B+N+K v K Mating Pattern Tutorial

Originally posted by Testrider
just wondering rakhim, do you think you would mate a player (approx your own strength) if you had 2 mins on the clock in a realtime game?

Almost got the name. You misplaced the K. Anyways, to your question:

Mate someone with a K+B+N vs K? I learnt that several years ago, mated chessmaster and fritz, and the ICC computer with it several times and then never worried about it. The situation rarely comes up.

I don't play blitz so i'm not sure how I would get 2 mins on my clock. Plus we use increments at our chess club. But if you are talking about OTB then I use this formula, make sure you beat them in the middlegame and if that doesn't work then make sure I don't get stuck with a bishop and knight 🙂 Easiest way to achieve this is to trade off both your bishops or both your knights. Problem solved.

I'd like to see someone pull this off in 2 minutes though.

I was playing against a friend OTB and I had a knight, a bishop and a king and he only had a king. I think I was playing flawlessly except the fact that I took him to the wrong corner, i.e. colour of the corner was not that of my bishop! We used to play with the rule that if one side has only a king left, only 16 moves are given to the opponent to checkmate him otherwise its a draw..I know this rule is stupid and doesn't exist..but thus the game ended in a draw.

Originally posted by Ragnorak
I haven’t found any online resource which spells out the ideas behind this mating pattern, so I have chosen to do so myself, after playing my engine in this endgame about 100 times in the past couple of weeks. I haven’t read about this mate anywhere, so I welcome any constructive criticism which betters this tutorial. I may not explained some parts as wel ...[text shortened]... move the enemy king towards a light squared corner.
3) Completing the checkmate.

TBC...

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I could be headed towards one of these... glad you wrote this thread ctrl+d time!

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Originally posted by rhb
I could be headed towards one of these... glad you wrote this thread ctrl+d time!

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I'm afraid I have to say that the tutorial is mostly a waste of time, as the first step (which I pretty much left you up to yourself to do) is by far the hardest.

Instead of wasting your time on my tutorial, check out this page
http://www.chessdryad.com/education/menagerie/, which is a much better and more comprehensive tutorial.

You can test yourself here then if you wish...
http://www.chess-poster.com/chess_problems/mate_king_and_bishop_knight.htm#refresh

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Originally posted by Ragnorak
I'm afraid I have to say that the tutorial is mostly a waste of time, as the first step (which I pretty much left you up to yourself to do) is by far the hardest.

Instead of wasting your time on my tutorial, check out this page
http://www.chessdryad.com/education/menagerie/, which is a much better and more comprehensive tutorial.

You can test yourse ...[text shortened]... ish...
http://www.chess-poster.com/chess_problems/mate_king_and_bishop_knight.htm#refresh

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Ok - cool. Ta for the links... I've got a few pieces to try to remove first without losing any, otherwise the friendly arm of the draw offer will be extended.

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