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
Alejandro Ramírez (chess player) Alejandro Ramírez (chess player) Alejandro Tadeo Ramírez Álvarez (born 21 June 1988 in San José, Costa Rica) is a Costa Rican-born American chess grandmaster. At the age of 15, he became the first Central American to achieve the grandmaster title and the second youngest chess grandmaster in the world at the time. He graduated from the University of Texas in Dallas with a master's degree in arts and technology, video game design. Ramírez started playing chess at the age of four after watching the movie "Searching for Bobby Fischer" and was taught the game by his father, Jorge Ramírez. In