Iambadatchess487380 wrote:
Just look...
HOW???
It may help you understand the possible moves if you allow the entire board to display.
How am I winning a knight??????
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You take his bishop with your bishop, and he recaptures back your bishop with his knight and then you can take his knight with your queen, and eventually you win a knight.
I know, but the engine says If I moved Be2 (i think that's correct?) to Bxg4, then I won a knight. how?
Iambadatchess487380 wrote:
I know, but the engine says If I moved Be2 (i think that's correct?) to Bxg4, then I won a knight. how?
Because Bxg4 (bishop captures bishop) is the starting move of the sequence of of winning a knight. If black does not play Nxg4 then of course you do not win the knight. However you then won the bishop which you have already captured.
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Iambadatchess487380 wrote:
I know, but the engine says If I moved Be2 (i think that's correct?) to Bxg4, then I won a knight. how?
Engine doesn't know what it's talking about. You take a bishop, you won a bishop 
Unless, of course, your opponent takes your bishop. Then the best move would be to take his knight - that's what the engine is talking about!
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Pamvo7 wrote:
Iambadatchess487380 wrote:
I know, but the engine says If I moved Be2 (i think that's correct?) to Bxg4, then I won a knight. how?
Engine doesn't know what it's talking about. You take a bishop, you won a bishop
Well that's what I thought!
Iambadatchess487380 wrote:
Pamvo7 wrote:
Iambadatchess487380 wrote:
I know, but the engine says If I moved Be2 (i think that's correct?) to Bxg4, then I won a knight. how?
Engine doesn't know what it's talking about. You take a bishop, you won a bishop
Well that's what I thought!
If that's what you thought, why ask? The move wins a bishop because after you take the bishop, even though their knight takes, you take their knight, winning a piece.
Iambadatchess487380 wrote:
I know, but the engine says If I moved Be2 (i think that's correct?) to Bxg4, then I won a knight. how?
Good point. The engine's wrong & you won a bishop.
The opponent then has the chance to swap your extra bishop for a knight but what you won was a bishop.
Just look...