1. e4
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    16 Jul '12 13:241 edit
    Hi RJ

    "I must not be a good player for it took me over a minute, I'm sure."

    It most likely seemed a long time.

    I was reminded of this 'trick' by another thread on here about advice
    people are given on how the pieces the move.

    I went searching on Edward Winter's site as I recalled some garbled attempts
    writers have used to describe how a Knight moves.
    It is certainly easier to show live than to do it in writing.

    http://www.chesshistory.com/winter/winter37.html

    One example:

    "‘The Knights move obliquely, stepping upon every third square, including that
    which they quit; from black to white, and from white to black, over the heads of
    men, which none else do."

    Have you gat that?

    On the same page was the Areoplane mate. It is from the game:

    M. Karff v O. Lugatsch, Berlin, 1937.

    White was a female player, Mona May Karff there is a picture of her on the same page.

    I was shown the trick at the Edinburgh club in the 70's. I of course never saw
    Qa3 mate but the Edinburgh Club was the ideal place to set it up. Then the
    sets they had were huge, the boards were at least 1½ the size of a normal set.
    You simply put a book or rest your hand on a3. 🙂

    Also on the same page are pics of Bobby Fischer on the Bob Hope Show.

    A good site that. Best on the net.
  2. Joined
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    18 Jul '12 15:07
    Originally posted by greenpawn34
    I went searching on Edward Winter's site as I recalled some garbled attempts writers have used to describe how a Knight moves.
    It is certainly easier to show live than to do it in writing.

    http://www.chesshistory.com/winter/winter37.html

    One example:

    "‘The Knights move obliquely, stepping upon every third square, including that which they quit; from black to white, and from white to black, over the heads of men, which none else do."
    A bit further down that page he mentions Lasker's definition that

    "the knight jumps in making the shortest move that is not a straight one."

    This is very similar is essence to another one I've read, which states that

    "The knight jumps to any of the eight closest squares which cannot be reached in one move by either a rook or a bishop".

    I think it was Douglas Hofstadter who used this definition to transplant the knight move to a hexagonal variant of chess he was discussing, and it worked rather well.

    Richard
  3. Standard memberRJHinds
    The Near Genius
    Fort Gordon
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    18 Jul '12 23:14
    Originally posted by Shallow Blue
    A bit further down that page he mentions Lasker's definition that

    "the knight jumps in making the shortest move that is not a straight one."

    This is very similar is essence to another one I've read, which states that

    "The knight jumps to any of the eight closest squares which cannot be reached in one move by either a rook or a bishop".

    I thi ...[text shortened]... e to a hexagonal variant of chess he was discussing, and it worked rather well.

    Richard
    The Knight can jump to one of the nearest non-adjacent squares of opposite color as the one it is on.
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