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
William Lewis (chess player) William Lewis (chess player) William Lewis (1787–1870) was an English chess player and author, nowadays best known for the Lewis Countergambit and for being the first player ever to be described as a Grandmaster of the game. Born in Birmingham, William Lewis moved as a young man to London where he worked for a merchant for a short period. He became a student of chess player Jacob Sarratt, but in later years he showed himself to be rather ungrateful towards his teacher. Although he considered Sarratt's "Treatise on the Game of Chess" (1808) a "poorly written book", in 1822 Lewis