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In chess, the bishop and knight checkmate is the checkmate of a lone king by an opposing king, ... Kd6 Kc8 25. Ke7 (Black is forced to the b-file.) 25... Kb8 26. Kd8 ...
Once the rook is lost, the result is a basic checkmate (king and queen against king), which is easily won. ... 83.Kd5 Rc7 84.Qb4+ Kc8. Black has been forced into a ...
Kc8 (Black's king is confined to c8 and d8; ... The second position is a checkmate by the knight, with the black king on a side square next to the corner. The knight ...
Black is in zugzwang. 5... Rc3. If instead 5...Kc8, then 6.Rb4 Kd8 7.Rf4 Re1 (or 7...Kc8 8.Bd5 Kb8 9.Ra4) 8.Ba4 Kc8 9. Rb4. Now White completes the following maneuvers, getting the bishop back to d5 with gain of tempo. 6.Be6 Rd3+ 7.Bd5! Rc3 8.Rd7+ Kc8. If 8...Ke8, then 9.Rg7 and checkmate on g8 next move, else loss of the rook since the bishop ...
Two knights cannot force checkmate against a lone king ... Kc8! N-any 4. Nc7#. If Black plays the knight to any other square on move 2, White plays Kc8 anyway ...
Black's rook keeps attacking the pawn from the side from some distance away, while preventing the white king from finding cover from checks. [65] The black king must be on the opposite side of their rook as the pawn to not block the attacks. The black rook moves behind the pawn as soon as the pawn moves up to its seventh rank.
Moreover, unlike in the Giuoco Piano, where White's d4 advance attacks Black's king bishop on c5, in the Ponziani d4 will not gain a tempo. On the positive side, the move 3.c3 creates a second diagonal for the white queen. [30] As early as 1904, Marshall wrote that, "There is no point in White's third move unless Black plays badly. ...
Indeed, Black can win the white bishop (for two pawns), but then the game is a draw because of the wrong rook pawn. In the actual game, Black moved 48...Kh3 and the game was drawn after move 54. (No progress can be made with the bishops on opposite colors, see opposite-colored bishop endgame.) In an alternative line, Black can win the white bishop: