Knight for middlegame/closed positions
Bishops for endgames
I like bishop better, and so most GM';s would agree also.
Knight or Bishop
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Knight or bishop--which is better?
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Are women as good at chess as men?
They're different. If you have more of one than your opponent you can do yourself a big favor and steer the game toward an advantage for your minor pieces.
Or, through trades, you can sometimes give yourself an advantage by trading your less useful pieces for their more useful pieces. An example would be, in a closed game, trading your bishops for your opponent's knights.
It might devolve to which is the heavier piece, as girls don't have the upper-body strength that guys do, and so would tend to favor the piece that strains them less to move.
goldendog wrote:
It might devolve to which is the heavier piece, as girls don't have the upper-body strength that guys do, and so would tend to favor the piece that strains them less to move.
Well, there is more to consider. Knights are heavier, but they tend to occupy outposts for longer periods of time, so they don't have to be moved so often....
rooperi wrote:
goldendog wrote:
It might devolve to which is the heavier piece, as girls don't have the upper-body strength that guys do, and so would tend to favor the piece that strains them less to move.
Well, there is more to consider. Knights are heavier, but they tend to occupy outposts for longer periods of time, so they don't have to be moved so often....
Chess is indeed a profound game. A clever guy would arrange positions where the woman would tend to play sub-optimal moves over time in deferrence to her physical weakness, and eventually her game would be inferior and then lost.
One clever gambit a girl could use is to hit the gym and increase her upper-body strength, and maybe use extra-heavy pieces to train at home. Then, when the tournament begins, wear a t-shirt that says something like "I am physically weak" on the front.
The guy would be making inferior moves based on the false premise of that weakness and then *he* would find himself the victim of the gambit.
Chess is so rich.
Bishops. Knights are tricky, but if your opponent plays carefully, eventually you run out of tricks and are in the endgame. There, the bishop flies all over the board while the knight has to constantly waste several moves getting to each action spot.
tonydal wrote:
If Kasparov or Fischer were a woman, which would be better?
Would an actual bishop (or a knight) prefer bishops or knights?
Your latter supposition makes me sick to my stomach. Abominations, horrors, and freaks would result.
Ok I was playing today and a interested question popped up in my head which one from your opinions is better a knight or a bishop or are they still equal.