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Wildebeest chess
Chess variant / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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.
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This example uses algebraic notation.
The inventor's intent was "to balance the number of 'riders'—pieces that move along open lines—with the number of 'leapers'—pieces that jump". (So for each side, two knights, two camels, and a wildebeest balance two rooks, two bishops, and a queen.)
The game was played regularly in the (now defunct) correspondence game club NOST.[lower-alpha 1]