Mastering Exchanges. Womens Grand Prix (3.Bishops vs Knights)

How is better the bishop of the knight? The eternal cuestion of chess and difficult to answer, its extrange that 2 pieces so different have more less the same value, the bishop have slightly better reputation and Fischer and Kasparov both adressed that dilemma already. Both giving Knight 3 pts. Fischer gave bishop 3.25. Kasparov earlier was giving 3.15 to bishop, but later agreed with Fisher's idea, that bishop could be 3.25. So in conclusion we can say that the bishop more times is a little bit better than the knight specially if you have the pair but each position is different.
In this chapter i show a game when 2 bishops outplayed 2 knights , a interesting choice of Goryachkina between recapture with a bishop or with a knight, and a good victory trading a bishop for a knight of Muzychuk

The Perfect Storm

Zhou,J vs Badelka,O

I like so much this game to learn when the bishops are better, how trade your knights for her bishops and how to play after with the bishops to outplayed the knights.

Really instructive beacuse first the side with the knights have the edge but after trade the second bishop white takes the full domination of the position and Zhou won so easy

Good Choice

Deshmukh,D vs Goryachkina,A

This game have a moment how cought my attention when i see it.

Graet decision of Aleksandra to maintain the balance giving the bishop pair to have an active knight.

Controversial Decision

Muzychuk,M vs Paehtz,E

I like this example to show the strenght of the knights in some positions and this superiority in the sicilian against the e7 bishop is so commun.

Knights pair 1-0 Bishops pair. Courtesy of Russian Technique

Goryachkina Masterclass

I start this chapter whit a complet game where 2 bishop beat 2 knights and i want to end with the opposite. Goryachkina shows how to take a position where the pair of knights have the advantaje and how to convert into full point.

We watch a example where first the knights are better than the bishops but after a mistake the bishops becomes Hyperstrongers and won the game so easy amonsgt the knights and we end the chapter with a totally opposite game with Goryachkina showing how to win with thw knights pair vs the bishop pair

In the second game Goryachkina to defend prefers to give the bishop pair and keep a strong knight in a very good decision

And the third example is a questionable trade of a good bishop for a knight but how give to white a easy win after a inaccuracy of her opponent.

I hope that you enjoy and learn a little bit abou the awesome fight between the bishops and the knights, i give us the rest of the chapter of this serie about trades in the Womens Grand Prix, if you enjoy or learn with this post please give me a like to reach more people and help to the global chess education ,by.

Chapter 1. Queens Trades
Chapter 2. Good and Bad Bishops
Chapter 4. Simplification
Chapter 5. Correct Recapture
Chapter 6. Intense Battle
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