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  2. Bishop and knight checkmate - Wikipedia

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    With the stronger side to move, checkmate can be forced in at most thirty-three moves from almost any starting position. [1] [2] Although it is classified as one of the four basic checkmates, [3] [a] the bishop and knight checkmate occurs in practice only approximately once in every 6,000 games. [4]

  3. Checkmate pattern - Wikipedia

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    The checkmate utilizes a queen and bishop, where the bishop is used to support the queen and the queen is used to engage the checkmate. The checkmate is named after Pedro Damiano . One can also think of similar mates like 'Damiano's knight' and 'Damiano's rook' or even 'Damiano's king' (See Queen mate below), 'Damiano's pawn' or 'Damiano's ...

  4. 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.

  5. MapQuest - AOL Help

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    MapQuest offers online, mobile, business and developer solutions that help people discover and explore where they would like to go, how to get there and what to do along the way and at your destination.

  6. Rules of chess - Wikipedia

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    A bishop moves any number of vacant squares diagonally. (Thus a bishop can move to only light or dark squares, not both.) The queen moves any number of vacant squares horizontally, vertically, or diagonally. A knight moves to one of the nearest squares not on the same rank, file, or diagonal. (This can be thought of as moving two squares ...

  7. Bishop (chess) - Wikipedia

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    A bishop and knight can force mate, but with far greater difficulty than two bishops. In certain positions a bishop can by itself lose a move (see triangulation and tempo), while a knight can never do so. The bishop is capable of skewering or pinning a piece, while the knight can do neither. A bishop can in some situations hinder a knight from ...

  8. 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 ...

  9. MapQuest - Wikipedia

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    In 2004, MapQuest, uLocate, Research in Motion and Nextel launched MapQuest Find Me, a buddy-finder service that worked on GPS-enabled mobile phones. MapQuest Find Me let users automatically find their location, access maps and directions and locate nearby points of interest, including airports, hotels, restaurants, banks and ATMs.