Board games
Wildebeest Chess
(Self-Published), 1987
Wildebeest Chess is a board game published by (Self-Published) in 1987. It is played with 2 players.
- players
- 2
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The box
- Publisher
- (Self-Published)
- Designer
- R. Wayne Schmittberger
- Year of release
- 1987
About the game
Wildebeest chess is a chess variant created by R. Wayne Schmittberger in 1987. 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.
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.More from (Self-Published)
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