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🕸Fergus Duniho wrote on Mon, Jan 22 05:03 PM UTC in reply to H. G. Muller from 12:31 PM:

this proposal to name the W-then-B a Manticore (which I never liked anyway) turned out to be a bust

Did it? I proposed two names for the piece – Chimera and Manticore – and Manticore is the one that people started using.

everyone using that piece seems to use a Rhino to represent it.

Aurelian Florea used a lion in Frog Chess with Manticore and Falcon and some other related games. Among images we already have, the lion would be the most appropriate, as the Manticore is often depicted in a more leonine way than the old image I posted. For example, the Emerson, Lake & Palmer album The Return of the Manticore depicts it with a mane and a somewhat more human face than a lion has.

Cyrus Arturas used an even more authentic Manticore image in ArchMage Chess. I'm including the move diagram here, because he didn't include an individual image of the piece.

In GrandBetza, John Davis used a Rhino image for a piece he called a Rhino, but he links it to the Rhino page, and the interactive diagram shows that it moves differently than the Manticore.

for which no one probably knows what it is anyway, without looking it up

It is kind of surprising that it turned out to be more popular than Chimera, which should be well-known from Greek mythology. Maybe we had some Emerson, Lake & Palmer fans here. Anyway, both chimeras and manticores are chimeric leonine monsters.


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