The sheer number of accounts (often boosted by blue checks) taking the post seriously is staggering. The furious replies ...

The Chess.com Rename the Bishop Controversy refers to backlash over a joke posted by the chess.com X / Twitter account in mid ...

Right-wing activists are crying foul and accusing Chess.com of religious persecution. The hysteria was caused by a poll post from Chess.com, which asked other chess enthusiasts to rename the bishop ...

The Bishop can move any number of squares diagonally ... There are 400 alternative moves in a single chess game after each move is made (5). The first folding chessboard was created in 1125 ...

Another wasped: 'What a pathetic disservice to chess.' Meanwhile others were ... Sue told her it was called The Bashing Bishop. Explaining the game, Perkins added: 'The timer starts the moment ...

Magnus Carlsen, the world No1, made a cameo appearance via video in last Monday’s third episode of BBC2’s Chess Masters: The Endgame, challenging contestants to memorise a position from a “special” ...

Takes the bishop D5. UNIDENTIFIED COMMENTATOR #1 ... KHANDEKAR: Some of them really want their kids to play chess. One father, Suresh Dasarathan, shared his 6-year-old son's daily routine.

Presenting is a velvet-suited Sue Perkins, who fulfils her remit admirably by smirking about “bishop bashing ... discovered chess in prison and who now runs clubs and uses the game to teach ...