The Knight

The Knight

Please consider the red line as the edge of the board, so we have more exercises for you.
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1a The knight has 3 squares free and to beat the black pawn. The squares occupied by the white king and rook are of course not reachable.
1b From the edge the knight has only 4 possible targets, all attainable, one of them with the capture of the black bishop.

2a Only the white rook occupies a target field, 5 more are reachable.
2b Here the knight is central, has more moves and can hit 3 black pieces. The white king blocks a target square.

3a There are only 2 possibilities for the black knight from the corner, both with one move.
3b 2 moves, 3 free spaces and one blocked space.

4ab The arrows show only one possible way. There is another possibility.

5ab The only possible ways

6ab Here you have at least 2 more variants
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7ab The arrows show only one possible way. There is at least one way left.


8a The path is blocked by your own figures. Nevertheless there is an alternative.
8b The path is obstructed by your own pieces. But there are more alternatives.

9 None of the knights stands in the further center. So the number of possible moves varies from 2 in the corner, 3 or 4 at the edge up to 6(marked blue).

10 Here also we see how little a knight can do at the edge or in his nearness

11 One of the knights stands in the far center, has his "wheel" (green) and thus twice as many moves as at the edge.

12 The "octopus" on one of his best places!
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13-18 In Knight Billiards, our hero will make it from one corner to the other like a billiard ball. On the way he should topple the marked field (another ball).
Everything works in 6 steps. We show an alternative. Of course, there are other variations.

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Everything here is self-explanatory.
The quote comes from Dr. Siegbert Tarrasch (1862-1934). In the late 19th and early 20th century he belonged to the strongest players of the world as well as to the most important chess theorists.