Mating with a Knight and Bishop only is simpler than its Byzantine reputation as there are only three key positions you have to know. This may be why Houston TD George John was very good at doing it, and not that good at real chess never having a rating that exceeded 1450 even though the cat was a computer programming genius.
Also much gratitude to the German schachspieler Niclas Huschenbeth for elucidating the importance of the 3 key positions with no unnecessary mention of all the triangles that clueless American commentators annoyingly use. I looked for a paypal spot at YouTube to pay the Grand Master who did a marvelous job of explaining the tedious mating exercise without overwhelming detail about similar triangles in geometry!!! In the name of fairness, Majnu2006 did an above average demonstration dealing with big, medium, and small triangles, however NIclas still wins the teaching trophy!!
The steps are
1. Drive the weaker side's King to edge of board on the Bishop file with Knight adjacent to King.
2. Move the King to the corner, color of Bishop, with a W maneuver.
3. Mate the King in the corner with a variety of mating patterns often requiring multiple waiting moves with either Horse or Bishop. Be cautious about STALEMATES!
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I KNOW THAT IS ONE GODAWFUL REPRESENTATION OF A W with vertices at the squares f2 e4 d2 c4 and b2. Geometry Teacher Ms. Kostecki would love this!! Also note that the 5 W moves will not be made consecutively to allow for the necessary waiting moves averting desperation draws by weaker side!
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Finally a subtlety is that this process can happen on all four sides of the board where references to the Bishop file become somewhat meaningless.
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