What would we do without Coach to guide us?

Watch chess video is the best thing you can do.

My post was tongue in cheek if you look carefully, but didn't like the video as far as I got. Recommending BxN after 1.e4 g6 2.d4 Nh6 can't be good. I stopped there.

Just wait for others advice

I'm sure he does, but he's still talking nonsense there.

Black's just moved his knight out to a square where the only way forward is backward and the best thing to do is swap a perfectly good bishop for it?

I would return to aimlessly walking around blabbering.

Does he know more than Stockfish? I've checked with SF15.1 and it values the position after the first two moves as 1.21 in favour of White and the position after 3.BxN as 0.35 in favour of Black.

But the point of my original post seems to have been missed.

Anyone who has studied Philidor's method in this endgame knows that the only accurate move is the one I made (it holds out three moves longer than Kf1).

Coach tells me I made one blunder in the endgame and that was it!

Pretty creepy, the coach thing.

go on youtube and find lessons there

1. e4 g6 2. d4 Nh6 3. Bxh6 is an appalling move by white. Black's development is very slow that way, so white doesn't solve black's problem by taking the weak knight with the strong bishop.

I actually did a lot of intensive practice in KBNK against the Nalimov tablebase four or five years ago (I think well over 1000 positions) with the aim of reliably mating in the least number of moves or defending to the greatest number, so I don't actually need lessons on the endgame. I worked out a reliable method of just winning from winning positions from scratch around 1975.

A lot of the online stuff is not worth watching anyway.

Correction: go on youtube and find ACTUALLY EDUCATIONAL AND HELPFUL TEACHERS

Some of it's good though. Off the top of my head, taking that knight is good in only one circumstance. If white could force black into an Orthodox King's Indian, Black's weakest piece is the dark squared bishop. Black's strongest piece is the light squared bishop. Both of white's bishops are about as strong as one-another since white does best by trying to reach an ending with three minor pieces each and winning on the queenside. Probably black's knights are useful, although without one of them, black's less cramped. There are a few positions where white would profit from the exchange of B for N but there's no way such positions can be forced and basically white is aiding black's development. That best thing white can do is probably to attack with h4 etc fast but it shouldn't win or anything like that. Black's normal plan is to play f6 and bring the N back to f7 where it supports e5. It's horribly slow for black and white should develop normally and fast and should be aggressive in the centre.

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