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Caïssa Britannia. British themed variant with Lions, Unicorns, Dragons, Anglican Bishops, and a royal Queen. (10x10, Cells: 100) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]

🕸💡📝Fergus Duniho wrote on Sun, Jun 22, 2003 03:58 AM UTC:

'the name of your Anglican Bishop is odd because the standard Bishop
would be assumed Anglican in most of the English-speaking world'

Besides the very good point that John Lawson makes, England was still a
Catholic country when the English began calling the diagonal moving piece
a Bishop. The Anglican church dates back only to 1536, when Henry VIII had
England break with Rome. The modern Bishop had been added to Chess about
50 to 60 years earlier.