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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.
Wildebeest chess is a chess variant created by R. Wayne Schmittberger in 1987. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The Wildebeest board is 11×10 squares. Besides the standard chess pieces , each side has two camels and one "wildebeest" - a piece which may move as either a camel or a knight.
Prince & Princess: The chess variant that uses the criterion of succession, where the king or queen are replaced in favor of the prince or the princess, created by Antonio Maravi Oyague. [38] Proteus: A chess variant using dice to represent normal chess pieces, created by Steve Jackson Games. [39] Shako: Played on a 10×10 board.
A fairy chess piece is a game piece that is not in regular chess but appears in an alternate version of chess with different rules. Such an alternate version is known as a chess variant.
Chess evolved over time from its earliest versions in India and Persia to variants that spread both West and East. Pieces changed names and rules as well; the most notable changes was the Vizir (or Firz) becoming the Queen, and the Elephant becoming the Bishop in European versions of chess.
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The bishop moves and takes exactly as in normal chess. Capturing is not mandatory. The camel (Golomb called it the cook) has a kind of extended knight's move: it goes one diagonal and two straight. With this move, it can jump over other pieces (like a knight jumps), but the camel takes by moving to the square on which the enemy piece is located.
A mann is represented by an inverted king, wazir by inverted rook, ferz by inverted bishop, camel by horizontal knight, and giraffe by inverted knight. Quatrochess is a chess variant for four players invented by George R. Dekle Sr. in 1986. [1] [2] It is played on a square 14×14 board that excludes the four central squares.