How to Move a Bishop in a Chess Game

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Now I will tell you about the moves of the bishop. The bishop moves on the diagonals. Again the bishop can move as many squares as it wishes and as many squares as it is able to assuming that it is not blocked by opposing pieces or its own pieces but any open diagonals just as the rook moved on the open files, the bishop moves on the open diagonals. Now a theme to note is that you do have two bishops in the game, the bishop from the queen's side starts off and always plays on the black diagonals. The other bishop, the one from the king's side starts off and always plays on the white diagonals and that is an important point to bear in mind and that is why two bishops on the board really are a stronger unit than, in fact more than doubly strong, what would bishop would be because the problem with one bishop if you simply had a black bishop on the board, a bishop playing on the black squares on the board and you had an opponent piece that you particularly wanted to take but which was on a white square this bishop could not take it because it is if you wish, forever condemned to move on the black squares only.

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