Bishops and Knights are equal

That must be special for you, I read a book once too

Haha, but anyway, I'm willing to leave it at we disagree.  What we know is probably very similar, we just don't communicate very well with eachother.

Great recipe for a long lasting topic btw.

well bishops are 3.5 because they are useful more often than knights.

My opponents knights are always worth more than my bishops.

And his bishops are always worth more than my knights. 

The good bishop is the one you still have left on the board.

supposively a bishop is half a point mre than a knight but thats nonsense. it depends on the position. like whether the position is opened or closed, whether who has initiative. there's a lot of things to hold in perspective. it's not that black and white!

This "debate" is the same as asking,

"Are the king side pawns better or worse than the queen side pawns?"

Psshhh. Everyone knows kingside pawns are better in open positions.

do you know how many times this subject has been debated.

generally speaking yes a bishop is slightly better. one simple way of looking at is by placing a knight in the center of the board then counting the # of squares it occupies which is 8 squares. now put a bishop there. the bishop occupies 13 squares in the middle of the board. therefore the bishop is stronger!

You seem to want some simple and immutable rules about minor piece superiority.  This will make you a very bad analyst.

they r supposedly equal. their effects depend on the game.

Interestingly, KBB vs. KN can force mate.

OMG!

It's reported that the + 0.5 in value over the N is due only to the bishop pair. Because of its color blindness the mobility of a lone bishop is useless if it has no targets . 

 I was surprised too. Check a tablebase to see how.

And the Rainman was an excellent driver.

Chess is not so easy!

Won a sweet endgame good knight vs. bad bishop last night, would post the game but it was G-30 and I couldn't get all the moves.  My king was ultra active so it was almost like I was playing with an extra minor piece.  I find players below 2000 have a much harder time calculating knights than bishops.  This is not the first time this has happened.  I've won at least two one other "equal" positions with knight vs. bishop in the endgame, often with pawns on both sides of the board.

Rainman was the character (Tom Cruise) in the movie, "Rainman". Actually "Raymond" but savant brother thought it was rainman.

Dustin Hoffman was the rainman, not Cruise.

EDIT:  I just noticed the nickname was two separate words, not one.