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The two knights endgame is a chess endgame with a king and two knights versus a king. In contrast to a king and two bishops (on opposite-colored squares), or a bishop and a knight, a king and two knights cannot force checkmate against a lone king (however, the superior side can force stalemate [1] [2]).
Since many pieces (pawn, lance, knight, silver) can all promote to gold-like piece, checkmate by a gold is usual. Because of the relative ease of mating with a gold compared to other pieces, it is often advantageous to keep a gold in hand during the endgame so that a mate with a dropped gold can be executed.
Philidor's mate, also known as Philidor's legacy, is a checkmating pattern that ends in smothered mate. This method involves checking with the knight forcing the king out of the corner of the board, moving the knight away to deliver a double check from the queen and knight, sacrificing the queen to force the rook next to the king, and mating with the knight.
A dead position is defined as a position where neither player can checkmate their opponent's king by any sequence of legal moves. [34] According to the rules of chess the game is immediately terminated the moment a dead position appears on the board. Some basic endings are always dead positions; for example: king against king;
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With the stronger side to move, checkmate can be forced in at most thirty-three moves from almost any starting position. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Although it is classified as one of the four basic checkmates, [ 3 ] [ a ] the bishop and knight checkmate occurs in practice only approximately once in every 6,000 games.
White can achieve a checkmate similar to fool's mate. When the roles are reversed, however, White requires an extra third turn or half-move, known in computer chess as a ply. In both cases, the principle is the same: a player advances their f- and g-pawns such that the opponent's queen can mate along the unblocked diagonal.