i am looking forward to read them!
Knight Guide for Beginners.
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May 11, 2025
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2 diagonal rule
The safest square for your king is 2 squares diagonally to the knight.
It would take 3 knight hops for it to give a check, which would be a waste of moves for your opponent. .
May 11, 2025
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Same colour square rule
If your king and piece are on the same colour squares as the knight, there is a good chance you will be forked. This is because of the nature of the knight which moves to the opposite colour square every turn.
In-order to avoid this, ensure your pieces are always on different colour squares to each other or the knight, therefore it is impossible for the knight to fork your pieces.
The knight can give a check but can never attack the rook
The knight can attack the rook but can never check the king
The knight is on the wrong colour, it cant attack anything!
May 11, 2025
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Additional Info
There are some moderate safe positions for your king compared to your knight, where two hops will gives a check. Sometimes it is impossible for you to use the 2 diagonal rule so compromises must be made.
May 11, 2025
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Handy tips! These also apply very well for standard chess endgames.
These are great! Thank you, Danny
Crazy tips, thanks for sharing (you made my day)!
May 13, 2025
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Lets use knights fork now!
Knight forks are seldom seen in raij. There are almost no pieces to do that. 24-3-12=9 pieces
I feel like forks in Raji are one of the most important endgame ideas
May 13, 2025
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#14
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I feel like forks in Raji are one of the most important endgame ideas
I only ever do pawn forks
May 14, 2025
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#15
Bird-Seed wrote:
I feel like forks in Raji are one of the most important endgame ideas
Not really, pawn promotion and points top everything
Knights can be tricky pieces to calculate and its easy to run into forks or checks.
At the beginning of the game, a knight can jump over pawns, becoming active very quickly. When unrestricted a knight can jump to a maximum of 8 squares as shown by the pic below.