Please don't flag me. I am not a duplicate of Crippled King Crossing a Canyon. What are the chances now, if the crippled king only can't walk up and down? The rest of the rules are the same as Crippled King Crossing a Canyon:
A chess king has been injured in battle against an evil wizard, and can no longer move
North-East or South-WestNorth or South.This king is on the North rim of a canyon, and must flee to safety on the South rim. The only way to cross is a bridge, which is a shaped like a standard chessboard.
However, as the king is about to cross, the evil wizard casts a fire spell on all 64 squares of the bridge. Each square is destroyed with a probability of 50%, independently of the others.
What is the probability that the king can cross the canyon via the undestroyed squares?
To be clear, the king is allowed to start on any undestroyed square on the top row of the chessboard, and succeeds as long as he reaches any undestroyed square on the bottom row.