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A bishop (♗ ♝) is a Piece in the Board Game of Chess . Each player begins the game with two bishops. One starts between the king's Knight and the King , the other between the queen's knight and the Queen . In Algebraic Notation the starting squares are c1 and f1 for White's bishops, and c8 and f8 for Black's bishops.

The canonical chessmen are now dated back to Howard Staunton and the Staunton Chess Set . The piece's deep groove symbolizes a bishop's (or abbot's) Mitre (or miter).


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  Surname1 FineGiven1=ReubenAuthorlink1=Reuben Fine
  Surname2 BenkoGiven2=PalAuthorlink2=Pal Benko
  Year 1941, 2003
  Title Basic Chess Endings
  Publisher McKay
  ID ISBN 0-8129-3493-8


  Surname1 MüllerGiven1=KarstenAuthorlink1=Karsten Müller
  Surname2 LamprechtGiven2=FrankAuthorlink2=Frank Lamprecht
  Year 2001
  Title Fundamental Chess Endings
  Publisher Gambit Publications
  ID ISBN 1-901983-53-6


  Surname1 ReinfeldGiven1=FredAuthorlink1=Fred Reinfeld
  Year 1947
  Title Reinfeld on the End-game in Chess
  Publisher Dover Publications