Plate III
The Knight
STAUNTON PATTERN · CARVED MUZZLE · WEIGHTED
3 POINTS · THE ONLY PIECE THAT JUMPS
An L to a square of the other colour — and the only man that leaps.
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- 1Carved muzzle
- 2Weighted base
[The spec]
- Move
- The L — two-and-one, leaps
- Value
- 3 points (≈ a bishop)
- Starts on
- b1, g1 / b8, g8
- Tell
- Always changes square colour
[At the board]
It moves two-and-one and is the sole piece that jumps the men around it, which makes it lethal in a closed position and the engine of every family fork. Every knight move ends on the opposite colour to the square it left — the tell that also makes it hopeless at guarding a same-colour queen.
[Take it home]
Carry the position as original merch in the first run, or read the deeper club-grade guides.