Welcome to the Wonderful World of Chess. "Is it a good bishop or a bad bishop?", now there's a question. When Michael Jackson said "Bad meaning good" was he talking about bishops or was that Suba? http://www.chesscafe.com/text/dvoretsky25.pdf
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