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Centaur. Moves as Knight or Man. AKA Crowned Knight.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
🕸📝Fergus Duniho wrote on Mon, Apr 1 02:35 PM UTC in reply to Kevin Pacey from 12:08 PM:

If the idea is to represent the move, the logical form in a set where the Amazon is a Staunton Knight with the head of a Staunton Queen mounted on top of it, would be a King's head on a Knight. The cross could be omitted for the non-royal case.

I'd trusted that Fergus had already thought of that and hadn't found a way to make it work, for some reason

I hadn't thought of it, because a crossless crown is still a crown. Having thought about it now, the cross is the main thing distinguishing the king's crown from the queen's. So, a knight with a crossless crown could easily be confused with an amazon. My thought has been to combine man and horse in some way.

It'll be interesting to see if anyone else can, as it would avoid using a 'reverse centaur' figurine. Maybe a Man's head (from Piececlopedia page for that) on top of a knight could be even better.

As crowns and miters are something worn on the head, some other kind of headgear, such as a helmet or a hat would probably be suitable for a piece with the additional powers of a man. While this might not work as easily for rook+man or bishop+man, these are also rook+ferz and bishop+wazir and are known by other names, such as dragon horse and dragon king. So maybe they could be represented in a different manner. Or all three might be represented by human face pieces like in the Superba set.