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    1) The passage discusses the technique of checkmating a lone king with a bishop and knight, which requires precise coordination of the pieces over 35 moves. 2) The winning process involves three stages - driving the defending king to the edge of the board, leading it to a corner controlled by the attacking bishop, and delivering checkmate. 3) The example game demonstrates how the white pieces work together to methodically push the black king from the center to the edge and finally into the checkmating corner through 31 moves.

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    1) The passage discusses the technique of checkmating a lone king with a bishop and knight, which requires precise coordination of the pieces over 35 moves. 2) The winning process involves three stages - driving the defending king to the edge of the board, leading it to a corner controlled by the attacking bishop, and delivering checkmate. 3) The example game demonstrates how the white pieces work together to methodically push the black king from the center to the edge and finally into the checkmating corner through 31 moves.

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    1) The passage discusses the technique of checkmating a lone king with a bishop and knight, which requires precise coordination of the pieces over 35 moves. 2) The winning process involves three stages - driving the defending king to the edge of the board, leading it to a corner controlled by the attacking bishop, and delivering checkmate. 3) The example game demonstrates how the white pieces work together to methodically push the black king from the center to the edge and finally into the checkmating corner through 31 moves.

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    Bishop Knight Mate 2

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    1) The passage discusses the technique of checkmating a lone king with a bishop and knight, which requires precise coordination of the pieces over 35 moves. 2) The winning process involves three stages - driving the defending king to the edge of the board, leading it to a corner controlled by the attacking bishop, and delivering checkmate. 3) The example game demonstrates how the white pieces work together to methodically push the black king from the center to the edge and finally into the checkmating corner through 31 moves.

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    {Chess Endings are predominantly positional in character, although

    combinative and tactical manoeuvring often enlivens the play. But


    the compelling reason for studying chess endgames is surely the
    practical one: after a long struggle how heart-breaking it is not to
    reap one's full reward because of poor end-game play!

    I want to talk about an endgame today. The mate with Bishop and
    Knight is much more complicated than any other mate. About thirty-
    five moves are needed to accomplish checkmate. As per Rules of
    FIDE, the number of moves allowed for checkmating a lone King is
    fifty, therefore, these endings demand precise play.

    Here the winning process consists of three stages. First stage consist
    that the defending King is driven to the edge of the board; then in the
    second stage the attacking side lead the King to into a corner of the
    colour controlled by the bishop; and the last stage consists delivering
    the mate.

    Let’s take a position to learn it better. In this position White’s pieces


    are standing far away from each other. Therefore, White has to
    activate the pieces firstly and bring the King to the Centre. Checkmate
    is possible only in case the pieces coordinate and do concerted efforts
    to bring the enemy King from the Centre to the Edge of the Board
    initially.

    So White plays to activate the King and to move towards the centre…}
    1. Kb2 Kd3 {Black will impede the way of the White King.} 2. Nc7
    {activating the Knight.} Kc4 3. Ne6 Kd5 4. Nd4 {Now Knight reached
    the centre.} Kc4 5. Kc2 Kd5 6. Kd3 Kc5 7. Bh2 {Bishop is a long range
    piece and it can control Black squares from a distance also.} Kd5
    {Black wants to stay back in the centre.} 8.Nb3 {The concerted efforts
    of the King, Bishop and Knight make the enemy King to go back a
    rank further. Here we can learn the ways of piece coordination being
    carried out among the White pieces.} Kc6 9. Kc4 {White King takes
    more squares from the Black King.} Kb6 10. Nc5 Kc6 11. Na4 {Again
    Black is forced to give up a rank and compelled to move to the edge of
    the Board. Just see the coordination of White pieces} Kb7 12. Kb5 Kc8
    13. Kc6 Kd8 14. Kd6 Kc8 15. Nb6+ Kb7 16. Kc5 Ka6 17.Kc6 Ka5
    {Black King wants to escape to the centre by moving to b4} 18. Bd6
    {Creating barrier to the enemy King, sealing the escape route.} Ka6

    {The first phase of the game is over. White brought the Black King to
    the edge of the Board. Now the Black King has to be taken to the a1
    corner where it will be given checkmate. This method of driving the
    King across the board was pointed out by Philidor in 1777}

    {The King can only be mated in a corner of the colour the bishop
    controls. Of course, the weaker side strives when retreating to get
    one of the other, safe corners. It is therefore very important to know
    how to drive the enemy King across from corner to the other.}

    19. Bb8 {At the same time not allowing the Black King to reach the
    corner where White's Bishop has no influence.} Ka5 {It is very
    instructive to see how the Knight is coordinating with the White King
    and Bishop helping them to lead the Black King to the Black-square
    corner. Please see the Knight moves.} 20. Nd5 Ka4 21. Kc5 Kb3
    22.Nb4 Kc3 23. Bf4 {Again creating the barrier and not allowing the
    Black King to escape.} Kb3 24.Be5 {Narrowing the sphere of activity
    of Black King.} Ka4 25. Kc4 Ka5 26. Bc7+ Ka4 27. Nd3 Leading the
    Black King to the corner.} Ka3 28.Bb6 Ka4 29. Nb2+ {Knight ends its
    manipulation journey started from the square b6 and it will make
    itself ready for the final blow of checkmate.} Ka3 30. Kc3 Ka2 31. Kc2
    Ka3 32. Bc5+ Ka2 {(Here the second stage ends as the Black King has
    been forced to move to the Black square corner. The third phase of
    the process started. The pieces should be readied for the ultimate
    blow of checkmate.)} 33. Nd3 Ka1 {Black got only two squares to
    move around.} 34. Bd6 Ka2 35. Nc1+ Ka1 36. Be5#

    {The whole technique is an instructive example of using one’s pieces


    cooperatively. Thank you for watching this short video. Hope that
    you learned something here. Keep learning and keep winning. If you
    like this video, please share it among your friends and I also welcome
    your comments that will encourage me to compile more videos. Bye
    for now. See you soon and may all your games end well!} 1-0

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