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Another important thing about the Knight is that it always moves to a square of a different colour.
That may seem trivial, but it is handy to gauge the threat of forks that an enemy Knight poses. Say your King and another piece, or both rooks, are on dark squares. If there's an opposing Knight nearby on a dark square, it may be able to fork in one or three moves; if the Knight is on a light square there could be a fork in two or four moves.
Getting a Knight to where you want it to be is a bit like parallel parking - very frustrating if you don't get it right on the first try. 
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whyBish
in math class (2,1) and (-2,-1) are points When I wrote (2,1) I ment 2 to the right and 1 foward say from e4 to g5. When I wrote (-2,-1) I ment 2 to the left and 1 back say from e4 to c3.
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I think you can try the method of Michael De La Mazza (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_De_La_Maza) for improve your Knight Sight (pp 7-8 of this article : http://www.chesscafe.com/text/skittles148.pdf ).
an other good thing is to draw a chess diagram put a Knight on the center (for exemple d4) and write how much moves to go to each square of the board, you will see an interesting and usefull pattern (for example 4 moves to go to f6 from d4 so it's a good square for move your King in endgame).
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Kouvitch, thanks, I had this before but forgot about it without trying it. Looks very boring - but might be just what I need. 
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You are right I forgot to tell how is boring a little bit like learning multiplication table for arythmetic calcution... Ok it's not the only way but surely the faster way.
Allway in chess cafe you can try chess mazes (Knight mazes) to improve your visualisation:
http://www.chesscafe.com/archives/archives.htm#Chess%20Mazes
a little bit less boring -ok, I even find this funny - but probably litlle bit less usefull.
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