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The Bishop: Mr.“X”.

The Bishop is the first “long range” piece. Meaning the Bishop can move as far as it likes in one move. It is called Mr. “X” because the Bishop is a diagonal piece only moving diagonally.

The white Bishop on e4 can move to any square diagonally indicated by the arrows. This Bishop will always travel along the white Squares.

This diagram has each side with a Bishop. The white Bishop can capture the black Rook on c7 (Red Arrow) while the black Bishop can capture the white Rook on a2 (Yellow Arrow). The black Bishop is traveling along the white squares and the white Bishop is traveling along the black squares. Neither Bishop will ever run into the other because of this. In Chess we call this opposite colored bishops.

One reminder about all the rest of the pieces including Bishops. They cannot jump! If something blocks their way they must either stop before the piece or pawn or capture it if it is from the other side. You can NEVER capture your own piece. There will soon come a time in your chess career when you wish you could but you can't.