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  2. Bishop and knight checkmate - Wikipedia

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    In chess, the bishop and knight checkmate is the checkmate of a lone king by an opposing king, bishop, and knight.With the stronger side to move, checkmate can be forced in at most thirty-three moves from almost any starting position.

  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. Chess Kids - Wikipedia

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    Chess Kids is an Australian company (registered business name Chess World Australia Pty Ltd) that provides a range of chess-related products and services to schools, individuals and chess clubs. Services include coaching and recreational programs, and vacation-seminars they refer to as "incursions". [1]

  5. Scholar's mate - Wikipedia

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    The Fried Liver Attack even involves a sacrifice of the knight on f7. In the Frankenstein–Dracula Variation of the Vienna Game (1.e4 e5 2.Nc3 Nf6 3.Bc4 Nxe4), threatening checkmate with 4.Qh5 is the only way for White to play for an advantage. The Modern Defense, Monkey's Bum variation involves White threatening a Scholar's mate with an early ...

  6. Légal Trap - Wikipedia

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    ) without succumbing to a checkmate in two moves, 5...Nxe5 would win the white knight (for the pawn) and protect the bishop on g4. Instead, with 5.h3, White "puts the question" to the bishop which must either retreat on the c8–h3 diagonal, capture the knight, be captured, or as in this game, move to an insecure square.

  7. Checkmate - Wikipedia

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    Two basic checkmate positions are shown with a bishop and a knight, or the bishop and knight checkmate. [40] The first position is a checkmate by the bishop, with the black king in the corner. The bishop can be on other squares along the diagonal, the white king and knight have to be on squares that attack g8 and h7.

  8. Danvers Opening - Wikipedia

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    The Danvers Opening hinders this by forcing Black (unless they want to sacrifice a pawn) to first defend the e-pawn (usually with 2...Nc6), then 3.Bc4 forces Black to make some compromise to defend against the mate threat; 3...g6 commits Black to fianchettoing the king bishop, 3...Qe7 blocks the bishop, and 3...Qf6 occupies knight's best square.

  9. Exchange (chess) - Wikipedia

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    Exchanges can appear in connection with practically any kind of attacking or defensive chess tactic or combination of tactics. Such tactics can involve checkmating the opponent, avoiding checkmate, gaining a material advantage, avoid losing more material than necessary, helping a pawn to promote, preventing an opponent's pawn promotion, or setting up a draw by any of a couple methods.