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The Age of Knight
The Age of Knight

The Age of Knight

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Knight is always the most difficult piece to understand in chess. The movement is very unique. It is the only piece that is able to jump over another piece. It may move two squares vertically and one square horizontally or two squares horizontally and one square vertically. Up to today I always find it difficult to see Knight's attack, but at the same time, shiny Knight rescued me plenty of times too. 

2 Knight Check Mate

This game started fast and furious. All the bishops were exchanged early and we arrived at this position on move 14. I moved my pawn to f5 to open up f-file for my h rook.  Either he took my f5 pawn with his e pawn, then I will take back using my queen which will then be well positioned to moved to f7 to check mate the king. If he didn't take, I will take the e6 pawn and when he took back using his f7 pawn the f-file will be open for my h rook to operate. 

This is why I am only rate 400+ in blitz and 700+ in rapid. I didn't anticipate that he could just threaten my knight by moving his f pawn forward, but this also opened up g6 for my knight to occupy, threatening to capture the rook. 

He then tried to chase away my other knight, c6!!! I didn't think he noticed that he just opened up the d6 square for my other knight to come in and checkmate the king. g6 will control e7 and f8. d6 knight will check the king and covered the only escape route f7. 

Having said that, I totally missed it too. I took his h8 rook and he resigned directly after that. It was not exactly 2 Knight Checkmate, but it would be cool if I noticed it. Below is the full game. 

My Fork is STRONGER Than Yours !!!

I like this game a lot and knight really shines brightly in this game. Let's start with move 14.

 

His knight move forward to d5 and everything seems under control. The only piece he was threatening was my e7 pawn. I moved my rook to e8 and everything was well covered. His next move were really scary e6!!! With that one pawn move, he suddenly threatened my d7 knight at the same time his knight can jump into e7 threatening both rooks. I would not be able to take using my queen because e7 would be covered by his f4 bishop. Horror!!!

As much as I hated his knight, I loved my knight too, so I decided to take e6 pawn with my f pawn and he promptly forked both my rooks. I couldn't see a way for me to save my rook, so I started hunting his queen. I found the move c4 and he moved his queen to d2 offering queen exchange. 
I found another fantastic move here, queen to a2!!! I was ready to checkmate him on a8 next but he noticed it and quickly opened up an escape route pawn to c3.

 
This was when I realized why I was protecting my knight. It was about time for my knight to enter the battlefield. I rode my knight to c5, looking back and saying goodbye to my rook. Let's go !!!
His knight executed my h rook on the next move. I was saddened by my rook death, but my knight was ready. In no time at all,  my knight galloped to b3 square screaming: MY FORK IS STRONGER THAN YOURS!!! 
Check to the king while forking the queen, revenge never tasted so sweet. His king have to move and my knight promptly devour the queen. Few moves later, my queen delivered the checkmate. She could here the knight echo from the shadow. MY FORK IS STRONGER THAN YOURS.... YOURS... YOURS.... 
Below are the full game as usual. Until next time !!!