Kirin (chess)

Kirin moves as ferz or dabbaba, and can jump.

A kirin is a fairy chess piece that moves as a ferz or a dabbaba. Below, it is given the symbol FD. In this article, the kirin is represented by an inverted knight (also known as giraffe ).

The kirin appears under this name (Japanese: 麒麟, kirin) in the 14th-century Japanese game of chu shogi, and also in many other shogi variants. It appears in Ralph Betza's Chess on a Really Big Board. It is approximately equal to a knight in value.

Two kirins can force checkmate on a bare king without the help of their own king.

References

• The FD by Ralph Betza, The Chess Variant Pages