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A knight is worth MORE than a bishop
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Aug 1, 2010
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#23
everyboddy has it wrong,
except conquistador. panKakes are round, waffles are nt. now imagine playing chess on a pankake. ona waffle, u can play with abig waffe and sixty foour squares. as pythagoras said after waking up from a dream, circles dont really have planes, do they? the either have one side and no corners, or an infinte amount of edges and corners. circles represent infinty, which there are not as many grains of sand in this world. (petrosian said that there aare as many poosible games of chess as there are grains of sand in this world. but, that number i not infinte. the longest possible game of chess would be 895 moves long. think about it.) circles are better then squares, so there fore pankakes are better than wafles. also, if u put butter on a pankake., it sides arund better. srry i dont have any pictues to go along with.for those of u that know physics actualy read this u understand. for those of u that spell physics with an f...(fysics! lol), i am sorry 2 inform u that i have wasted 10 minutes of your time.
electricpawn wrote:
Many years ago there was a guy at the chess club I went to who was expert level and said he preferred two knights to two bishops. He would throw bishops, knights and pawns on the board and show you why.
I was weaker than him, but he could do it with players his own strength as well. I wish I could remember how he did it!
I have a feeling he locked up the pawns / put them all on one side / etc. He was probably joking around and created a position where knights are clearly better.
FullmetalAlchemist wrote:
everyboddy has it wrong,
except conquistador. panKakes are round, waffles are nt. now imagine playing chess on a pankake. ona waffle, u can play with abig waffe and sixty foour squares. as pythagoras said after waking up from a dream, circles dont really have planes, do they? the either have one side and no corners, or an infinte amount of edges and corners. circles represent infinty, which there are not as many grains of sand in this world. (petrosian said that there aare as many poosible games of chess as there are grains of sand in this world. but, that number i not infinte. the longest possible game of chess would be 895 moves long. think about it.) circles are better then squares, so there fore pankakes are better than wafles. also, if u put butter on a pankake., it sides arund better. srry i dont have any pictues to go along with.for those of u that know physics actualy read this u understand. for those of u that spell physics with an f...(fysics! lol), i am sorry 2 inform u that i have wasted 10 minutes of your time.
It's difficult to take your argument seriously without pictures.
MyCowsCanFly wrote:
FullmetalAlchemist wrote:
everyboddy has it wrong,
except conquistador. panKakes are round, waffles are nt. now imagine playing chess on a pankake. ona waffle, u can play with abig waffe and sixty foour squares. as pythagoras said after waking up from a dream, circles dont really have planes, do they? the either have one side and no corners, or an infinte amount of edges and corners. circles represent infinty, which there are not as many grains of sand in this world. (petrosian said that there aare as many poosible games of chess as there are grains of sand in this world. but, that number i not infinte. the longest possible game of chess would be 895 moves long. think about it.) circles are better then squares, so there fore pankakes are better than wafles. also, if u put butter on a pankake., it sides arund better. srry i dont have any pictues to go along with.for those of u that know physics actualy read this u understand. for those of u that spell physics with an f...(fysics! lol), i am sorry 2 inform u that i have wasted 10 minutes of your time.
It's difficult to take your argument seriously without pictures.
If I may:
You see, the butter on a pancake can evenly spread to all corners of the surface area of the pancake due to its circular shape.
But a waffle on the other hand has squares where the butter will pool so you do not get an even distribution.
This is FullmetalAlchemist's theory.
Pancakes are round, but pie are squared.
To the OP:
Put a knight in the center of the board. (d4,5 e4,5). How many squares at maximum can it cover? 8. Now do the same with a bishop. 13. The maneuverability of a piece dictates its value. The queen is no more powerful of an attacker than a pawn. Both can capture once per turn just as effectively. That's why a bishop is normally worth more. But if you were to have 14 pawns on the board linked up in a crazy chain, then a bishop might only cover 3 squares and becomes weak.
Aug 2, 2010
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#32
rooperi wrote:
MyCowsCanFly wrote:
FullmetalAlchemist wrote:
everyboddy has it wrong,
except conquistador. panKakes are round, waffles are nt. now imagine playing chess on a pankake. ona waffle, u can play with abig waffe and sixty foour squares. as pythagoras said after waking up from a dream, circles dont really have planes, do they? the either have one side and no corners, or an infinte amount of edges and corners. circles represent infinty, which there are not as many grains of sand in this world. (petrosian said that there aare as many poosible games of chess as there are grains of sand in this world. but, that number i not infinte. the longest possible game of chess would be 895 moves long. think about it.) circles are better then squares, so there fore pankakes are better than wafles. also, if u put butter on a pankake., it sides arund better. srry i dont have any pictues to go along with.for those of u that know physics actualy read this u understand. for those of u that spell physics with an f...(fysics! lol), i am sorry 2 inform u that i have wasted 10 minutes of your time.
It's difficult to take your argument seriously without pictures.
If I may:
thank you.
Terricotta Su**s! F***ken soreloser! For Real!
adrenn wrote:
Terricotta Su**s! F***ken soreloser! For Real!
I'm sorry I called you stupid
Aug 2, 2010
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#36
Just today I had a cream puff. First time ever. It was amazing.
Ly good.
rigamagician wrote:
White to play and win.
I gave up and put it into Nalimov... the best white can do is Nd2+ / b8=Q / b8=R all of which white is mated in 16 
Correction: sometimes a knight is worth more than a bishop.
I mean hell sometimes a knight is worth more than a rook, or even a queen if she causes stalemate or something.
...my reasonings behind this outlandish conclusion are...at least... i think
You may argue ...thats about it.
That's what I got out of it.