Bishops OVERATED

Originally posted by mateulose
[b]The problem is, if you "waste" a move covering up a hole for a possible knight advance, my experience is, you lose anyways by doing that, usually to kingside attack, especially when you are black.

Often times, especially as black, you are left with a choice beteewn stoping his pawn storm or knight tricksies, I usually dicide to stop the first, the pa ...[text shortened]... s than I can count! My above game is an example.

But, that's life in the old chessboard jungle!

You made your post into a quote, which cut out part of the post. You might want to fix that.

PROOF THAT BISHOPS ARE BETTER THAN KNIGHTS!

White: Na2, Nb2, Nc2, Nd2, Ne2, Nf2, Ng2, Nh2, Ke1
Black: Ba7, Bb7, Bc7, Bd7, Be7, Bf7, Bg7, Bh7, Ke8

In case you don't know what I'm describing...is basically clear the board and where the pawns should be, place knights and bishops...kings are in their proper places...

Play the game from there...and you will understand why bishops are better than knights...

Originally posted by yamiyokaze
PROOF THAT BISHOPS ARE BETTER THAN KNIGHTS!

White: Na2, Nb2, Nc2, Nd2, Ne2, Nf2, Ng2, Nh2, Ke1
Black: Ba7, Bb7, Bc7, Bd7, Be7, Bf7, Bg7, Bh7, Ke8

In case you don't know what I'm describing...is basically clear the board and where the pawns should be, place knights and bishops...kings are in their proper places...

Play the game from there...and you will understand why bishops are better than knights...

Originally posted by Acolyte
Er, I think that's what you call an open game: no pawns at all! Try something similar except with the usual pawn row and 7 knights/bishops and see what happens.

Interesting experiment.

How about 2 rows of Pawns?

Also, this example has a flaw - one of the weaknesses of the Bishops is that you only have one of each color. Lose one and you lose a lot of influence over squares of that color, which is not true for Knights.