Camel (chess)

White camel
Black camel
Common icons used in diagrams
White camel
Black camel
Other icons for the camel

The camel or long knight is a fairy chess piece with an elongated knight move. 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. The piece commonly represented in diagrams as an inverted knight.

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