Bishop

Referenced by

• Anderssen's Mate — Anderssen's Mate is a checkmate pattern in which a rook or queen checks the enemy king along an edge file or rank, supported by a friendly bishop or pawn that covers the sole flight square while the king's own pieces often block its other escapes.
• Antichess — Antichess is a chess variant in which captures are mandatory and the player who captures the opponent's final piece or leaves the opponent with a lone king that has no legal moves wins.
• Atomic Chess — Atomic Chess is a chess variant in which every capture causes an explosion removing the captured piece, all adjacent non-pawn pieces, and the capturing piece itself unless it is a pawn, fundamentally changing piece values and king safety.
• Attacking Monster — An attacking monster is a powerfully centralized piece, usually a knight or bishop, that controls many key squares and generates multiple threats against the enemy king or position.
• Babson Task — A Babson Task is a chess problem in which White must reply to each of Black’s four possible pawn promotions by promoting to the same piece to deliver mate.
• Battery — A battery consists of two or more same-colour pieces aligned on a file, rank or diagonal, with the stronger piece behind, so the front unit can move to unleash the rear piece’s concentrated pressure.
• Blackburne's Mate — Blackburne's Mate is a checkmate pattern in which a bishop protected by a knight delivers mate along a diagonal to a king whose flight squares are blocked by its own pieces or the board edge.
• Blockade — A blockade is the occupation of the square directly in front of an enemy passed pawn by a piece, typically a knight, which halts its advance, controls surrounding squares, and converts the pawn into a target.
• Boden's Mate — Boden's mate is a checkmate pattern in which two bishops on adjacent diagonals attack a king whose own pieces or pawns block its escape squares, most often after queenside castling.
• Can Opener — The can-opener is a kingside attack in which a player advances the h-pawn, usually to h5 or h6, to force open the h-file against an opponent's castled king.
• Centaur — In fairy chess a centaur is a piece that moves either as a knight or as a non-royal king.
• Center Camper — A center camper is a piece, most often a knight, that occupies or firmly controls one of the four central squares to dominate key lines and restrict the opponent.
• Center Enjoyer — A center enjoyer is a player who prioritizes early central pawn occupation and piece control of d4, d5, e4, and e5 to secure space advantages rather than adopting flank or hypermodern setups.
• Chess960 — Chess960 (also called Fischer Random) is a chess variant in which the back-rank pieces are placed randomly at the start, subject to constraints that preserve castling options and balance.
• Clearance — Clearance is a tactical motif in which a piece moves aside to vacate a square or open a line for a more powerful piece—usually a rook or queen—often gaining tempo by delivering check or creating a threat.
• Country Move — A country move is a natural-looking but usually suboptimal chess move that an inexperienced player might choose without deeper calculation.
• Cramped Position — A cramped position restricts a player's piece mobility due to insufficient space, typically from their own pawns blocking development or the opponent's pieces controlling key squares.
• Cross Pin — A cross pin is a tactic in which one piece pins two enemy units along intersecting lines, so that either may be captured if it moves.
• Development — Development is the process of moving your pieces off their starting squares to active positions where they control more space and support your plans.
• Diagonal — A diagonal is a straight line of same-color squares joined corner-to-corner, along which bishops and queens move.
• Discovered Check — A discovered check occurs when one piece moves aside, revealing an attack on the enemy king from a second piece positioned behind it on the same line.
• Exchange — An exchange is a trade of pieces of equal value, most often a rook for a knight or bishop.
• Extended Fianchetto — An extended fianchetto develops a bishop to a3, a6, h3 or h6 to control a long diagonal from farther out on the flank than a standard fianchetto.
• Fianchetto — A fianchetto develops a bishop to b2, g2, b7 or g7 after the adjacent knight pawn advances one square, allowing it to control the long diagonal and influence the centre from a protected flank position.