one of the examles of elementary endgames
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this is an elementery endgame.. the bishop and knight checkmate is very hard but this is what it looks like after the king is forced to a corner where the bishop can attack..i hope that the beginners may take benefit from it like i did
Nice and easy!
u could have started it at a much further distance mate...
yes but it is too hard and i got this one as i was studying the elementary endgames
Nice!
thanx
yes it is
Sep 26, 2008
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This was mate in three. It is not such an elementary or basic checkmate if it starts in the center or the wrong corner. Since there are only two pieces it can be called elementary, but is not for beginners. They should learn the simpler mates. At a chess education meeting at the US Senior Championship in 2004, Roman Pelts told the story of two Russian masters who adjourned a game with this ending. Games used to be adjourned and resumed another time. The master with the two pieces went to the library to get a book to study the position. All the chess books were out. The same thing happened at every library he went to. Apparently he had no helpful book at home. Just as this was when adjournments were still used, it preceded computers and internet service. Upon resumption of play, the game was drawn. A Russian master learned that he could not win with a bishop and a knight without a book to review the position because his opponent had emptied the libraries of their chess books. Of course, a player does not have to be close to master strength to learn this ending.
ok ...thank you
I think there's a game on wikipedia if you type Bishop and Knight vs king where a GM got into the B+N vs K situation and he couldn't do it and the game was a draw by 50 move rule. It was over 100 moves.