Enter Your Reply The Comment You're Replying To Matthew Montchalin wrote on Sun, Oct 16, 2005 10:12 PM UTC:If all you have is a King and a Knight, I don't think you've got enough material to mate a solitary King using traditional chess rules, even if your opponent were to help you out and move his King where you want it to be moved. However, if you are playing chess on a nonstandard board, it might be possible. For instance, if the traditional 8x8 board had extra corners that were squares that a King could stumble into, a 'mate' of some kind might be possible. Naturally, we'd be talking about a pretty strange chessboard - for instance, a non-euclidean board - perhaps with an extra square just beyond each corner square - reachable by King or Knight, and entered as though it were just another square on the diagonal. But short of that, the simple answer to your question is: 'No - a King and Knight cannot mate a solitary enemy King, on a traditional 8x8 board., with no other pieces to assist.' Edit Form You may not post a new comment, because ItemID sawyer does not match any item.