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Fairy Pieces Part 2. (Updated!) Showcasing 158 Fairy Pieces. (8x8, Cells: 64) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
H. G. Muller wrote on Sun, Nov 17 08:53 PM UTC in reply to Jörg Knappen from 08:37 PM:

I used a piece with the FD move in Megalomachy, under the name Spearman. It has the special property there that the 'flying pieces' (a special kind of multi-hoppers) that are also in that variant cannot hop over it. It is of course a matter of taste whether to consider this a special property of the Spearman or of these flying pieces, and in the absence of flying pieces it would just be a normal Kirin.

The names Kirin and Kylin are of course both western spellings of the same Japanese word, the Japanese not being able to hear the difference between L and R, and randomly mixing those up in pronunciation.