Examples of using "Alfil" in a sentence and their english translations:
Tom checked the king with his bishop.
Needless to say, the good bishop won the duel with the bad bishop.
Both players have a bishop for white squares and a bishop for black squares.
This bishop cannot stand on a black square.
The chess pieces are pawn, knight, bishop, rook, queen, and king.
In chess, the bishop is closer to the queen.
The chess pieces are pawn, knight, bishop, rook, queen, and king.
The chess pieces are: king, queen, bishop, knight, rook and pawn.
That endgame boiled down to the confrontation between a good bishop, that is one who had good squares to move on, and a bad bishop, that is one who had his movement options restricted by its own pawns.
If you play chess, you know that a pawn can earn the right to become a bishop, a knight, a rook or a queen.
The queen has the ability to move as much as if she were a rook, that is, over the rows and columns, as if she were a bishop, that is, over the diagonals.
The queen is the most powerful piece. Second to the queen is the rook. The bishop and the knight have approximately the same value. The pawn has the lowest relative value.
White: rook on a1, pawn on b6, king on c8. Black: pawns on a7 and b7, king on a8, bishop on b8. White puts the opponent in zugzwang by playing the rook to a6, after which Black has only two options: take the rook on a6 or move his bishop to any other square on the diagonal b8-h2. In the first case, White advances his pawn from b6 to b7 and checkmates. In the second situation, the white rook takes the black pawn on a7, with the same result.