George Duke wrote on Wed, Apr 14, 2010 03:20 PM UTC:
All F.i.d.e. rules apply. Superficially, you might think, since Contingency Pawns are immobilized, Knight has a quick fool's mate. Not so. If 1 N b1-c3 N g8-f6 2 N c3-b5, then 2 ... N f6-e4, and Black Knight is inviolate thwarting any checking move to d6, since White Pawns cannot move either, although himself, the Knight, off-centre for the same finale on the White King. If then the g1-Knight starts out, that gives Black time to move Pawn g7 and exit the Bishop. If instead, contrary to move towards King, White moves 2 Pawn b2-b3, that Pawn can any move later advance three whilst
unimpeded b3-b6 by the RANK OBLIGATION. Yet from b6 she has no evident
advantage to take a7 or c7 because she can be gobbled immediately by Rook
or Queen. So it goes in normal development needing long-term planning not
subject to fast fixes and fusses. Being possible Computer may find an
opening spoiler, baffler or outright cook, as designers, we just hereby now give King the mediaeval one-time King's leap Knight-like -- which should
be sufficient in the event -- as final add-on rule accompanying the
Contingency Pawn Mutator just in case. Moreover, King's Leap and obligatory Knight openings are aesthetic pair.
Thus in the large, King may Castle
as usual, maneuvre with central Pawns to ''palace,'' or exercise
King's leap once only. After a Castle, no King's leap allowed, but the
singular Leap and routine palacing are very mutually compatible. Little 8x8 is not
the main feature for Contingency Pawns, rather 8x10 and 10x10, which are
having ancient 13-century Gryphon and new-fangled Bison (who is liberally
applied unnuanced Falcon, invented 1992).
