2. c4 Nc6 and the opening got his name (Chigorin's Defense).
Is it possible to checkmate with knight and king against king?
Checkmate with either 1 bishop or 1 knight and a king against a lone king is IMPOSSIBLE. What CAN be forced is checkmate with a king and a knight and a bishop against a lone king. There is an exact pattern for this though. Consult a chess book. My favorite is …
What is a "monster knight"? - Chess Stack Exchange
2020年1月23日 · It is not technically a pure chess term, but is not an uncommon description for a very powerful knight. It is simply English, and your common sense thoughts were right on the money. It is just a description for a knight that is beautifully positioned, and that controls a lot of key territory on the board, and is often, but not always, unassailable.
tactics - How to play better with Knight? - Chess Stack Exchange
Understand that the value of the Knight relative to the Bishop may change. Understand by colour, what the Knight threatens when he sits still or moves twice (Rule of Even). Understand by colour, what the Knight threatens once he moves (Rule of Odd). Point 1. Most people know how the Knight moves described as a "L".
analysis - Bishop vs Knight - Chess Stack Exchange
2015年5月21日 · First, some have already noted how bishops become more powerful in the ending when their better mobility really gets to shine, but in the opening, Andrew Soltis notes in Rethinking the Chess Pieces that: "a knight is frequently more active, more threatening, in short, more significant than a bishop in the first ten or so moves of a game. That ...
opening - Is there a concept of 'good' knight and 'bad' knight?
2014年5月1日 · The knight on f3 is "good." It can move its theoretical maximum of eight squares. A knight on one of the corner squares, h1, is "bad." It can move only two squares. A knight on e2 would have only six theoretical moves, not as good as being on f3, unless there were some other, strategic reason (e.g., supporting a knight under attack on c3.
How to defend from the crazy knight attack ... - Chess Stack …
2015年6月18日 · Therefore the knight wouldn't be able to create much of an impact and may finish off with an explosion at 4. Nxg7 that removes the rook (and two minor pieces), but with a queen ready to set off in a diagonal, you can try for a surprise attack and build defenses.
How many points is each chess piece worth?
2020年8月17日 · Knight - 3 points. Bishop - 3 points. Rook - 5 points. Queen - 9 points. Piece combinations: Rook and Knight - 7.5 points. Rook and Bishop - 8 points. Pair of Rooks - 10 points. Three minor pieces - 10 points. Rook and two minor pieces - 11 points. N.B. The values may vary because of circumstances, but these are the basic values.
handicapping - What is the required Elo to beat ... - Chess Stack …
A knight is about 3 pawns, and a queen is 8.8-9 pawns. So if at levels at 2500 vs 2850, a pawn is roughly a 300 point advantage (according to Kaufman, a pawn would presumably be worth maybe 200 at the 2000-2200 level vs Kasparov), and a knight is around a 700 point advantage at 2115 vs 2850, then a queen, being worth almost 3 times as much as a ...
Why would one promote a pawn to a knight? - Chess Stack …
In some cases the knight's ability to attack in L-shaped directions is more useful than a queen's straight line attack vectors. Delivering an immediate mate with a knight would be an example. Also, promoting to a rook/bishop can be preferable to a queen since it could avoid a stalemate. The same logic can also be applied to a knight.