Bishop Pair or Knight Pair?

I've been thinking of this a lot, at high level almost all prefer the bishop pair, it's not even an expression to have the "knight pair". Although the knights can unify to make for really powerful attacks against the king and their forking potential is unrivalled. I would love to popularize this myself, let's try to setup unique scenarios where the knights shine and dominate.

Knights usually dominate in closed positions, and when there are outposts preferably near the middle.

This isn't a great game to show the power of knights since me and my opponent made a bunch of bad moves, but as you can see, my knights pretty much gave me complete control of the queenside, restrained my opponent's pieces, and that led to me winning material and the game.

There are some positions in the Tarrasch where knights are better for black due to outposts and activity. One semi-eample is 2 N's dominate N+B in Tal-Keres: [Event "Bled-Zagreb-Belgrade Candidates"] [Date "1959.10.21"]
[White "Mikhail Tal"] [Black "Paul Keres"]

1.Nf3 d5 2.d4 c5 3.c4 e6 4.cxd5 exd5 5.g3 Nc6 6.Bg2 Nf6 7.O-O
Be7 8.Nc3 O-O 9.Bg5 Be6 10.dxc5 Bxc5 11.Na4 Bb6 12.Nxb6 axb6
13.Nd4 h6 14.Bf4 Qd7 15.a3 Bh3 16.Qd3 Rfe8 17.Rfe1 Bxg2
18.Kxg2 Re4 19.Nf3 Rae8 20.Bd2 d4 21.e3 Qd5 22.exd4 Rxd4
23.Rxe8+ Nxe8 24.Qe2 Nd6 25.Be3 Rd3 26.Kg1 Nc4 27.Ne1 Rb3
28.Rc1 Nxe3 29.fxe3 Qe5 30.Ng2 Rxb2 31.Qd3 Qe6 32.Nf4 Rb3
33.Rc3 Rxc3 34.Qxc3 Qe4 35.Qb3 b5 36.Qxb5 Qxe3+ 37.Kf1 Qf3+
38.Kg1 Qe3+ 39.Kf1 g5 40.Ne2 Ne5 41.Qxb7 Nd3 42.Qc8+ Kg7
43.Qf5 Qd2 44.Nd4 Qe1+ 45.Kg2 Qe3 46.Qd5 Qf2+ 47.Kh3 Qf1+
48.Kg4 Nf2+ 49.Kf5 Qd3+ 50.Ke5 Ng4+ 51.Kd6 Qxa3+ 52.Kc7 Qe7+
53.Kc8 Ne3 54.Qb5 Qe4 55.Qb2 Kg6 56.Qb6+ f6 57.Ne6 Nc4 58.Qa6
Ne5 59.Nc7 Qc2 60.Qd6 Qxh2 61.Nd5 Qf2 62.Kb7 Qxg3 63.Qxf6+ Kh5
64.Qe6 Ng4 65.Ne7 Qf3+ 66.Kc8 Kh4 67.Nf5+ Kh3 68.Kd8 h5 69.Qg6
Ne5 70.Qe6 Ng4 71.Qg6 Ne5 72.Qe6 Qd3+ 73.Nd4 Ng4 74.Qd5 Nf2
75.Kc8 h4 76.Qe5 Qe4 77.Qf6 Qf4 78.Nf5 Ne4 79.Qg6 Qg4 0-1

It depends on the position, dude. Heard this before?

A bishop, as a long range piece, could be of similar strength like a rook, if it only had not one specific disadvantage: It can only reach half of the squares. This weakness is, where the bishop pair comes into play: Together, bishops can control all squares.

Knights - like rooks - do not have this specific disadvantage, therefore, a pair of knights or rooks is not so important like a pair of bishops.

If you're interested in positions with powerful knights, I spent a lot of time collecting Anand games with powerful knight moves, because he's famous for liking knights, but I never got around to doing anything with them: lichess.org/study/EZYSOH4X

I think sheckley666 makes an important point, that the concept of the "bishop pair" doesn't really have an analogue with knights. A single knight on a perfect outpost can radiate power, dominate half the board, and have enormous aesthetic value, and two knights can coordinate to protect each other, but they don't have the same sort of power-in-unity that bishops have. I kept hearing that over and over again, but I couldn't really appreciate it, because I didn't know how to use them, and worried that they couldn't protect each other, and could be skewered easily if I wasn't careful. Honestly it was only this past winter that I started to really understand what the bishop pair was about, and I think it happened while making some endgame studies about the relative powers of the bishop and knight.

If it's something you want to study, I made this about Rook and Bishop vs. Rook and Knight: lichess.org/study/YQgCRVKb

And this is a study I made about Two Rooks vs. Rook and Minor Piece: lichess.org/study/OcuXergA