What does don Quixote mean? What language? And very impressive btw
A funny knight maneuver
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Should lead you here pretty quick:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tilting_at_windmills
Um thank you but as I am on the IPad I'd rather people who have keyboards do that for me as they can type rather quickly compared to texting
Here's Don Quixote:
Since this tactic is sort of a weird sort of "windmill" with Knight, well, hopefully you get the idea.
Very clever, sacrificing the other knight to trap the queen behind the pawns and then bring back the bishop for the triple-diagonal danger zone. the rest is basically forced (he could have chosen to take the bishop on d2, not that that's any better as far as I can tell).
Thank you. I particularly like that the Black Queen is repeatedly lured back to the scene of the "crime", e.g., 14...Qxb5, until the slain cavalier's comrade can take revenge (with the assistance of the f1 cleric).
Or something like that.
...cleric?
Bishops are clerics.
They are?
bish·op (b
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n.
1. A high-ranking Christian cleric, in modern churches usually in charge of a diocese and in some churches regarded as having received the highest ordination in unbroken succession from the apostles.
2. Abbr. B Games A usually miter-shaped chess piece that can move diagonally across any number of unoccupied spaces.
3. Mulled port spiced with oranges, sugar, and cloves.
Incidentally, here's a picture of definition #3:
I love little moments like these. Nice work.
Mulled port spiced with oranges, sugar, and cloves to b5!
JamieKowalski wrote:
I love little moments like these. Nice work.
Thanks, dunno if it was entirely sound (there's probably other ways to win and 14. c5 could have been met by 14...Bxc5), but if nothing else I learned a new drink to order.
Very fun tactic :D
Thanks. The sequence reminds me slightly of something that might have gone in Tim Krabbe's old blog (he doesn't seem to update it much these days):
http://timkr.home.xs4all.nl/chess/
Stigmatisert wrote:
Is it possible to make a puzzle out of it?
(I'd love to see it as a puzzle on this site)
Perhaps, but I'm not sure how to submit it as such.
I've managed a Philidor's mate a few times, though opponents often irritatingly resign one move before the smother.
This "Don Quixote" pattern I've (probably) never seen in a real game, though I imagine there's composed problems with it. Any specialists in that field wish to opine?
That said, here's a somewhat more famous knight's "tour":
Not sure what to call this tactic, sort of a knight windmill... perhaps I could dub this the "Don Quixote" maneuver?