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Let’s take a week to inspect our trivial endings knowledge. So, not all of the following seven puzzles will start that way, but you can expect that they will end in: 2 elemental bishop endings, 2 elemental knight endings, 2 elemental queen vs pawn endings and 1 (sort of) all-in-one elemental ending 🙂 White to […]
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The solution should be simple when we know the drawing setup for a knight. White to move and draw. A 1938. study by Richard Guy. White has achieved basic drawing position as in example N-269.
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A. Cheron’s study from 1927. contains some cooks. We will look at it anyway in order to repeat the drawing method. The drawing method and the knight’s barriers are already explained in examples N-261, N-268 and N-269. Black king must lose time by going around […]
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Amusing and not too complicated study (Blatter, A. & Haefele, H. 1944.) with a little good-to-know trick.
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Our theme of the month for November is Knight versus Pawn. These seemingly simple endings can hide amazing knight maneuvers. Although there are positions where the knight and king can checkmate the enemy king locked-in at the corner of the board, usually a knight has to stop the pawn and save the draw. The […]
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Owing to the flexibility of the knight’s leap and possibility of approaching the target by two different routes, it is advisable, as a rule, to wait for the knight’s reaction by playing a useful pawn move rather than show one’s intentions by moving the king immediately. This is a study by F. Prokop, 1925.
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When the enemy king is locked-in by its own pawn on the rim of the chess-board, the knight can sometimes spin a mating net. We have already seen one such simple position in the introductory example 263. A somewhat more complex case is shown in a study by A. Troitzky. ← Basic EndingsBasic […]
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When the pawn has not advanced too far, the knight can stop it most of the time despite its very unfavourable position. A brilliant example on the theme is the conclusion of a study by N. Grigoriev (1938). Black to move draws although White threatens to push away the knight deep to the rear. […]
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Despite being short-legged, the knight manages in most cases to catch up with and stop the outside passed pawn. Occasionally in this race the bad position of the enemy king plays a crucial role allowing the knight to gain the decisive tempo. ← Basic EndingsBasic Endings →
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When the knight has succeeded in stopping the rook’s pawn earlier e.g. on the sixth rank, the king’s assistance is not necessary to prevent the pawn from promoting into the queen. ← Basic EndingsBasic Endings →
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