Wildebeest chess

	a	b	c	d	e	f	g	h	i	j	k
10												10
9												9
8												8
7												7
6												6
5												5
4												4
3												3
2												2
1												1
	a	b	c	d	e	f	g	h	i	j	k

Wildebeest chess starting setup. For this diagram, camels are represented by inverted knights; wildebeests by dragons. In this position the white camel on h1 can move to g4 or i4; the white wildebeest can move to f3, f4, h3, or h4.

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.