K6?

eagles54

Only Chess

15 Dec 05

eagles54

Joined: 17 Mar 04
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15 Dec 05

"To have a knight planted in your game at K6 is worse than a rusty nail in your knee." --- Bogoljubow

Can anyone tell this rookie what the K6 that Bogo refers to means?

LordOfTheChessboard

Joined: 13 Oct 04
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15 Dec 05

Originally posted by eagles54
"To have a knight planted in your game at K6 is worse than a rusty nail in your knee." --- Bogoljubow

Can anyone tell this rookie what the K6 that Bogo refers to means?

Maybe the 6th square infront of the K-ing?

zebano

127.0.0.1

Joined: 27 Oct 05
Moves: 158564

15 Dec 05

1 edit

It's the notation used before algebraic. For instance Pawn to king-4 is equivalante to e4 and was written P-K4. 1.c4 would be 1. P-QB4 (pawn to queens bishop 4), you get the idea...

Hence, he is talking about having a knight planted at e6.

Edit: it's called descriptive notation.

lukemcmullan

Belfast

Joined: 12 Nov 05
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15 Dec 05

Hence, he is talking about having a knight planted at e6.

Or e3 if you're playing Black.

eagles54

Joined: 17 Mar 04
Moves: 82844

15 Dec 05

Thank you, Zebano, for the answer and to you, LOTC, for hazarding the guess.

Wulebgr

Angler

River City

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15 Dec 05

Howard Staunton wrote it "Knight to the King's 6th." It time it became Kt-K6, and later N-K6.

buffalobill

Major Bone

On yer tail ...

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15 Dec 05

Originally posted by eagles54
"To have a knight planted in your game at K6 is worse than a rusty nail in your knee." --- Bogoljubow

Can anyone tell this rookie what the K6 that Bogo refers to means?

Others have answered your question. Another GM - I think it was Capablance - also said that if if he got the knight on K7 or Q7 (the central seventh rank) he'd sit back and let the game win itself. It's a commanding position and one I aspire to. I can get to K6 or Q6 for a while but an unassailable knight on the central 7th rank should be any chess player's ultimate wet dream.

dottewell

Joined: 12 Jun 05
Moves: 14671

15 Dec 05

Originally posted by eagles54
"To have a knight planted in your game at K6 is worse than a rusty nail in your knee." --- Bogoljubow

Can anyone tell this rookie what the K6 that Bogo refers to means?

K9 is a dog of a square.

Bdum-tish.