This thread is dedicated to those funny moving horseys!
To show the hidden resources of this tricky pieces, show your favorite studies/problems where the knight is the star.
Better still : positions with only K, pawns, and knights.
Here is one of my favorite studies (short, but pretty hard)
White to play and win (Halberstadt)
For those not familiar with studies : there's no number of move to mate since you just have to find the forced way to a clear win (for instance here getting the pawn to queen could be an idea...provided it's not taken next move we consider it a trivial win so no need to continue)
Also : in studies, it's important that there is only ONE way to victory : here the 2 first moves are truly amazing, especially when you consider they are the ONLY way to victory.
Little hint :
In fact i realize that in this study, the real star is not the knight !
But still it's a "knight only" study... knight barriers are better illustrations of the knight power. or under-promotions.
Here is a simpler study where the knight does all the work :
White to play and DRAW (not win!)
Originally posted by shorbock1. Nc7
This thread is dedicated to those funny moving horseys!
To show the hidden resources of this tricky pieces, show your favorite studies/problems where the knight is the star.
Better still : positions with only K, pawns, and knights.
Here is one of my favorite studies (short, but pretty hard)
[fen]4N3/3nP3/1k6/8/1K6/8/8/8 w[/fen]
White to play an ...[text shortened]... first moves are truly amazing, especially when you consider they are the ONLY way to victory.
Originally posted by shorbockI have never seen this, but it's not very hard. 🙂
This thread is dedicated to those funny moving horseys!
To show the hidden resources of this tricky pieces, show your favorite studies/problems where the knight is the star.
Better still : positions with only K, pawns, and knights.
Here is one of my favorite studies (short, but pretty hard)
[fen]4N3/3nP3/1k6/8/1K6/8/8/8 w[/fen]
White to play an ...[text shortened]... first moves are truly amazing, especially when you consider they are the ONLY way to victory.
Originally posted by shorbock1 Ka3 and 2 Kb2 ?
This thread is dedicated to those funny moving horseys!
To show the hidden resources of this tricky pieces, show your favorite studies/problems where the knight is the star.
Better still : positions with only K, pawns, and knights.
Here is one of my favorite studies (short, but pretty hard)
[fen]4N3/3nP3/1k6/8/1K6/8/8/8 w[/fen]
White to play an ...[text shortened]... first moves are truly amazing, especially when you consider they are the ONLY way to victory.
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Originally posted by shorbockah, you're absolutely right, once again I spoke too soon. 🙂
No , it's a bit (wel in fact much) harder than that !
1.Nc7? Nf6 2.Nd5+ Nxd5+ WITH CHECK !
so of course this is the basic idea of the study : how to make this line work?
(2 moves to find then it's clear)
edit: I think approaching horisontally does the trick. black king can't follow unless black knight moves, and if it moves it's all over.
Originally posted by wormwoodHorizontally?
ah, you're absolutely right, once again I spoke too soon. 🙂
edit: I think approaching horisontally does the trick. black king can't follow unless black knight moves, and if it moves it's all over.
1. Kc4? Ne5+ with
2. ... Ng6
3. ... Nxe7
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Originally posted by wormwoodhorizontally? 1Kc4? walks into a check : 1...Ne5+ then Ng6xe7. 1.Kc3 doesn't work but it's much harder to see why. (it begins with 1...Kc5 !! and there's no more move for white amazingly)
ah, you're absolutely right, once again I spoke too soon. 🙂
edit: I think approaching horisontally does the trick. black king can't follow unless black knight moves, and if it moves it's all over.
Vipiu you're getting close !
(edit : i should refresh before posting! )
