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Centaur. Moves as Knight or Man. Also known as Centaur.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
Kevin Pacey wrote on Mon, Apr 1 12:45 PM UTC in reply to Jean-Louis Cazaux from 12:14 PM:

A general problem with fairy chess piece figurines is that while the 6 types of Staunton chess figurines are all quite distinct and serve orthodox chess well, for chess variants sometimes in a given CV such as Sac Chess there can a lot of similar-looking types, it may be unavoidable in such a case. Similar issues might happen for other CVs too, even if the practical similarity issue went away for just that particular CV (i.e. Sac Chess). Fergus' main concern is to get a good-looking Staunton-style figurine of a Centaur that can be used both on the Piececlopedia page and seemingly for a lot of CV games, the latter being difficult to imagine in the form of an example collection of them.

Perhaps a Knight figurine with a Man's head at the top would be the best thought for a Staunton-style Centaur figurine, if the Centaur were not a royal version.