Chess Mates meet the bishop!
We simply LOVE these photos – the children are learning, engaged, having fun and developing ALL sorts of thinking skills! Well done chess mates!
This week we learned about the bishop.
- 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.
- The starting squares are c1 and f1 for White’s bishops, and c8 and f8 for Black’s bishops.
- One bishop is always on white squares, the other is always on black squares.
- Bishops can move only diagonally in a forwards and backwards fashion and in any number of spaces.
- They can’t jump over pieces.
- They can capture, but diagonally too.