The forbidden city

Hi i am looking for interesting chess variants like the following, the forbidden city, where the aim is to get the knight to a8 and back to a1 if you are white (h1 and h8 for black) without landing on a square inside the forbidden city, capturing a pawn which guards the forbidden city or landing on a square that is protected by a pawn in the forbidden city.

etc etc, if you know of any interesting little variants, please let me know - regards robbie.

Cool game. I think black will win this since black will always have the opposition (assuming you can't move the knight to a square the opponent's knight is attacking)

Well, black has at least an easy draw:

It's not mathematically possible. But I'm assuming white is not allowed to move to a square where she can be captured by black.

Here's another variant:

It's capture-king with black only getting a king and knight.

In compensation, black gets to make two seperate moves each turn.

yes you cannot move to a square where you will be captured :)

The goal is checkmate, not king-capture. But the rule is that it is checkmate if all pieces are gone for white. At least this is how we play it where I come from.

We just use king capture to avoid cases like these:

Here I would play Nxc2->xe1 and then an argument would develop..

"You can't play that, you're in check!"

"Well you couldn't  play that last move anyway, because you're in check!"

and a bar fight would ensue.

Great illustrative game! Question, did Black's knight start on b8?

It's supposed to, but this is not an actual game