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The Fatally Flawed Carrera compounds thread should have been renewed before
because of more than 25 comments. It's easier to directly link here anew
one or two early comments starting the original thread. They are in the top
10 variant pieces with Gryphon, Alfil, Dababba, Camel all of great
historical importance, from when piece-type additions were more obvious. Centaur
BN and Champion belong there for others to complete, the major 10, or major
20, CV piece-types back to year 1300. Of course excluded as conventional
pieces from any novelty list are RNBKQP and probably Cannon -- however
someone decides eventually to refine such classic leaders.
Think of them as Knight compounds, the Carrera pieces from year 1617. We
tend to think of the slider first but it's the Knight that gets jiggled with,
the Knight whose in both oddities. I think they are the most widely used
variant piece-types ever. Queen is fully accepted, and they are not.
Because there's the question, does the standard Knight need compounding?
With what? Non-royal King, the mediaeval Man from German Courier Chess is
one Knight compound. So are Knight plus Camel, and Knight plus Zebra.