George Duke wrote on Wed, Jan 11, 2017 08:02 PM UTC:
Right, I was just adding to close out the first comment that Muller holds up BN as number one fairy piece. And Seirawan thinks of them, RN and BN, as the essential expansions. They are pretty natural, or at least simple to learn, and should be in the top 15 or 20 variant pieces. You could use Duniho's Gross Chess essay to get what most of us would agree belong in the top couple dozen; I think he has about 20 piece-types explained there.
Right, I was just adding to close out the first comment that Muller holds up BN as number one fairy piece. And Seirawan thinks of them, RN and BN, as the essential expansions. They are pretty natural, or at least simple to learn, and should be in the top 15 or 20 variant pieces. You could use Duniho's Gross Chess essay to get what most of us would agree belong in the top couple dozen; I think he has about 20 piece-types explained there.