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Bishop. Moves arbitrary number of unobstructed squares diagonally.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
Charles Gilman wrote on Sat, Apr 3, 2004 07:15 AM UTC:
To English, Portuguese, and Icelandic can be added the Celtic languages, in which this piece's name takes forms such as Easpag or Esgob, obvious derivatives of Episcopus. It is notable that all these are languages of Europe's western edge.