How will you coach the knight movement to a new child. Knight moves 2 squares or 3 squars ?

Sounds like you need to learn it 1st. 

L shape is how I first heard it.

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It is - as nuclearturkey observes:  a total waste of time for me to give an intelligent answer only to be told to go look on a fide website.  If you knew where to look for the answer, why did you waste everyone's time asking in this forum?  never mind. 

with all due respect,

most of the coaches say "L"  shape movement for the knights.  actually all the pieces moves in a straight line diaognally /vertically /horizontally . samewise the knight moves . one square of Bishop movement and one square of Rook movement or one square of Rook movement then one square of Bishop movement,eitherway. This is the basic concept .So the knight moves only 2 squares. i teach my students this way. and it is somewhat easiar than the 'L' shape.The coaches may try this and post a comment . please. Thank you Mr.nuclearturkey for suggesting me to learn it first. I have a lot to learn in chess. how about you ??

Actually, you have the description completely wrong. So I think I was right with what I said. Of course we all have a lot to learn.

thank u dear friend   mr.nuclearturkey. maybe i am wrong in your view. but you are still thinking that you are right. be sure of your views. i am practically coaching the children by the way what i said. and i am 100 % satisfied with that. Tell me how it  is wrong .even the Fide doesnot specify clearly how the knight moves.

Regards.

this comments and arguments are purely fiendly and to share the knowledge.

no harm meant to any person. By the way dear friend what is that 'International" meant ??

thank u my dear friend  Mr.RetGuvvie98 / Mr. bruce     .Please visit fide.com the official website of world chess federation.go to .  handbook,miscellaneus-laws of chess-knight.         

and please understand the topic.

regards

thirukkalathy.K

[kbalaiah]

Another person who asks for advice and completely disregards it when it's given. *Sigh*. Very well, keep teaching the poor buggers that it combines the movements of the Rook and Bishop if you want.

 "poor buggers" !!!! thank u for the nice comment about the children learning chess mr.nuclearturkey . it seems that "clear" is only in your name and not in your brain or heart. i have replied to a person who thinks the chess learning children are "poor buggers", and who claims to be an international !!!. pity of me.

FIDE explains the Knight move as to a nearest square not on the same rank, file or diagonal. While this explanation may seem reasonable we must remember that things on the chess board are not what they seem. If distance is measured in King moves, we know the distance from a1 to h1 = the distance from a1 to h8. So a right triangle has all 3 sides of the same length. If we want to measure the distance between any two squares by the number of moves the actual piece would take, we find that, in the center of the board, the Knight takes two moves to move 1 diagonal square and 3 moves to move 1 horizontal or vertical square. Of course in the corners, it  may take 4 moves to move the same coordinates. But if we are going to teach a Knight move to children it must be done in ways they can understand. Thus it IS fair to say it is one Rook move and 1 Bishop move away from the original square. It is also fair to say that they move 3 squares in an L shape. Those are ideas that kids can understand. The FIDE definition needs some work before it can be considered accurate in any mathematical sense. It is certainly lacking in it's description for non-chess players.

You are a practical person with a sound analytical knowledge  sir . thank you