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Can We Do A Checkmate With A Knight?

This Is Gonna Get Trillion Dislikes, But I Want To Ask, Can We Do A Checkmate With A Knight?
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@RiShAbH_InDiA do you mean king plus knight vs king? Nop. This is remis. As well with two knights. There is no forced mate. But the last there is an exception, when the adversary has an extra pawn.

You can mate your opponent with:
- queen,
- rook
- 2 bishops
- bishop and knight.

I hope this helps.
Knight with King simply can't restrict an opposing king to force him to the corner.
And even if enemy king will go to the corner by himself, you won't be able to check him and restrict every square around him in the same time.
But if you would have a bishop you could checkmate. If you can play 30-25 moves of perfect play, but that's still possible.
No, but in some cases you can mate with 2 knights and your king against an enemy king AND a pawn. If they don't have the pawn, it'll be stalemate.
You can checkmate with a knight Vs a rook pawn in specific positions. Two knights and a pawn on a good square sometimes also are winning. Q sole knight Vs a king however is not enough.

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