CET: Circle 1, Day 45
Current Theme: Bishop Against Knight Endings
Total Solved in Theme: 161/280
Total Solved in Problem Set: 1928/2443
Percent Correct in Theme: 54%
Percent Correct in Problem Set: 62%
Total Solved in Theme: 161/280
Total Solved in Problem Set: 1928/2443
Percent Correct in Theme: 54%
Percent Correct in Problem Set: 62%
posted by CelticDeath at 10:54 PM
2 Comments:
Bishop against Knight. Who wins?
As with all things chess, it depends on the position! :)
There aren't very many basic endgames in the problem set. This one is designed to be less theoretical and more practical. To do this, it is composed of mostly positions from actual master and grandmaster games. There are some composed problems, but those are in the minority. So, with the bishop vs. knight endings, you are faced with a variet of situations, eg., bishop and pawns vs. knight, knight and pawns vs. bishop, bishop and pawns vs. knight and pawns, etc. Also, within those groupings you might have, for example, bishop with doubled pawns vs. knight or bishop with passed pawns vs. knight with passed pawns, etc. There are a lot of neat little tricks I'm learning, too, like promoting a pawn to not a queen, not a rook, but a bishop in order to avoid stalemate and to deliver checkmate.
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