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a holy diagonal assassin who refuses to walk in a straight line, ever.
means A senior Christian clergyman who oversees a diocese, or the chess piece that moves only along diagonals.
from From Old English 'biscop,' borrowed from Late Latin 'episcopus,' which came from Greek 'episkopos' — literally 'overseer' or 'watcher,' built from 'epi-' (over) and 'skopos' (one who looks). So a bishop was, at root, a job title: the one keeping an eye on things. The chess sense is much later and purely English — other languages call the same piece an elephant, a runner, or a fool — and our naming likely came from the carved notch on its top, which looked to medieval eyes like a bishop's mitre.
- chess range
- stuck on one color square for the entire game
- old name
- once an elephant in Persian and Indian chess
- weird hats
- the mitre splits to honor two apostles' tongues
- pair power
- two bishops together cover every square on board
- medieval clout
- some led armies and crowned actual kings
bobby fischer — american chess grandmaster who revolutionized bishop strategy in the 1960s-70s
desmond tutu — south african anglican bishop who won the nobel peace prize in 1984
john fisher — english catholic bishop executed by henry viii in 1535