Camel (chess)

In the diagram below, the white camel on d4 can move to the squares marked with black dots (a3, a5, c1, c7, e1, e7, g3 and g5).

[1] The camel by itself is worth about two pawns (appreciably less than a knight) because of its colorboundedness and lack of sufficient freedom of movement on an 8×8 board.

The camel plus ferz compound is used in Omega Chess, where it is called a wizard,[5][6] and the camel plus king compound is used in Paulovits's Game, where it is called a general.

Its long move carries the danger of unstoppable attacks in the opening and of capturing winning large amounts of material.

[7] For example, if a camel plus wazir compound (CW in Betza's funny notation) replaces White's queenside rook, then White can immediately win material with 1.