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- | The king moves like a knight, and the knights like a king.
- | The goal is still to checkmate the king.
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-p "Knights moving like a king" are quite logically called "commoners".
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-p Castling is still permitted, under the same conditions as in orthodox chess.
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- figcaption.
- Left: Royal knight version of the two-rooks mate.
- Right: After 1.e4 e5 2.Bc4 Bc5 3.Qf3
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-p.
- On the right diagram, the threat is 4.Bxf7+ Cxf7 5.Qxf7+,
- with more material and a winning attack.
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-h3 Source
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- a(href="https://www.chessvariants.com/diffobjective.dir/knightmate.html")
- | Knightmate Chess
- | on chessvariants.com.
- | This variant is also playable
- a(href="https://greenchess.net/rules.php?v=knightmate") on greenchess.net
- | .
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-p Inventor: Bruce Zimov (1972)