Wildebeest Chess moves and captures as a camel and a chess knight. Normal conventions apply when castling, with the only difference that the castling player can choose to slide his king "one", "two", "three", or "four" squares. As in chess, the castling rook finishes on the opposite side of the king on the square adjacent. Bibliography Wildebeest Chess 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. The inventor's intent is "to balance the number of 'riders'—pieces that move
First-move advantage in chess position and have the superior position due to his better pawn structure!" However, GM Paul Keres responded in "CHESS" magazine, "We just don't believe it!" In symmetrical positions, as the Hodgson–Arkell and Portisch–Tal games discussed below illustrate, Black can continue to imitate White as long as he finds it feasible and desirable to do so, and deviate when that ceases to be the case. Further, a particular extra move is sometimes more of a liability than an asset. For example, Soltis notes that the position arising after 1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.exd5 exd5 4.Nf3 Nf6 "is pretty equal". The same