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16 hrs ago
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#25
#20, everyone knows that, but still, in real life most of the cases the rook is stronger than a knight or a bishop.
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12 hrs ago
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#28
All of the other pieces move along open lines. Bishops move along diagonal lines, Rooks along horizontal or vertical lines, Queens along any available open line... and that is why those pieces can be blocked. No open lines? No movement.
The Knights are the rebels of the chessboard. They contemptuously reject your buttoned-down unimaginative "horizontal/vertical/diagonal" conventions and instead move directly from point to point, not along an open line... and this is why a Knight cannot be blocked.
11 hrs ago
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#30
A bishop can half a Knights moves by blocking it by going 2 spaces in front of it or to the side of it forcing it to go away from where it was heading and if the knight is somehow on the A or h files a bishop going 2 squares to the side completely corners the knight. You can also exploit the knights blind spots.
11 hrs ago
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#31
Fetoxo wrote:
#14 knight versus rook is not a big question, in the 99.9% of the positions a rook is much stronger. But the bishop versus knight is a big question indeed.
I agree.
In openings (and in other parts of the game too) - knights and bishops often play cat and mouse with the roles often reversing.
Many regard bishops as stronger but given all the contextes they work out more like 'equal' but different. Of the six piece types they're the only two that approximately do so 'on average'.
Can one accurately generalize about knights and bishops?
Up to a point.
Knight can cover all 64 squares. Bishops only 32.
Bishops often shine when they're pinning a knight.
Giving up bishop for knight is often condemned - but its often very good.
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