1 Knight = 1 Bishop ?

Here is another good thing to keep in mind:

Bishops are often better defenders, because they can move and still keep defending the same square.

Originally posted by Dragon Fire
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Who stands better?

If we change B for N, any difference?

Originally posted by HFRorbis
I read that 1 Knight is worth 3,25 pawns and that 1 Bishop is worth 3,4 pawns

what do you think ?

is 1 Bishop worth 1 Knight or not ?

Originally posted by Sicilian Smaug
[bA knight on the 6th, 7th or 8th rank is usually very strong, and sometimes deadly. That is as long as they are not placed in a corner where nothing is happening.[/b]

From what I've read, while a bishop is generally better, one should not blindy trade to get bishops.

Originally posted by gambit3
I do not know about that math. It will be very bad for a Knight or Bishop to have to take on three pawns. Maybe at the start of the game you can try to apply that kind of math.

Originally posted by Shinidoki
A strong Knight outpost is often worth a Rook.

a bad Bishop [trapped] is of little more value than that of a pawn. And a Rook without any open, or semi-open files is pretty damn useless.


The value of the peieces very much depends on the position, that is obvoius....sometimes, a Queen easily prevails over Two Rooks, and at other times, it is helpless. therefore to simply stick to numerical guidlines (pawn=1, bishop =3, etc) is simply absurd.

A knight Vs a Bishop... who wins? obviously there is no victor in an ideal world. But, on a blank board the bishop can "corral" the knight if it were to make a wrong move (say the knight is on g6 and the bishop is on d7, the knight moves to h8 and the bishop then moves to e8) and then be captured on the next move. I don't see any way the knight can do the same to the bishop. In this respect, the bishop is superrior as the bishop can always escape the knight on an open board.

Yet on a closed board with many pawns and pieces the knight can dance circles around the bishop, creating many threats with each move and easily capturing the bishop, this is the secret of the knights power.

With everything taken together, with every possible scenario that arises, they are equal pieces. It is the decisions you make in the single chess game as to how many pawns and other pieces get traded away that will make one more valuable then the other.

And, the bishop is percieved to be worth slightly more because most chess players tend to favor open games where tactics are more prevalent.

Originally posted by HFRorbis
A knight or a Bishop could take on 3 isolated pawns

Originally posted by HFRorbis
I also read that
a Rook = 5 pawns
a Queen = 10 pawns = 2 Rooks
But these values are absolute values , for instance if there was only a Queen and 2 rooks on the board