Chess Endgame: Queen vs. Knight

By request I have produced a chess video about performing a KQ vs. KN checkmate. I made this video in two parts, which were then badly joined using Windows Movie Maker. Not the best video I've ever done, but I hope you learn something if you had trouble with this ending before.

By the way, the second part was me playing vs. Crafty at chessvideos.tv, I think the part where I explained that got lopped off.

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Sports

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• chess
• endgame
• queen
• versus
• knight
• pullin

[protheric]

Orthodontics is about repairing teeth. The closest word I know to what you are saying in the video is "orthogonally" which is a mathematical term with a meaning related to axes at right angles. Also, you often refer to pieces being 2 squares apart when the distance from one square to another is actually three and there are two empty squares between the pieces. Sorry if I am sounding pedantic and unappreciative. I have enjoyed your videos and they are far better than I could do.

[GreenCastleBlock]

@protheric I guess the phrase is "orthogonally adjacent" but gets abbreviated "orthogonally" sometimes, so I never learned the correct phrase. boardgamegeek (dot) com (slash) thread (slash) 401731 (slash) ok-ill-ask-orthogonally-adjace­nt

[aeiou99999]

Thanks. I think you may not be giving black his very best defense, but I nonetheless got something valuable out of this and appreciate your effort.

[GreenCastleBlock]

@aeiou99999 Blame the computer I was playing :p

[fredb1978]

The queen could have also forked the king and knight (which is a check move) and the queen will win the knight that way also. I am referring to the example in this video when the king is not close to the knight so he is not protecting it.

[GreenCastleBlock]

@fredb1978 That is supposed to be an abstract example. Ignore the kings.

[mokubunshinnojutsu]

i find it very easy to understand, thank you sir

[fiddlercrab3]

5:43 "He has two knight checks, but they're both covered by my queen." I assume, of course, you mean because the knight is *pinned* by the queen, right? :-P

[christinelindauer]

Thanks for the video, I found your approach of focusing on the geometry of the knight to be very useful. As a minor point, I believe the pronunciation is or-THAW-guh-nuhl, with the emphasis on the 2nd syllable just as in di-AH-guh-nuhl. Separately, I don't think it means what you think it means, but your message comes across anyways, and what are words for after all?

Thanks.

[bEEny44]

thank you very much

[MrPropapanda]

@GreenCastleBlock You always say the computer will check you with his knight, but your queen is pinning the knight. how can the knight even move to check?

[leoholsbach]

GreenCastle is pretty cool guy, he ain't afraid of checks nor anything.