Knights

Yeah, that's annoying. But something you can learn to handle pretty easily. When defending and a knight is anywhere in the area, remember that they can only threaten the same color squares at one time and it is the opposite of the color they are on at the moment. And they switch colors squares when they move. So if your king and queen (or king and rook) are on the same color squares, be watchful for knight on that some color square. Because when that knight moves, it will change square colors to be able to attack them and may be able to fork them. Of course, trying to keep your king and queen on different color squares (all other things being equal) makes them safe from knight forks.

This all sounds more confusing than it is. Just look up a video on knights and square colors and it's pretty easy once you see it.

As for the classic rook/king fork early in the game, just make sure to keep the pawn square in front of your queen side bishop defended. Initially, the queen has it covered, but if you move your queen early (I generally recommend against unless you are experienced with it) you need to make sure something else defends the square (if knights are in play). If your opponent is aiming two pieces at that square (say bishop and knight) then the queen won't be enough and you should either recruit another piece to defend that square or move one of the two pieces that might be forked.

This might also be a problem you have when attacking. You need to make sure that square is undefended. Or if it is defended by the queen (as it usually is) that you have another piece threatening it (usually a bishop) so that when you move your knight there, if they take it with the queen you capture her with the bishop.

Hope that helps!

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So you think I only had 1 true sentence?

Are you suggesting Bishops are not Divine and Holy?

If we asked the average person, Do you think they would think Bishops are Divine & Holy?

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Also, you don’t think the Pin is mightier vs. Sword?

Knights r kinda cool.

Knights are better at forking pieces

Ok so this forum is basically knights vs bishops but how about they work together

Black wins easily. All black needs to do is to play Qe5 or Qd4 (any Q) on move 2, and then white gets checkmated very quickly. Your "puzzle" doesn't work the way you think it does.

Good thing black was a 100 elo

Also white could maybe pull off a stalemate

I call this the meme draw gambit

Meme draw is when both players shuffle their knights till its a draw

If black uses even a couple of brain cells, it's not going to happen.

Maybe next time you should check your puzzle before publishing it.

Well the puzzle above your comment is better take a look at it

In that last posting, white cant move since they dont have a king, thus they have already lost the game.

And yes bishops cant usually fork, unless they take a piece first. Rooks are the same. Only queen and knights usually fork. In fact really nobody forks as well as queens.

The main problem with knights is that its harder for human beings to keep track of all their possible moves. On the other hand they have steep disadvantages, it takes them multiple moves to go from one side of the board to another. So ideally you want them as a thorn in the side of the opponent in the center.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knights_Templar