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Falcon Chess. Game on an 8x10 board with a new piece: The Falcon. (10x8, Cells: 80) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
David Paulowich wrote on Wed, Sep 19, 2007 11:40 AM UTC:

Talking about chess variants is more complicated than playing them! Back on [2006-04-03] Joost Brugh commented on this page that there is no forced mate, in general, with Wildebeest + King against lone King. But I suspect that such endgames usually lead to a stalemate victory in Wildebeest Chess.

Falcon Chess has the opposite problem: I have not seen anyone state that King and Falcon can force a lone King into a corner. But consider the following endgame position, which could arise after Black has promoted a Pawn to a Rook, or perhaps captured with his Rook:

White K(b2) and Black K(a4), R(a1), F(h7).  After 
1.Kxa1 Kb3  2.Kb1, the Falcon moves h7-e6-g3-d4-c1-f2-c4 checkmate.