Good Bishop
A bishop that is not blocked by its own pawns and can operate on open diagonals of the opposite color to its own pawn structure.
A good bishop is often a key long-term advantage, especially as pieces are traded off and the board opens up, giving it wide scope compared to a restricted bad bishop.
Etymology
As with its opposite number, no origin, coiner, or dated first use for good bishop could be confirmed from any source fetched, so those fields are left unfilled. Wikipedia's chess glossary defines a good bishop as a bishop that has greater mobility because the player's own pawns are on squares of the opposite color to that of the bishop, and cross-references it directly to bad bishop. The Wikipedia article on the bad bishop carries the same paired definition. Neither source offers any etymology, attribution, or date. The term is best treated on the site as descriptive positional vocabulary rather than a coinage with a history.
First documented: n.a. — n.a.
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