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Knightmate. Win by mating the knight. (8x8, Cells: 64) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]

H. G. Muller wrote on Sat, Jul 10, 2010 04:12 PM UTC:

The FIDE army is stronger. I know for sure that Commoners are weaker than Knights in a FIDE context. The Royal Knight also seems weaker than a normal King: it is very vulnerable to being chased over the board by a Queen, and subsequently mated, and it is not able to defend its own Pawn shield like a King does.

It is difficult to quantify this, however. I tried to play the two armies against each other with Fairy-Max, but it crashes very often because of mutual perpetual check. (This is something Fairy-Max cannot handle, as it extends checks always by 1 ply, so mutual perpetuals leed to infinitely deep search. This is already a problem in games like Xiangqi, where the Cannons allow you to set up mutual perpetuals. But when the two Kings move differently, this becomes really frequent. The Kings just have to approach each other, and bang...! They start to attack each other directly.)