Knight Moves

Just out of interest, does anyone move the knight, or think about moving the knight 'backwards'?

As in, if you're playing 1. Nf3, you think the route of the knight is g1-f1-f2-f3, instead of g1-g2-g3-f3 (which I assume is the normal way of thinking about it).

If there is any difference, does this have anything to do with left-handed or right-handed people, or the different set-up of people's brains?

isn't it a little slow to think of it as g1-g2-g3-f3, or g1-f1-f2-f3? u could move it to f3 without this hassle.

funnt forum this, as when I was young, I used to go to a club called night moves!

Why would it be necessary?

I'm just talking about how you visualise the knight move. Ng1-f3 is an example. I think about it as if the knight's moving g1-g2-g3-f3, and was wondering if other people, say left-handed people, visualise it differently. It's not important, I was just curious.

When I was learning, I use to visualize it that way, don't remember which of the two options.  Then I went to f1, f2, g3.  Now I don't even really think about it.

I go for g1-g2-g3-f3; I go for the long side of the "L" first and then turn.  But it's unconscious, and my mind just erases that and what I do is just go to the target square directly.  In complicated positions, the color of the square helps a lot, and sometimes I just look at the colors.  BTW, I'm right-handed.

The way you visualize how the Knight moves is not what matters. (As long as you are making legal moves!) It comes to the same thing no matter how you look at it.

I don't really visualize it either way.  I guess after playing chess for so long, I just automatically see which destination squares are legitimate, rather than going through a subconscious procedure to figure it out.

Unfortunately, that still doesn't prevent me from sometimes overlooking some of those squares.

I'm the same, but say you consciously visualise the move, or imagine it being highlighted for beginners. Which way round would it be then? I'm really just curious to see if anyone would do it the way that seems reverse to me (g1-f1-f2-f3), and if they do whether they're left-handed.

Hello Gabriel. Odd topic. It sounds more like a bit of popular psychology than of chess but it's still interesting. I'd imagine that those among us who deal quite a bit with mathmatical problems might think of the move as being first horizontal and then vertical as that is how graphs are set up. But even then I'd imagine that they would only think of it that way while they are beginning. After a while it becomes a matter of pattern recognition and where a piece might be placed more than a visualization of how a piece might be moved.