Kirin (chess)
A kirin is a fairy chess piece that moves as a ferz or a dabbaba. In notation, it is given the symbol FD. In this article, the kirin is represented by an inverted knight. The kirin, or qilin, is a mythical Japanese beast, sometimes identified with a giraffe which may have been the source of its inspiration.
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The kirin moves as a ferz or dabbaba, and can jump.
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 on opposite colors can force checkmate on a bare king without the help of their own king.
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