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Charge of the Light Brigade. Seven knights fight 3 queens, and usually win! (8x8, Cells: 64) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]

Lev Grigoriev wrote at 09:52 AM UTC:

I’ve recently seen a YouTube video with game between Levy Rozman (aka GothamChess) without his Knights VS Hikaru Nakamura with 7 Knights. Hikaru won, but it’s partially because he played by White and Levy blundered his Bishop on 4th move.

Maybe Bishops’ pair & 2 Rooks are better than 2 Queens.

💡📝H. G. Muller wrote on Sat, Oct 5 06:23 PM UTC in reply to NeodymiumPhyte from 06:05 PM:

I don't know if Fairy-Stockfish is any good at this? Does it include this as an officially supported, highly optimized variant, or is it something you configured yourself? I know that the ordinary Stockfish many years ago was terrible at this. I let it play aagainst QueeNy (a derivative of the 2400 Elo engine Spartacus), and it got totally clobbered. Engines that do not know 2 Knights are far more valuable than a Queen will play like an idiot. You cannot expect engines that blunder away their Knights to have any success in playing with black. Can Fairy-Stockfish beat QueeNy?

NeodymiumPhyte wrote on Sat, Oct 5 06:05 PM UTC:

I had Fairy-Stockfish play against itself with this, and White won. So perhaps it's not as good of an example as imagined. But I think that may have been influenced by Black not being able to Promote to Queen.

V. Reinhart wrote on Mon, Feb 13, 2017 06:35 PM UTC:

This is interesting. It's one of the most extreme examples I've seen where piece values are not a good indicator of one side's advantage in chess.

Thanks for sharing.:)

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