Bishops are Sneaky and Dangerous
In 2018 before I completely lost my memory and mine I wrote a chess program for my granddaughters (https://www.bbgirlsgames.com/Chess02/public/index.html). Imagine my delight when they became interested in chess they were 5 & 8 years at the time. They were very interested in chess and the website (https://www.bbgirlsgames.com) that I created for them but they moved on to bigger and better things(I guess). I'm sure they will come back to chess one day, I ended up on the other blockchain because of this and now the hive blockchain.
After just a few years of chess I came to a slight disagreement with the traditional scoring system for chess pieces. Where both the Knight and bishop are scored about three points. I had many discussions and debates with my mentor about this scoring. My preference was to score the knight slightly higher then the bishop.
Many people describe the knight and bishop in many different ways and for many different reasons just as I do myself. However it has become very apparent to me that The Bishop is just Dam Sneaky!!! That is the best way to describe the bishop. The bishop is also very dangerous because it is constantly collaborating with another piece mainly a queen or a knight to do serious damage to your chess kingdom and chess game.
The bishop will hang back on a distant rank hiding and pretending not to be up to anything and the bishop is very good at this, it's just sneaky by nature :). Just know most times the bishop is plotting to split your king and rook with their knight or even checkmate you with their queen. Yes the bishop is very sneaky and dangerous because it's always plotting with another piece. This new revelation has convince me to capture my opponents bishops when possible. Some of my tournament opponents may realize that I normally try to capture their sneaky dam bishop with my knight or even sometimes with my rook. When a queen protected by a bishop checkmate me I'm normally stunned and surprised out of my mine :).
Now for full disclosure: Many times I attempt to use my bishops in a sneaky way especially in my opening games. Because the bishop is not honorable like the knight, I don't hesitate to sacrifice it many times for the King Bishop Pawn.
Now please don't misunderstand me I love all of my chess pieces! I certainly have the utmost respect for my bishops and their abilities and their place in the Chess Kingdom. I'm certain my bishops understand when I ask them to sacrifice themselves. Like wise I'm certain my bishops have a nice hardy laugh when I capture one of my opponents SNEAKY DAM BISHOPS.
@rodrook
I bet your favourite is the rook. Don't know why, its just a hunch ;)
LOL, Yes the rook is strong and powerful and the name just sound good :).
Hey @rodrook nice to read you once again, I'm so glad to see a little bit of the project you were working on in the last, hopefully your grandfathers will get back to chess yeah. So, this is a never ending story I agree with you when you say that the scoring points for these piecesis not appropriate, in chess it's not easy to just say "okay this costs 3 or 5 or whatever ", many things can change in a blink so I prefer to evaluate how much efficient is a piece of other according to the position, sometimes the bishop is better, sometimes the knight is the boss, you know ...
If you ask me I would say that the design of the pieces fits better in the knight hahaha I mean looks better than the bishop jajaja of course this is actually something that has nothing to do with chess
But what can I tell you the knight is badass that's why we chose it for our logo lol
Of course you right the value of these pieces differ and changes during the course of a game. Sometimes the knight is better and sometime the bishop is better for a specific position.
I have being checkmated many times by my opponent bishop and queen and didn’t see it coming. So I do think the bishop is sneaky (lol).
I think everyone have to agree that the rook is powerful and strong! When you put them on the same rank or file they are a smashing machine :):).
Also Thanks for taking a look at my project, I’m not sure when I will work on it again.