How to Use the Bishop | Chess Video Lecture | Learn to Play Chess: From a Novice to a Fierce Competitor - Hobbies

[Music]
hi this is David Sullivan today we're
going to learn how to use the bishop
each side begins with two bishops in a
game of chess they stand on either side
of the king queen who are in the middle
you can kind of remember that by
thinking that the bishops married the
king and the queen that's how they're
they get that the right to stand next to
them a bishop might look kind of funny I
remember when I was a kid I used to
think he always looked like he was
frowning but actually the bishop looks
the way it is because he's representing
a priest that's wearing a mitre a type
of hat bishops move along the diagonals
diagonals on a chess board are these
slanting lines that are all colored in
the same you get one bishop that moves
on dark diagonals and you get one bishop
that moves on white diagonals a bishop
moves in a straight line just like the
rook as little one square or as far as
the board allows until it either runs
into the end of the board or runs into
an enemy piece if you run into an enemy
piece you land on that piece and you've
just finished your move an interesting
point is what piece do you think is
stronger a rook or a bishop bishops can
only cover half of the squares on a
chessboard if you have a bishop that's
on a dark square it can only move to
other dark squares on the chessboard
rooks can move to every square on the
chessboard
therefore rooks are actually more
powerful and a little more valuable in
general than bishops and that's how we
use the bishop
[Music]