p.boxed | The king moves like a knight, and the knights like a king. | The goal is still to checkmate the king. p "Knights moving like a king" are quite logically called "commoners". p Castling is still permitted, under the same conditions as in orthodox chess. figure.diagram-container .diagram.diag12 | fen:7k/8/8/8/8/1r6/8/3K1r2: .diagram.diag22 | fen:rcbqk1cr/pppp1ppp/8/2b1p3/2B1P3/5Q2/PPPP1PPP/RCB1K1CR: figcaption. Left: Royal knight version of the two-rooks mate. Right: After 1.e4 e5 2.Bc4 Bc5 3.Qf3 p. On the right diagram, the threat is 4.Bxf7+ Cxf7 5.Qxf7+, with more material and a winning attack. h3 Source p 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 | . p Inventor: Bruce Zimov (1972)