do you think it exists?
i don't think there is something like that, at least from my personal experience.
Also, i find myself like N in some days, and suddenly prefer B in other days, is it a normal phenomenon?
Open space= bishop > knight
Closed space= knight > bishop.
"... Masters of the Chessboard ... can be appreciated as almost a primer on the subject of how to turn the two bishops into a significant advantage. ..." - GM Andy Soltis (2011)
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@hydroshadow said in #1:
> do you think it exists?
> i don't think there is something like that, at least from my personal experience.
> Also, i find myself like N in some days, and suddenly prefer B in other days, is it a normal phenomenon?
It doesn’t depend on the day but on the position.
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These are all rules of thumb, meaning that you'll always need to carefully consider the specific situation. If there are no other clear imbalances, having the bishop pair is considered better than not having it, more or less like having doubled and isolated pawns is considered worse than having a solid pawn structure. There will inevitably be exceptions, but rule of thumbs can still be very helpful in making decisions.
Then, it also depends on the players' skills. If they make 10 blunders per game, it's all going to be too random for this sort of nuances to have any relevance.
Sarg0n's advice of the day: in the opening the common wisdom is often reversed.
Having a lead in development the Knight party has to crack open the position quickly to exploit. This can been seen in a lot of openings, I will just name one of them. NID, especially if White has wasted time with Qc2, a3, Qxc3. There are lines which end in disaster for White having the two Bishop and an open position.
lichess.org/forum/general-chess-discussion/bishop-sucks-knight-rules?page=2#17Consider that Botvinnik-Bronstein ending (where Bronny was a pawn up and couldn't hold).
Yeah, normal cause half of positions and half would be closed so sometimes bishop and sometimes knight seems better.
And yes, Bishop as pair is deadly. They arrive from Hell to kill the enemy king. If another minor piece probably a knight supports them, they can even overpower a Queen.
