the trickiest peice in chess?
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earltony15
Dec 11, 2007
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#41
it's the knight. it can finish an opponent or finish you in a heartbeat.
The knight gets my vote for two reasons. The knight fork is one and the fact that it is the most difficult piece to see 3 or 4 moves ahead with
I have never heard tournament players refer to "officers" in chess. When they are talking of the pieces ( NOT PAWNS) they will sometimes distinguish between major (rooks and queen) and minor (bishops and knights) pieces. Officers? hehehehhe
As for being "tricky" a knight can cross from one part of the board to any other part in 4 moves but to move from a1 to b2 also takes 4 moves! If thats not tricky what is? Beginners always seem to have the most problems learning the knight and not the pawns , even with the pawns "special qualities" . In my teaching experience though it seems to be the rook that most players have the hardest time learning how to use. I know how to use the rooks but am never sure WHICH one to use! 
Here is an example of tricky play with pawns. This is probably the simplest example of a pawn breakthrough in the endgame. They only get trickier!
I think that knight
The knight ,no doubt, is the trickiest piece.
"Beginners always seem to have the most problems learning the knight and not the pawns"
Beginners have trouble with pawns, but it's eclipsed by other errors, such as hanging material and walking into basic tactics. Once players learn to hold onto material by seeing basic tactics and looking ahead 3-ply to avoid material loss, strategic elements such as the arrangement of pawns become important. Here's an opening where I played Black. Moves 5-8, the battle of central pawns, determined the nature of the whole game.
Black wins the half-open c-file and has more central influence.
Loomis wrote:
The pawn is the trickiest piece because it cannot go backwards. This aspect of the pawn means that when you move it, it can never return to its old duties. It can sometimes be very tricky to figure out when is the right time to move a pawn.
agreed
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The knight
Where and how and why do people find these threads? This one, for example, was buried and forgotten for 16 years until someone revived it... to add absolutely nothing.
May 15, 2023
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#53
The knight is the trickiest because when you deliver a check with a knight there are only 2 options
1.Move the king 🤴
2. Capture the knight
You can not block the check from the knight.
So it is probably the trickiest piece
1.Move the king 🤴
2. Capture the knight
You can not block the check from the knight.
So it is probably the trickiest piece
So I am doing a project in school as a 6th grader and I want to find the trickiest piece in chess and I would actually the knight because it took me years to understand it
Aug 27, 2024
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#55
I guess the knight is trickiest, but it’s probably my favorite piece. I love galloping around the board early game with the two of them in tight combination slaying anything in their path. Inevitably though they will die, but hopefully they have caused mass carnage by then.
I am only new, but recently my brain started recognizing knight patterns without me even having to give it much if any thought. That’s pretty cool. I’m still noob though so ofc make blunders at times.
Nov 21, 2024
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#56
Loomis wrote:
The pawn is the trickiest piece because it cannot go backwards. This aspect of the pawn means that when you move it, it can never return to its old duties. It can sometimes be very tricky to figure out when is the right time to move a pawn.
You used google but i agree
Nov 22, 2024
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#57
Knights because they can jump over pieces but can only move in a L shape
Jan 22, 2025
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#58
I would say king is trickiest. I always have trouble saving him.
