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For mating a lone king with bishop and knight there is the well-known W method (horsie walking in a W pattern) and also the Deletang method, which to me may seem to be somewhat simpler. I suppose this is an individual matter.
By the way, I saw somewhere that Judit Polgar got this endgame and won in her own way, using none of these. Does anyone know where to find that game? I am curious to see how she did it. (May be it can be called "The genius Method"?)
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@piranga saidIs this what you are looking for
For mating a lone king with bishop and knight there is the well-known W method (horsie walking in a W pattern) and also the Deletang method, which to me may seem to be somewhat simpler. I suppose this is an individual matter.
By the way, I saw somewhere that Judit Polgar got this endgame and won in her own way, using none of these. Does anyone know where to find that game? I am curious to see how she did it. (May be it can be called "The genius Method"?)
https://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1092636
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@piranga saidIt may very well be called "the genius method" because IMHO that's what the Polgar sisters are. For a mid-level grunt like me however, still struggling to learn this mating pattern, it can simply be called the "I'm not there yet" method. 😲
For mating a lone king with bishop and knight there is the well-known W method (horsie walking in a W pattern) and also the Deletang method, which to me may seem to be somewhat simpler. I suppose this is an individual matter.
By the way, I saw somewhere that Judit Polgar got this endgame and won in her own way, using none of these. Does anyone know where to find that game? I am curious to see how she did it. (May be it can be called "The genius Method"?)
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@greenpawn34 saidPoor black Bishop. It was consigned to another dimension while its King got killed.
Staying the KBN v K theme, the planned end of this game KBN v KB is a classic.
Ivanchuk - Shirov, Bazna 2009
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[FEN "8/8/5NkP/5bB1/7K/8/8/8 w - - 0 84"]
84. h7 Kg7 85. h8=Q+ {Shirov resigned. He saw the end Ivanchuk had planned.} 85... Kxh8 86. Bh6 {Do you see the idea now.} 86... Bg4 {KxB is obviously stalemate.} 87. Kg5 {White ignores the Bishop. Bla ...[text shortened]... nstoppable.} 89. Ke5 Bf7 90. Kd6 Be6 91. Ke7 Bg8 92. Kf8 Bf7 93. Bg7 {Checkmate.} *
[/pgn]