The sixth game of the 2010 World Chess Championship between Viswanathan Anand and Veselin Topalov saw Anand making 13 consecutive knight moves ( albeit using both knights ) -– online commentors jested that Anand was trying to solve the Knight's Tour problem during the game.

The knight moves alternately to white and black squares.

Moreover, it takes more moves for a decentralized knight to switch operation to the opposite side of the board than a decentralized bishop, rook, or queen.

In the diagram at right, the numbers represent how many moves it takes for a knight to reach each square on the chess board from its location on the f5 square.

In the final position the black knight forks the white queen and rook ; after the queen moves away, Black will win the exchange.

For example, Be5 ( move a bishop to e5 ), Nf3 ( move a knight to f3 ), c5 ( move a pawn to c5 — no piece letter in the case of pawn moves ).

The narrative moves like a knight in a chess game, one chapter for each room ( thus, the more rooms an apartment has the more chapters are devoted to it ).

For example, Sam Loyd devised the problem: " Construct a game which ends with black delivering discovered checkmate on move four " ( published in Le Sphinx, 1866 ; the solution is 1. f3 e5 2. Kf2 h5 3. Kg3 h4 + 4. Kg4 d5 #); while all White moves are unique ( see Beauty in chess problems below ), the Black ones aren't. Black mating on move 5 by change to knight.

As well as describing the logical relationship, the scene graph may also describe the spatial relationship of the various entities: the knight moves through 3D space as the horse moves.

In 1874 Bird proposed a new chess variant, which played on an 8 × 10 board and contained two new pieces: guard ( combining the moves of the rook and knight ) and equerry ( combining the bishop and knight ).

He managed to compose a Babson task problem using nightriders ( a Fairy piece which moves like a knight, but can make any number of knight-like moves in the same direction in one go ) instead of knights, but found it hard to devise one using normal pieces — because of their limited range, it is difficult to justify white promoting to a knight because of black promoting to one way over the other side of the board.

Thus, " Nge2 " specifies that the knight originally on the g-file moves to e2.

Instead of simply allowing Kasparov to grind him down he unbalanced the game with his knight sacrifice, and six moves later Kasparov had blundered.

When White plays Nc3, Black will exchange bishop for knight in order to enhance his control over the central light squares, and play on the queenside with moves such as ... a5 – a4 and ... b5.

( If White moves the queen to another square, Black's knight captures White's rook on f3, winning the exchange.

After forced moves on both sides, Kasparov made a desperado move with his knight to cause the World Team to have doubled pawns.

Yet 15 % of the voters were tempted to try to hang onto the knight a few moves longer with 47 ... Nh8.

Carrera is also remembered as the inventor of chess variant ( Carrera's chess ) on an 8x10 chessboard, in which there were added two new pieces called the " Champion " ( a combination of the moves of the tower ( rook ) and the knight ) and " Centaurus " ( a combination of the bishop and the knight ); these innovations had more fame than the ones made by Piacenza and Marinelli.

In the Early Medieval period any well-equipped horseman could be described as a ' knight ,' or miles in Latin.

Although any Medieval knight going to war would automatically serve as a man-at-arms, not all men-at-arms were knights.

The knight is the only piece that can move at the beginning of the game before any pawn move has been made.

It is also common to refer to a rook pawn, meaning any pawn on the a-or h-file, a knight pawn ( on the b-or g-file ), a bishop pawn ( on the c-or f-file ), a queen pawn ( on the d-file ), a king pawn ( on the e-file ), and a central pawn ( on either the d-or e-file ).

The action was brief and probably not very bloody, since the only casualty of any note was a minor Lothian knight, Sir Patrick Graham, though about 100 Scottish lords, knights and men-at-arms were taken prisoner.

Her husband Baldwin, a young knight, by chaste living, scorning all other women, began to love her alone with a fervent love, which is rarely found in any man, so that he devoted himself to his sole wife only and was content with her alone.

This means that only a single copy of the data is kept, which is then referenced by any ' knight ' nodes in the scene graph.

* Raymond Chandler in his first novel, The Big Sleep ( 1939 ), lets his private eye Philip Marlowe describe and comment on " a knight in dark armour rescuing a lady who was tied to a tree and didn't have any clothes on but some very long and convenient hair.

" Within the panegyric there is a wealth of facts and details ... most derived from personal knowledge and personal contacts, compiled and intelligently put together by a man uniquely qualified as both clerk and knight, closely connected with the court ... One may add that William of Poitiers must have known his hero from their joint youth up, and stress that as both former knight and former chaplain of the duke he is able to bring us closer to the heart of Normandy in the mid-eleventh century than any other writer of that age or later.

There is no contemporary English mention of any English knight named Jehan de Mandeville, nor are the arms said to have been on the Liège tomb like any known Mandeville arms.

Her real name is Aldonza Lorenzo, and Sancho describes her as follows: "… I can tell you that she pitches a bar as well as the strongest lad in the whole village … She's a brawny girl, well built and tall and sturdy, and she will know how to keep her chin out of the mud with any knight errant who ever has her for his mistress.

Under Queen Victoria's 1847 statutes a member " convicted of treason, cowardice, felony, or any infamous crime derogatory to his honour as a knight or gentleman, or accused and does not submit to trial in a reasonable time, shall be degraded from the Order by a special ordinance signed by the sovereign ".

If the husband is a knight of any order, however, the ensigns of that order belong only to him and are not shared with his wife.

A male peer impales the arms of his wife as described above, but including the supporters, coronet and helmet of the peer ; if he is also a knight of any order, the two-shield method is used.

It was difficult or impossible for the overlord to extract any services ( such as knight service, rent, homage ) from the new tenants.

The provincial Kings of Arms were commissioned under a royal warrant to enter all houses and churches and given authority to deface and destroy all arms unlawfully used by any knight, esquire, or gentleman.

There are no theoretical limitations on what skills a character can learn ; a priest or wizard is free to learn combat skills of any type, and a knight or soldier is free to focus on knowledge skills or stealth and thievery.

It received further privileges unusual to any order of knighthood: the sovereign undertook to consult the order before going to war ; all disputes between the knights were to be settled by the order ; at each chapter the deeds of each knight were held in review, and punishments and admonitions were dealt out to offenders, and to this the sovereign was expressly subject ; the knights could claim as of right to be tried by their fellows on charges of rebellion, heresy and treason, and Charles V conferred on the order exclusive jurisdiction over all crimes committed by the knights ; the arrest of the offender had to be by warrant signed by at least six knights, and during the process of charge and trial he remained not in prison but in the gentle custody of his fellow knights.

In the Early Medieval period, any well-equipped horseman could be described as a " knight ", or miles in Latin.

In chivalric theory, any knight could bestow knighthood on another, however, in practice this was usually done by sovereigns and the higher nobility.

Jim and Angie's closest friend ; an idealistic, impoverished, zealous knight, present as Jim's companion throughout the series.

These basic values are modified by other factors such as the position of the pieces ( e. g. advanced pawns are usually more valuable than those on their starting squares ), coordination between pieces ( e. g. a bishop pair usually coordinates better than a bishop plus a knight ), and the type of position ( knights are generally better in closed positions with many pawns, while bishops are more powerful in open positions ).

Less experienced players tend to underrate the bishop compared to the knight because the knight can reach all squares and is more adept at forking.

A knight on the edge of the board attacks only three or four squares ( depending on its exact location ) and a knight in the corner only two.

( For example, the white king starts the game on square e1, while the black knight on b8 can move to open squares a6 or c6.

For example, in the position at right, the challenge is to place a white king, queen, rook, knight, and bishop in the five marked squares so that the squares with numbers in them are attacked zero and four times respectively.

Nf3 e6, the white knight and black pawn transfer after moving on board A to their corresponding squares on board B.

Since both of those squares are protected by Byrne's knight on c3, he understandably did not appreciate the danger.

Black could reply ... Ke4, with checkmate: the king patrols the rook on e3 giving check and guarding b3 and d3 ; the rook on a2 is patrolled by the knight on b4 and so controls the squares b2, c2 and d2 ; Kd4 is not possible because the black king, patrolled by the e3 rook, controls that square ; and Kxb4 is not possible because the white king is not patrolled and so cannot capture.

If the knight is on the 3rd level of a castle, and the castle occupies 5 squares on the board, the player receives 15 points.

In chess the fianchetto ( " little flank ") is a pattern of development wherein a bishop is developed to the second rank of the adjacent knight file, the knight pawn having been moved one or two squares forward.

Black's queen's bishop is also fianchettoed, but the knight pawn has moved forward two squares, making this a long fianchetto.

In the position at left, White to play will apparently be obliged to retreat the knight from f5, because the squares to which it could advance are all guarded.

Some 3 % of viewers wanted Black to play 4 ... Nxd7, but were outvoted by those who thought Black's queen was safe on the light squares with White's light bishop off and thought Black stronger with its knight on c6.

allowing 38 ... Qd3-this dominates the knight: despite having six squares available to it, its capture cannot be avoided.

7 g4 is less dangerous now because with 6 ... Nbd7 black is more flexible as the bishop on c8 can attack g4 now and the knight on d7 can jump to interesting squares.

Myin ( horse ): equivalent to a chess knight ; it can jump two horizontal squares and one vertical square or two vertical squares and one horizontal square, as in Western chess.