Promote to a Lion

The easiest win is to force the promotion to a Lion and then follow the tactics for forcing a win with a Lion. We'll examine the case where the Black King and Kylin are on their initial squares and the bare King is on 7h.

Black could win if he could force White into one of these configurations. Notice that since the Kylin can only cover half the board there are exactly 22 positions that the Kylin can be in to be able to mate the opposing King and only 12 of those are outside the promotion zone. Because of the Kylin's limited squares it is not possible to force these positions.

There are two ways to force the promotion- running and guarding. The ability of Kylin to jump two squares makes running possible and much quicker than trying to always keep the Kylin protected by the King (which must take two steps to the Kylin's one.) To run to the promotion zone, you simply out pace the opposing King to the promotion zone and move laterally if the opposing King gets in the way.

At this point, you can refer to Chapter 6 to learn the tactics to force the win.