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  2. Bishop and knight checkmate - Wikipedia

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    Video explaining the bishop and knight checkmate using the W manoeuvre; Video explaining the bishop and knight checkmate using Delétang's triangle method; A remarkable diploma thesis in Spanish about the bishop and knight checkmate with many game examples in the annex (Trabajo Final del Diplomado Fundamentos Científicos y Metodológicos del ...

  3. Checkmate pattern - Wikipedia

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    The bishop and knight mate is one of the four basic checkmates and occurs when the king works together with a bishop and knight to force the opponent king to the corner of the board. The bishop and knight endgame can be difficult to master: some positions may require up to 34 moves of perfect play before checkmate can be delivered.

  4. Outline of chess - Wikipedia

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    Bishop and knight checkmate – fundamental checkmate with a minimum amount of material. It is notoriously difficult to achieve. It is notoriously difficult to achieve. Boden's Mate – checkmate pattern characterized by a king being mated by two bishops on criss-crossing diagonals, with possible flight squares blocked by friendly pieces.

  5. Rules of chess - Wikipedia

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    Left to right: king, rook, queen, pawn, knight, bishop. The rules of chess (also known as the laws of chess) govern the play of the game of chess. Chess is a two-player abstract strategy board game. Each player controls sixteen pieces of six types on a chessboard. Each type of piece moves in a distinct way.

  6. Smothered mate - Wikipedia

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    Philidor's mate, also known as Philidor's legacy, is a checkmating pattern that ends in smothered mate. This method involves checking with the knight forcing the king out of the corner of the board, moving the knight away to deliver a double check from the queen and knight, sacrificing the queen to force the rook next to the king, and mating with the knight.

  7. Chess piece relative value - Wikipedia

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    An unexpected result from empirical computer studies is that the princess (a bishop-knight compound) and empress (a rook-knight compound) have almost exactly the same value, even though the lone rook is two pawns stronger than the lone bishop. The empress is about 50 centipawns weaker than the queen, and the princess 75 centipawns weaker than ...

  8. List of chess variants - Wikipedia

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    Some examples of this may be that the king and queen are flipped, or the knight on the b-file is traded with the bishop on the f-file. Double Chess by Julian Hayward. Double chess: Two full armies per side on a 12×16 board, the first to mate an enemy king wins. Pawns advance up to four steps on their first move.

  9. King's Fianchetto Opening - Wikipedia

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    White's 1.g3 ranks as the fifth most popular opening move, but it is far less popular than 1.e4, 1.d4, 1.c4 and 1.Nf3. It is usually followed by 2.Bg2, fianchettoing the bishop. Nick de Firmian writes that 1.g3 "can, and usually does, transpose into almost any other opening in which White fianchettos his king's bishop". [2]