•  Malgas   ( @Malgas@beehaw.org ) 
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    24 months ago

    The bishop-equivalent in shogi (Japanese chess) is 角行, “angle-mover”. (Which is odd because none of the other pieces are so mechanically named; rooks, for example, are 飛車, “flying chariot”.)

    There are shogi variants that have elephant pieces, but they don’t move like bishops.