Camel (chess)
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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]
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The camel (represented as an inverted knight) may move to any of eight squares (black dots).