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A mitre with a diagonal slit, standing for the bishop.
Also known as: Chess bishop
The bishop is drawn as a mitre, its head cut by a diagonal slit. It moves any distance diagonally, which confines each bishop to one colour of square for the whole game. Written B in algebraic notation.
Denotes the bishop, written B in FIDE algebraic notation. The bishop moves any number of vacant squares diagonally.
Encoded at U+2657 in the Unicode Miscellaneous Symbols block.
Contexts: Software
Because it moves only diagonally, a bishop never leaves the colour of square it starts on. A player with both bishops covers every square between them; a player with one covers half the board and never the other half.
A tapering figure topped by a rounded mitre, its head crossed by a single diagonal slit, with a small circular ball above.
The queen's move is the bishop's and the rook's combined.