It’s traditional to explain the knight’s move to beginners as “L shaped”. It can also be described as moving one square vertically or horizontally and one square diagonally while still moving away from its original square. The F.I.D.E laws of chess say that it moves to one of the squares nearest to that on which it stands, but not on the same rank, file, or diagonal. I think it’s Lasker’s Manual of Chess that describes it as “the shortest move which is not a straight one”.
It’s traditional to explain the knight’s move to beginners as “L shaped”. It can also be described as moving one square vertically or horizontally and one square diagonally while still moving away from its original square. The F.I.D.E laws of chess say that it moves to one of the squares nearest to that on which it stands, but not on the same rank, file, or diagonal. I think it’s Lasker’s Manual of Chess that describes it as “the shortest move which is not a straight one”.