Black.
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| | | | Q6 | | #Kt| | |
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| | | QB5| #R | #Q | #P |KKt5| |
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| | | | ^R | ^Kt| #P | | |
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| | | QB3| ^B | ^P | #B | #P | |
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| | | | ^Q | | KB2| | |
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White.
FIG. 2.--The Knight's Move.
The movement of the Knight is more complicated than that of any other
piece. One move of the Knight combines two King's moves: one square
straight, and one square diagonally to any but the adjoining squares to its
starting-point. Unlike any other piece, it may leap over any piece or pawn
of its own or the opposite colour intervening between {341} its
starting-point and the square to which it moves. Thus, in Fig. 2, the white
Knight may move to K B 2, K Kt 5, Q 6, Q B 5, or Q B 3, but not to Q 2,
that square being occupied by a piece of its own colour.[74] It may take
the black pawn at K Kt 3, or the black Knight at K B 6. It will be noticed
that with every move the Knight changes colour--viz., from a white to a
black square, and _vice versa_.