Each player's knight on the queen's side of the board at the start of a game.
〔棋〕后翼马
Example sentencesExamples
I followed the game in my head until a note to move 20, where it said that ‘20.Rfc1 is an obvious alternative. White probably wanted to save that square for the queen's knight.’
Locate the queen and to her left, the queen's bishop and the queen's knight.
Kramnik fianchettoes his bishop and delays developing his queen's knight until he can decide upon its best square.
Here and over the few next moves White chooses a ‘Velimirovic Attack’ type of plan, but one which is more appropriate for Sicilians in which Black plays… e6,… d6 and puts his queen's knight on c6.
If White defends with 5 Nf3 (5 c3 takes away the queen's knight's most useful square), Black plays the logical 5...Nc6, again attacking the d-pawn.