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, or qilin, is a mythical Japanese beast, sometimes identified with a giraffe which may have been the source of its inspiration. 
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 on opposite colors can force checkmate on a bare king without the help of their own king.