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To add to that, this also makes a knight and queen a very strong attacking combo, because they can uniquely cover the most squares.
by andoando 3y ago
To add to that, this also makes a knight and queen a very strong attacking combo, because they can uniquely cover the most squares.
- V-2 3y agoIt also enables some powerful, well-known attacking patterns, like a smothered checkmate with Queen sacrifice (or Philidor's mate).
- tasuki 3y agoGiven... they stay... in the same... square?
- seanhunter 3y agoThere was a big discussion of this topic on chess stackexchange[1]. It used to be just universally believed to be true but some modern analysts challenge the idea. [1] https://chess.stackexchange.com/questions/27815/why-does-a-knight-combine-better-with-the-queen-than-a-bishop-does https://chess.stackexchange.com/questions/27815/why-does-a-k...
- andoando 3y agoIn the image above, imagine a knight on H3, which covers g1, g5. Neither a bishop, a pawn or rook can help that way. After one move, it can go to f4 where it can add on as a second attacker to the queen on 4 squares. After another move it can go to d3, where it can again cover squares the queen cant (e2,e5). So I guess its both because it has a lot of alignment in doubling as an attack, and covering nearby squares the queen cannot.