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The Bishop

Chapter 0. The Basics

And this is the bishop! If the rook loves straight lines, the bishop is all about diagonals: sideways in any direction, as many squares as it likes. And here's what amazed me: a bishop spends the WHOLE game on squares of ONE colour! If it starts on a dark square, the light squares simply don't exist for it. That's why each army has two bishops: one light-squared, one dark-squared, and together they cover the whole board.

Your bishop stands on c1 — that's a dark square, its home colour. From there a long diagonal stretches up and to the right. Run along it all the way to h6! And remember while you're at it: the longer the open diagonal, the happier the bishop.

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