From: John Givens <alucard <at> MOTHER <dot> COM>
Date: 21 dec 1996
Subject: The "bishop"

        I read Sam Sloan's page on the origin of chees and found it very
interesting (I highly recomend reading it). I would just like to a somthing
about the Bishop (Kaku). Sam said on his page the bishop may have been
created (fairly) indepedantly from other forms of chess. This seems very
likely because a bishop isn't really a bishop. Kaku and it's symbols
translat to somthing like diagonal runner which would suggest it was simply
created to balance with the rook (image a shogi game without bishops). Sam
you probabely knew this but it might a good thing to add to your page.