troitzky's study

https://lichess.org/analysis/7k/1p5p/3b4/8/3K2NB/8/8/8_w_-_-_0_1?color=white#1

take a look at the pawn on b — it’s the embodiment of time: pointless and always late. as for the kings, well, one could argue, but the pawn is simply inimitable.

https://lichess.org/analysis/7k/1p5p/3b4/8/3K2NB/8/8/8_w_-_-_0_1?color=white#1 take a look at the pawn on b — it’s the embodiment of time: pointless and always late. as for the kings, well, one could argue, but the pawn is simply inimitable.

tpr

This also shows that a single knight is enough to checkmate.

Tenakel

@tpr said ^

This also shows that a single knight is enough to checkmate.

In which move order?

@tpr said [^](/forum/redirect/post/aeqqxvSP) > This also shows that a single knight is enough to checkmate. In which move order?

tpr

https://lichess.org/study/X96PIvQF/kCsMtHTT

Tenakel

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@tpr

Now I understand the idea too, and I have just included it in my Troitzky-Studies.

@steel-apron @tpr Now I understand the idea too, and I have just included it in my *Troitzky-Studies.*

tpr

On some chess websites this would be declared a draw.

'To my way of thinking, Troitzky has no peer among endgame compsers;
no one else has composed so many and such varied endings of the first rank.' - Capablanca

In some variations black loses his bishops and his pawns, but then bishop and knight checkmate.
Capablanca called this essential to study, while Silman calls for the lazy approach to skip that.

On some chess websites this would be declared a draw. 'To my way of thinking, Troitzky has no peer among endgame compsers; no one else has composed so many and such varied endings of the first rank.' - Capablanca In some variations black loses his bishops and his pawns, but then bishop and knight checkmate. Capablanca called this essential to study, while Silman calls for the lazy approach to skip that.