This one took a while, i didn’t think about extruding and such and instead just placed out every vert (+ a few from subdividing edges) individually. i have kept my chess pieces lower poly (and less detailed) than the course examples so i am quite happy with the outcome, will of course do some cleanup after applying the mirror (like give it a bottom face), and might go back and give it ears and eyes later but for now i think this is fine.
In the end it had 109 verts, 168 faces, and 208 triangles (including mirror).