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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 01:35 AM UTC in reply to Ben Reiniger from 12:12 AM:

I do plan to eventually reduce the number of images, and with that in mind, I suppose using comments has the advantage of keeping the images around for reference even if I do decide against some of them later. So first I'll post the new images here for reference, and then I will remove some from the page:

For a more compact piece that would work well with Staunton pieces, it helps to move away from a literal representation of a centaur and instead portray the bust of someone with both horse and human features. In a literal sense, this might be a reverse centaur or a were-horse, but at least it gets across the idea of a centaur better than a more human-like bust of a centaur would. Here are a few pieces generated with this kind of depiction:

Along a similar vein, we may have a horse wearing a helmet.

Or taking inspiration from the knight in Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking-Glass, we could use a knight in a horse-shaped helmet.