Knight (chess)

The knight (♘, ♞) is a piece in the game of chess, represented by a horse's head and neck. It moves two squares vertically and one square horizontally, or two squares horizontally and one square vertically, jumping over other pieces. Each player starts the game with two knights on the b- and g-files, each located between a rook and a bishop.

Chess knights

Quotes

• The Knight is knowledge how to fight
    Against his Prince’s enemies.
  He never makes his walk outright,
    But leaps and skips, in wily wise,
      To take by sleight a trait’rous foe
      Might slily seek their overthrow.
  • Nicholas Breton, "The Chess Play" (1593), The Knight