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You will build confidence and never forget how to do it, after you checkmate Chessmaster, Rybka or Fritz multiple times. I recommend practicing delivering that checkmate against the computer. I hope my analysis was any use for you and you have learned how to checkmate the lone King with a Knight and Bishop. But be careful, there is still a chance for a Draw here, don’t let the win slip and make each move with a check from now on. There is a checkmate in 2 at this position. Black’s King is now at Small Triangle and is locked to only 2 squares. White King pushes the opponent’s King from the bottom towards the Small Triangle. The Knight is also at its new ideal square d5, on the same column/row as the Bishop, but one square apart.
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The basic idea here it that the Bishop is at its new ideal square c7, which is on the side of the Triangle, one square away from the edge of the board. We have moved black’s King to the Medium Triangle. Red X’s show the squares controlled by white. Why are these ideal squares? When Bishop and Knight are placed in its ideal way they form a wall, preventing the black’s King from breaking through. The ideal square for the Knight is d3, it should be on the same row as the Bishop but one square apart. The Knight is positioned on the ideal square also. Ideal square is on the diagonal (side of the Triangle), one square up: b3 or f7. Black’s King cannot escape and only limited by 8 squares he can move at. We move the opponent’s King from the Large Triangle to Medium and then to Small one, where checkmate will be delivered. As you already know the only way to checkmate the King is to force him into the light square a8 (or h8) if we have the light square Bishop. On the diagram black’s King is inside the Large Triangle. These are represented in green, blue and red. We divide the chess board onto three Triangles: Large Triangle, Medium Triangle and Small Triangle. The first objective is to force an opponent’s King to the wrong square. Let’s checkmate this 2800 rated program in Knight and Bishop endgame. The safest place for the lone King to be is the opposite color corner, so the main difficulty is to force him out of the wrong corner and escort to the right one. Therefore, if you have the light square Bishop you need to force him to a8 or h1, which are light corners. The only way to checkmate an opponent’s King is to force him to the right corner, the corner which matches the color of your bishop. If you can checkmate the Machine in this endgame, I will do the same against human opponents as well. But you will!īelow is the endgame I played against Chessmaster GM edition (2800+ ELO) program. You ask why is it complex? Well, even grandmasters fail to do it in fifty moves, sometimes. I promise, you will be able to deliver this complex Knight and Bishop Checkmate to a lone King after you read and understand this. I will systematically present the well known information and form an algorithm, how to do it. This is a main reason why I’m writing and you’re (hopefully) reading this.
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The problem is that there is no exact guide for this mate available at least I wasn’t able to find it. They show moves, give some explanation and it even seems like you understand how to do it yourself at first, but… when trying to do it, it just doesn’t work. I have seen many guides that are trying to explain how to actually checkmate a lone King with Knight and Bishop, but they’re very often failing to teach. It is not the most common mate you will see, it occurs once at every 5000 games, but it is definitely important to know how to use the Knight and a Bishop together. This endgame was well analyzed by Philidor long time ago, in 1749. Today I will discuss the Knight + Bishop endgame checkmate.