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Piececlopedia: Bishopper
Historical notes
The bishopper is a piece, used in some fairy chess problems. It relates
to the Grasshopper, in the same way as a
bishop relates to a queen.
Movement
The bishopper moves on the bishops lines, but must jump and lands at
the first square after the piece he jumps. To be precise: the bishopper moves
in diagonal direction until it meets a piece (either
friendly or unfriendly). It jumps over the piece and goes to the first square
on the line after the piece that it jumped over. If that square is occupied by
a piece from the opponent, that piece is taken, i.e., the bishopper takes in
the same way as it moves without taking.
Movement diagram
Information taken from FIDE Album 1989-1991 (a book with a selection of
chess problems.)
This is an item in the Piececlopedia: an overview of
different (fairy) chess pieces.
Written by Hans Bodlaender.
WWW page created: November 23, 1998.
Last modified: Monday, December 22, 2008
