is it possible to mate with bishop and knight?

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RAIF999
Is it possible to mate with bishop and knight?
gingerninja2003

yes. really hard but yes.

willowpark
You can as gingerninja2003 it is very hard most of the chess players don't know how to do it
the_crab

That's a very interesting question. I pass.

willowpark
Well it's hardly seen so that's why not lots of people know The checkmate with the bishop and knight
Mike-960

I recently did it in one of my games just for fun, lol. Don't pay attention to my rating. I'm really 2000+ I just haven't played that many games on this site.



the_crab

Just keep moving your pieces until you hit pay dirt.

Well done.

Manoel
@Sanju_1996d Exactly, it's not bishop + knight, it's bishop + knight + king, which is a big difference (as opposed to let's say rook + rook or rook + queen).
AGW2016

you never said there couldnt be other pieces to help, did you?

 

CeesIJzermans

Yes, it is. Practicing it helps you to understand a bit about cooperation between those two particular pieces, but it shouldn't be that helpful to your overall game. At the time I was rated 1500 national elo, I once got a game where my opponent sacrificed a rook for a pawn and hoped I didn't know how to mate, and he was right. Slightly thereafter I learned the thematics by heart, but in roughly 10 years I never got it again in a serious chess match. Once saw a video where a titled female player didn't know how to checkmate either, was for a world match if I remember correctly haha, so you shouldn't be ashamed if you don't know how to

CeesIJzermans
Mike-960 wrote:

I recently did it in one of my games just for fun, lol. Don't pay attention to my rating. I'm really 2000+ I just haven't played that many games on this site.



 

Your opponent really helped you a lot by diving right into the (in)correct corner, and no attempts to escape. Frankly, your technique could use an update tongue.png

Federal_romzy

yea shure ... but with the help of the king a night and bishop can deliver a mate a queen and a king can also deliver a mate

Federal_romzy

yea shure ... but with the help of the king a night and bishop can deliver a mate a queen and a king can also deliver a mate

MickinMD
RAIF999 wrote:
Is it possible to mate with bishop and knight?

Yes, it's not that hard, but it's sometimes tough to get it in 50 moves if you're rusty on the technique. The main thing is to drive the opponent's King into a corner that's the same color your Bishop travels on and then to use zugzwang to maneuver into one of a couple possible mating positions.

Mike-960
CeesIJzermans wrote:
Mike-960 wrote:

I recently did it in one of my games just for fun, lol. Don't pay attention to my rating. I'm really 2000+ I just haven't played that many games on this site.



 

Your opponent really helped you a lot by diving right into the (in)correct corner, and no attempts to escape. Frankly, your technique could use an update 

Well I wasn't taking the game very seriously and was just blitzing out my moves. Here's one against Stockfish: