I Tried To Beat Stockfish With 3 Knights Against 1 Bishop 😮

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[comradepecka]

I have never seen a bishop get trapped in an endgame like that, especially not against 3 knights. It is actually crazy to see what Stockfish can do in bizarre situations like that.

[_.Madness._]

Pro tip: If you have 2 knights, don't try to look cool and promote your last pawn to a knight too and you will save yourself some sweating.

[TheSkilledwolf]

Bishop: Wait it's not about the king?
Knights: Never was

[martinstephens]

Once I saw the strategy was to separate black's king and bishop to prevent forced trades, it made more sense.

[tw]

I really appreciate the authentic "figuring it out". Often times I think that seeing the process is much more valuable than the answer.

[Arthur-ioey]

to be accurate :
3 knights is a forced checkmate within 20 moves (max).
As a comparison,
2 rooks = within 6 moves
1 queen = within 10
1 rook = within 17
2 bishop = within 19
1 knight + 1 bishop / within 35

[cxunfsq]

Stockfish is very stressful to fight.
But I like playing against him when I have an advantage and he’s at a disadvantage.

[bloak]

Lol bishop and knight are eternal rivalries. I've seen stockfish using the same idea here in KBB vs KN endgame to trap the knight

[thebraziliangardener]

i have noticed long ago, , that chess is not a game about the pieces, its much more about the space, and what you can do with your owned space in the board, really fascinating

[mittarimato]

This may not be the most instructive video, but it sure was interesting and entertaining. I wouldn't mind watching similar setups, for example: 2 knights and a bishop vs a knight.

[KimiiiRaikkonen]

Cool to see how it trapped the Bishop. Love the Ai intelligence

[Galileosays]

Fascinating. I thought @16:20 Black should keep the bishop on the long diagonal, because the knight cannot cover the whole diagonal. But in that case the King gets trapped and mated.

[BreakTheIce]

I guess Stockfish knows that to have any chance at a win you'd absolutely have to eliminate the bishop by trapping it versus trying to maneuver around it. Very interesting indeed.

[Zakaarus]

My takeaway is: separate bishop and king, whenever all knights are on non bishop Color squares, take space from the opponent, whenever on bishop squares, use checks to force an extra move over the bishop (since king moves) to get the knights onto non bishop squares or on squares that cannot be simultaneously threatened after one move (pin/skewer/fork) (or take it directly against imperfect players)

[TurkishKS]

From your position at 12:00

1. Ndf4 B somewhere on the b2-h7 diagonal (bc King can't move)
2. Kf6 B somewhere on the b2-h7 diagonal
3. Nf8 Bg6 (Bg6 is forced to prevent #)
4. Now take the bishop N8xg6

Mate in 4.

I was yelling at the screen when you backed off from f4, lol. I didn't see the mate, but I saw the bishop issue. Great vid, as usual!!

[sparshsharma]

Thumb rule: A bishop can prevent checkmate against 3 Knights hence the only way to win is to first win/eliminate the bishop on/from the board.

[ChessForSoul]

I once tried to checkmate my coach with two knights and didn’t understand why he was laughing, and then he explained to me, by the way, if the opponent has at least one pawn, then there is a chance to checkmate) I saw such games played by grandmasters. By the way, I also shoot about chess, but I have a peculiar content, who are tired of ordinary chess, come visit)

[a_doggo]

OH MY GOODNESS THAT IS AMAZING.... Totally glad I kept watching; was not expecting such a beautiful method of domination. Who knew what could happen with three knights?

[shreyjain]

there are some really cool variations of this i found
so acc to stockfish (i used the lichess engine on default settings)
3 knights vs rook is a win for the knights by 0.1
3 knights vs 2 knights is a win by 0.4
3 knights vs 2 bishops is a win for knights by 0.1
3 knights vs a knight and a bishop is a win for the knights by 0.2
Note: you do have to play around with the positioning of the various pieces a bit for it to calculate these values
also this stuff is super cool
like theres all sorts of variations of this that i can think of now
-4 knights vs 3 bishops
-4 knights vs queen
-5 knights vs 4 knights etc

[RJSRdg]

From 12:36

Nf4 traps the King, Black can only play Bg8
Nf5+, Black's only move is Kh7
Nf8+, Black's only move is Kh8
Ng6 Checkmate