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A Knight's Tale | Beginner Breakdown

Alex Moellering discusses some of the tricky ideas when using the knight. Learn about forks, outposts, and smothered mate.

Originally on Twitch
2022.04.04
Vasily Smyslov vs Iosif Rudakovsky, USSR Championship (1945): B83 Sicilian, modern Scheveningen, main line
https://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1125461
Isaac Boleslavsky vs Georgy Lisitsin, USSR Championship (1956): B76 Sicilian, dragon, Yugoslav attack, Rauser variation
https://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1257953
Smothered mate example: A52 Budapest, Rubinstein variation