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
Richard Griffith (chess player) Richard Griffith (chess player) Richard Clewin Griffith (22 July 1872 in London – 11 December 1955 in Hendon, London) was an English chess player, author and editor. He was educated at Charterhouse School. He won the British Chess Championship in 1912 at Richmond, at his only appearance in the event. Also in 1912, he was the original co-author with John Herbert White of the famous chess book, "Modern Chess Openings", which has gone into many editions up to the present day. He was the editor of the "British Chess Magazine" from 1920 to 1937, and again for some months in