I'm a beginner who is going through all of the training and drills before I try playing other people. I know this is a difficult checkmate, but I also know if I can wrap my head around it, it will help me learn the patterns that pieces have with each other. I've watched YouTube videos on this, I've seen it done, I know about trying to get the knight into a W pattern, that I need to use the same color corner that my bishop is on, that I don't use the knight to do a waiting move, that I need to trap the king in shrinking triangles...but I just can't do it.
I end up chasing the king around the board until eventually I screw up and the king is chasing my pieces, and then stalemate. How do I close off the king so that he can't escape the triangle? I've been doing this drill for 5 straight hours and not once have I even managed to get the king in the corner. It's infuriating! If someone could just post the moves so I can see that pattern in this specific scenario more clearly (i.e. not in notation that I can't follow in my head) I would be forever indebted to you.
I'm going to go back to trying and cursing again.
I read that most people can never figure it out. That made me feel a little better about being in that situation.
I'm a beginner who is going through all of the training and drills before I try playing other people. I know this is a difficult checkmate, but I also know if I can wrap my head around it, it will help me learn the patterns that pieces have with each other. I've watched YouTube videos on this, I've seen it done, I know about trying to get the knight into a W pattern, that I need to use the same color corner that my bishop is on, that I don't use the knight to do a waiting move, that I need to trap the king in shrinking triangles...but I just can't do it.
I end up chasing the king around the board until eventually I screw up and the king is chasing my pieces, and then stalemate. How do I close off the king so that he can't escape the triangle? I've been doing this drill for 5 straight hours and not once have I even managed to get the king in the corner. It's infuriating! If someone could just post the moves so I can see that pattern in this specific scenario more clearly (i.e. not in notation that I can't follow in my head) I would be forever indebted to you.
I'm going to go back to trying and cursing again.