The 1001 Knights

Starrman

Only Chess

22 Dec 04

Starrman

Joined: 19 Nov 03
Moves: 31382

22 Dec 04

Decided to go a bit crazy with this, anyone got any idea on how strategy might be applied to something like this?

Game 851676

Suggestions and comments welcome 🙂

Shanshu311

Vox Populi

38.9265 N, 94.6372 W

Joined: 08 Sep 04
Moves: 50349

22 Dec 04

WHOA! What the heck is THIS?! That's...that's just crazy talk.

Backwardzpawn

Joined: 15 Nov 04
Moves: 1998

23 Dec 04

For The Game involving only Knight I would recommend that pawn development and structure are key. Knights are not very good at defending squares because they can't move and still defend the same square. So make your pawns defend each other. I would recommend pawn thrusts supported by knights and try not to get isolated pawns because they will quickley become targets. 🙂🙂

hope this helps

Backwardzpawn

Starrman

Joined: 19 Nov 03
Moves: 31382

23 Dec 04

Thank you... I mean /bump 🙂

neight

Cheese log/Beef log

Joined: 27 Oct 04
Moves: 4853

23 Dec 04

I think that the rules for this game should state that even when a pawn promotes, it should have to promote to a knight.

gambit3

Joined: 29 Jul 01
Moves: 8818

23 Dec 04

Surely that game is completed or else you would not be asking for advice.

Starrman

Joined: 19 Nov 03
Moves: 31382

23 Dec 04

Originally posted by gambit3
Surely that game is completed or else you would not be asking for advice.

It is unrated so I am not cheating I am merely curious to people's thoughts, I will notify my opponent that I have started this thread so he does not feel unhappy about it.

Asher123

Drunken Shogun

on Satan's fork

Joined: 22 Feb 04
Moves: 35380

24 Dec 04

and I'm the bozo he's playing and I have no problem playing against cheaters :p

pompomtom

Footscrazy

Joined: 22 Aug 03
Moves: 56559

24 Dec 04

So what's the deal with promotion? Can you only promote to a knight, or can you take a queen?

Asher123

Drunken Shogun

on Satan's fork

Joined: 22 Feb 04
Moves: 35380

24 Dec 04

you can take a queen...I think my plan is to blitz my pawn forward and give them as much cover as possible with the wittle horsies

AThousandYoung

1st Dan TKD Kukkiwon

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Joined: 23 Aug 04
Moves: 26752

24 Dec 04

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Originally posted by Starrman
Decided to go a bit crazy with this, anyone got any idea on how strategy might be applied to something like this?

Game 851676

Suggestions and comments welcome 🙂

Well, both sides are going to want to create places for the Knights to live, for starters. Thes places are going to be "passed points" which no enemy Pawn can ever attack. Isolated Pawns are very bad news in this game. Open files are useless.

Such Knight houses should be centralized. Ideal spots would be King and Queen 4,5 and 6 (d & e 4,5,6 for White, or d & e 5,4,3 for Black).

Targets are going to be backwards Pawns. To attack these, you want Knight houses within range of these Pawns. To defend these, you want to prevent these houses.

Exchanging a Knight further from the center and advanced center squares (K and Q 6) for one closer to those squares will be a good trade in general. Trading a Knight that has no house for one that does is also a good trade.

The basic strategy will be to entrench as many Knights in the "sweet spot" as possible, and back them up with other Knights so they can't get exchanged off. Limiting the opponent's mobility with Pawns will be crucial.

The question about what you can promote to is very important.