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The bishop (♗, ♝) is a piece in the game of chess.It moves and captures along diagonals without jumping over interfering pieces. Each player begins the game with two bishops.
A special move with the king known as castling is allowed only once per player, per game (see below). A rook moves any number of vacant squares horizontally or vertically. It also is moved when castling. A bishop moves any number of vacant squares diagonally. (Thus a bishop can move to only light or dark squares, not both.)
The Bishop's Opening is a chess opening that begins with the moves: . 1. e4 e5 2. Bc4. White attacks Black's f7-square and prevents Black from advancing the d-pawn to d5. By ignoring the beginner's maxim "develop knights before bishops", White leaves their f-pawn unblocked, preserving the possibility of f2–f4.
Animation of the game (Lasker white; Bauer black) The chess game between Emanuel Lasker and Johann Bauer played in Amsterdam in 1889 is one of the most famous on account of Lasker's sacrifice of both bishops to eliminate the pawn cover around his opponent's king, winning material and the game.
In chess, the bishop and knight checkmate is the checkmate of a lone king by an opposing king, bishop, and knight.With the stronger side to move, checkmate can be forced in at most thirty-three moves from almost any starting position.
A rook is involved in the king's castling move. A bishop can move any number of squares diagonally. A queen combines the power of a rook and bishop and can move any number of squares along a rank, file, or diagonal. A knight moves to any of the closest squares that are not on the same rank, file, or diagonal. (Thus the move forms an "L"-shape ...
In chess, the fianchetto (English: / ˌ f i ə n ˈ k ɛ t oʊ / or / ˌ f i ə n ˈ tʃ ɛ t oʊ /; [1] Italian: [fjaŋˈketto] "little flank") is a pattern of development wherein a bishop is developed to the second rank of the adjacent b- or g-file, the knight pawn having been moved one or two squares forward.
The King's Fianchetto Opening or Benko's Opening [1] (also known as the Hungarian Opening, Barcza Opening, or Bilek Opening) is a chess opening characterized by the move: 1. g3. White's 1.g3 ranks as the fifth most popular opening move, but it is far less popular than 1.e4, 1.d4, 1.c4 and 1.Nf3. It is usually followed by 2.Bg2, fianchettoing ...