2 | The king moves like a knight, and the knights like a king.
3 | The goal is still to checkmate the king.
5 p "Knights moving like a king" are quite logically called "commoners".
7 p Castling is still permitted, under the same conditions as in orthodox chess.
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11 | fen:7k/8/8/8/8/1r6/8/3K1r2:
13 | fen:rcbqk1cr/pppp1ppp/8/2b1p3/2B1P3/5Q2/PPPP1PPP/RCB1K1CR:
15 Left: Royal knight version of the two-rooks mate.
16 Right: After 1.e4 e5 2.Bc4 Bc5 3.Qf3
19 On the right diagram, the threat is 4.Bxf7+ Cxf7 5.Qxf7+,
20 with more material and a winning attack.
25 a(href="https://www.chessvariants.com/diffobjective.dir/knightmate.html")
27 | on chessvariants.com.
28 | This variant is also playable
29 a(href="https://greenchess.net/rules.php?v=knightmate") on greenchess.net
32 p Inventor: Bruce Zimov (1972)