Colorbound
Colorbound is a fairy chess term. It describes pieces that can only ever visit squares of one color on a checkerboard. In orthodox chess, the bishop is the only colorbound piece. Some colorbound fairy pieces are the ferz, camel, and kirin.
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In this diagram, the white bishop can only move to white squares; therefore it is colorbound. The white knight changes the color of square it is on with every move; therefore it is not colorbound.
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