to be honest, i've never had to mate with a bishop and knight in any type of game. if you're up 2 pieces, it i usually is possible to avoid the endgame.
Should i learn the bishop and knight vs king checkmate?
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PLAYtoWINtheGAME wrote:
its so easy? I think your a fool for your blatant disrespect to a simple question i asked.
I agree with you. Even GM`s have messed this one up and had to draw.
ChessOath wrote:
PLAYtoWINtheGAME wrote:
its so easy? I think your a fool for your blatant disrespect to a simple question i asked.
I didn't disrespect your question. I gave you the obvious and correct answer. As for me finding it easy. I truely did. It's just the truth. I watched a quick video then did a quick exercise (if I remember correctly) and I found it very easy. I was a much worse player than you are now when that happened. I thought everything about it was obvious. I haven't disrespected anything.
You must not get around much. Most people have trouble with this.
As a 1050 player on chess.com, I have not mastered this endgame, but have played it once or twice. I think it's a beneficial exercise for anyone to try once, because it makes you work to understand how to coordinate a bishop, knight, and king to attack various squares, wall off regions of the board, and really get the most coverage out of a small, eclectic set of pieces.
I would definitely play through this once or twice as an exercise (took me about an hour on my first go-through), even though it probably won't come up often in practice.
It is a hard checkmate, but it is not fundamental...
You could learn it if you want to, but there are probably other aspects you should focus on first.
I recommend learning the endgame because you'll get better at the endgame and middlegame. By learning how the bishop and knight complement each other, you'll develop a more intuitive understanding of how to play the middlegame and endgame. Also, it is fairly easy to learn. All you have to do is centralize every piece, push the opponents king to a corner your bishop controls, and checkmate it. It is doubtful you'll ever see this scenario in an OTB game, but it can be helpful in more common scenarios such as a bishop and knight vs. Rook endgame.
Also, I have a youtube channel for new chess players here:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrcs75yPaYK6P3nNnyCkBPA
Jan 4, 2018
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Learn the final mating position at least. Then at least you know what you are shooting for. At 1700 this may be easy or challenging. At 1800 or 1900 this should be easy. In over 20,000 games I’ve come across it maybe once. But learning it can teach mating nets for other situations and build your tactical mind.
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