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Good Bishop, Bad Bishop
A bishop's quality is set by PAWNS — specifically, your own:
• GOOD bishop: your central pawns sit on the OPPOSITE color from it — its diagonals are open highways • BAD bishop: your pawns sit on ITS color — it stares at the backs of its own soldiers, a 'tall pawn'
Same piece, same 3 points on paper, completely different value in play.