Bishop (chess) Russian is "officer" (); it is also called αξιωματικός ("axiomatikos") in Greek, афіцэр ("afitser") in Belarusian and "oficeri" in Albanian. In Mongolian and several Indian languages it is called the "camel". In Lithuanian it is the "rikis", a kind of military commander in medieval Lithuania. Unicode defines two codepoints for bishop: ♗ U+2657 White Chess Bishop (HTML ♗) ♝ U+265D Black Chess Bishop (HTML ♝) Bishop (chess) A bishop (♗,♝) is a piece in the board game of chess. Each player begins the game with two bishops. One starts between the and the king, the other between the and the
Chess tournament The three main types of time controls used in chess tournaments are "blitz", "standard", and "compensation". In blitz chess (also known as "sudden death" chess) each player starts with a fixed amount of time to spend on their moves of the game. The FIDE Handbook designates the following common blitz time controls: Blitz time controls increase the odds that one would "lose on time", meaning a forfeiture of the game due to the expiration of one's chess clock. Blitz tournaments are often documented with the notation "G/5" or "G/15", meaning "game in 5" and "game in 15", respectively. Standard time