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 with different armies This army includes a lot of leapers, but most of them have asymmetrical move patterns, with backward moves being restricted. The rooks, knights, bishops, and queen are replaced by the following pieces: The four armies described above were playtested by Ralph Betza and selected as the most balanced ones. There are other armies, invented by Betza and other people, some of which are presented here. In the initial version of the game there were 8 armies and in these armies the king moved differently from the king in the standard chess. Instead of normal pawns, fairy pawns could be selected,