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  2. Camel (chess) - Wikipedia

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    The camel or long knight is a fairy chess piece with an elongated knight move. [1] It can jump three squares horizontally and one square vertically or three squares vertically and one square horizontally, regardless of intervening pieces. Therefore, it is a (1,3)-leaper. [1] [2] [3] The piece commonly represented in diagrams as an inverted knight.

  3. Wildebeest chess - Wikipedia

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    Wildebeest chess starting setup. For this diagram, camels are represented by horizontal knights; wildebeests by inverted knights. In this position the white camel on h1 can move to g4 or i4; the white wildebeest can move to f3, f4, h3, or h4. Wildebeest chess is a chess variant created by R. Wayne Schmittberger in 1987.

  4. Category:Camels in art - Wikipedia

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  5. Chess in the arts - Wikipedia

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    An unusual connection between art and chess is the life of Marcel Duchamp, who in 1923 almost fully suspended his artistic career to focus on chess. [41] [42] [43] I Giocatori di Scacchi (The Chess Players) (c. 1590) by Ludovico Carracci; Arabes jouant aux échecs (Arabs Playing Chess) (1847) by Eugène Delacroix

  6. History of chess - Wikipedia

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    Chess was soon incorporated into the knightly style of life in Europe. [59] Peter Alfonsi, in his work Disciplina Clericalis, listed chess among the seven skills that a good knight must acquire. [59] Chess also became a subject of art during this period, with caskets and pendants decorated in various chess forms. [60]

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  9. Chess piece - Wikipedia

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    A chess piece, or chessman, is a game piece that is placed on a chessboard to play the game of chess. It can be either white or black , and it can be one of six types: king , queen , rook , bishop , knight , or pawn .