Kirin (chess) help of their own king. 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 is also known as giraffe ( ). 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 can force checkmate on
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