The night (chess)

Chessman
	King
	The queen
	Rook
	Bishop
	The night
	Pawn

Knight (Knight, ♘♞) is a kind of the chessmen. I express a knight and have a shape of the head of the horse.

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Initial placement

	a	b	c	d	e	f	g	h
8									8
7									7
6									6
5									5
4									4
3									3
2									2
1									1
	a	b	c	d	e	f	g	h

Initial placement of the night

The white knight posts b1 and g1, the black knight in b8 and g8.

• The knight is expressed on the record of a game of shogi in N (because the spelling is Knight, but K is used for King). It was old and might abbreviate it to "Kt".

Movement of the piece

Basic movement of the night a b c d e f g h 8                     8 7 7 6 6 5 5 4 4 3 3 2 2 1 1 a b c d e f g h

Basics of the movement

The knight can move to any up to eight places of trouts (anywhere favorite trout).

Widened a character of "Y" of the alphabet in 4 directions; work.

The knight can jump over other pieces regardless of an ally and enemy and a kind.

When there is the piece of the enemy to the trout which figure 1 can move to, I can take the piece. After having taken it, the piece moves to the trout which there was.

Figure 2 cannot move to the trout which a piece is of the friend.

Figure 3 can fly over other pieces.

Figure 1 a b c d e f g h 8                     8 7 7 6 6 5 5 4 4 3 3 2 2 1 1 a b c d e f g h I take the piece of the enemy and can move to the trout.

Figure 2 a b c d e f g h 8                     8 7 7 6 6 5 5 4 4 3 3 2 2 1 1 a b c d e f g h I cannot move to the trout which there is of the friend.

Figure 3 a b c d e f g h 8                               8 7 7 6 6 5 5 4 4 3 3 2 2 1 1 a b c d e f g h It can fly over other pieces.

Value of the night

	King	The queen	Rook	Bishop	The night	Pawn
Value of the piece	∞(infinite)	9	5	3	3	1

• This evaluation is common and is not an absolute thing. According to this, I will be worth being at the same level as a bishop, but the value of the piece fluctuates by situation of the chess.
• The knight is called "a minor piece" with a bishop [¹].

Direction of the face of the night

 

Because a piece of the night has the face of the horse, there is a direction to the piece unlike other pieces of the chess. About direction (how to put) playing go, neither the federation of international chess nor the Japanese chess association makes the rule in particular. Therefore I can locate it for the preference of each player including turning to the right, turning left, the slant direction right in the front.

• I do not have any problem in a rule at all even if I display the knights of right and left to distinction.
• It is not necessary to display in total one's knights in the night of the opponent.
• But I tend to avoid only working as a knight backward in custom.

(from association of chess exhibition question room Q46 in Japan)

Explanatory note

1. It becomes minor piece (minor piece) or the light peace (light piece) in ^ English.

Allied item

• Knight
• The night
• List of chess terms
• Knight tour
• It is a piece of the shogi translated as Knight in knight jump - English, but movement is different (the front is bidirectional and can go ahead).
• Every quarter Katsura

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