While doing some research on how to use my Knights more effectively in my game I came across a interesting video of a gentlemen named Ken that talks about his favorite piece which is also one of my favorite as well, the Knight.
It moves in a random fashion up and down and left to right allowing it allot of power. I like it for the same reason Ken does, because it moves in Random fashion
It moves the L shaped 1, 2, 3 and it takes a lot of concentration on the other opponents part to avoid getting what we call being forked.
Forked is another chess terminology that basically goes like this. Let’s say we have our King, the Queen and the Rook into a certain position here. This is a fork 1, 2 and over. Now in the next move if I go 1, 2 and over, I can take the Queen, 1,2 and over I can take the Rook. The opponent has to make a choice about which pieces are going to lose and the Queen is the most important piece and the Rook is secondary next to the most important piece. Of course the King is the most important piece on the board.
So the Rook also known as splitting the 2 pieces, the person has to make a bad choice. In this case, the person is going to save the Queen, at least most players would. I would then take the Rook, and then the Queen would take my Knight. Now is that a good trade? I have the Rook which is 5 points and I have the Knight which is 3 points. So on terms of points, you can see that this was a bad trade on the terms of black. It was a good trade for white.
So white is now winning the game because it has the good trade. So what’s the problem? The problem is when you have your Queen moving around and say you have the Rook out here, the thing is always moving in this L shaped thing and putting these two pieces in jeopardy, so you always have to constantly think what the next move is. Pattern recognition training as I have talked about before and will continue to, is exactly this in the works.
You always have to think ahead. What’s the next move of the Knight? What’s the next L? Can that get me in trap? Am I going to get trapped in a fork or Rook situation which means I am going to lose another or more than one piece. Then there is also am I going to have to make a bad choice now. So that is one of the reasons that I like the Knight because (1) it moves in sort of a random fashion, (2) requires the opponent to concentrate on every move of the Knight to avoid getting forked and we can see him in other areas when he is trying to think about the Knight. Hopefully your opponent is worried about that and you maybe able to take advantage over him because he is concentrating on one of my other pieces rather than what you are truly doing. Deception is helpful because your opponent if good will be trying to do the same thing as you. Control the board and the game, this is just another way to try to dominate your game better.
