Knight and Queen can be devastating in the endgame!

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Knights, with their L-shaped moves, ability to jump over pieces, and potentially occupy every square, are perhaps the piece that is most difficult to visualise a few moves ahead. At least, for ordinary human minds at the beginner-intermediate level. This makes the knight the best piece to attempt traps for the opponent, as knight forks can be difficult to visualise and anticipate. In the game I played today, my opponent and I were mostly equal in the middle game. I entered towards the endgame with queen and knight, and they with queen and bishop. As we’ll see in the game, the combination of knight and queen was very powerful.

The queen subsumes the possible movements of all other pieces except one, the knight. This means that the queen and knight together, allows for tactics that even two queens cannot achieve. In this game, my opponent’s queen and bishop were relatively boxed in as we each still had 6 pawns each in play. This gave a substantial advantage to my knight, as it could jump over lines of pawns. Once my queen took control of the only open file in the centre of the board, the advantage became overwhelming.

I hope you enjoyed this video, and thanks for watching!

Game on chess.com: https://www.chess.com/game/live/39335995685 

Originally published: https://adventuresofachessnoob.com/2022/03/02/knight-and-queen-can-be-devastating-in-the-endgame/