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Check out Janggi (Korean Chess), our featured variant for December, 2024.
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@Jean‐Louis:
I wasn't necessarily meaning to promote the usage of ‘aanca’ to mean anything nowadays that we have more‐or‐less arrived at a concensus on what to call the Gryphon and Manticore/Rhino. More that that name was already associated with the four‐bishops icon and (presumably due to the very confusion that ‘aanca’ brings) Bob had misinterpreted it.
@Bob:
Indeed, Panda is W then DD. F then AA is called Bear by Gilman (M&B6) but idk if anyone else has taken that on and that name can also, as you've noted, refer to the Squirrel. Though the slip‐bishop seems less popular generally and idk if anyone has an alternative name for it either.
As far as the piececlopedia, first on my list is the Steward. The 4:2 leaper and now the panda are also on my radar, though it may be a little while before I can motivate myself to write even the Steward one :)
And fwiw, I'm quite fond of the four‐rooks and four‐bishops Gryphon and Manticore, but in any case they don't really qualify as ‘animal’ pieces so if you do include them there's probably a better choice of page