i think blender have more cool tools and techniques than im use for this cut
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You’re English is clear. 
In English, it’s also “less is more” and I think you’ve defined the exercise perfectly. Your bishop looks great. Well done!
They look great next to each other. Good job!
I lost sight of the model’s “low-polyness” and originally put in more edge loops just underneath the bishop’s head, but I reminded myself of the point of the exercise and fixed it.
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Here is my bishop! 
Been using different reference so mine looks a bit different, but here we go! This guy is 350 tris… I hope that isn’t too high:
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Hi,
I translated the top of the bishop toward the right in the image, to align with the reference
Here it is :
Also my base radius isn’t 4 B.U. because …
Explanation
when we went low-poly by deleting vertices (and then Bridge edges loops - Section 4 Session 68) from the first pawn we created (the one with >2,500 Tris) the base radius of my pawn dropped to something like 2.89 B.U because I have deleted some details on the very bottom.
Just have a look:
The first is Top view, the second Front view and the third is just below the camera (22.5° from the front view). The one in white is the low poly.
You can see that the first “bump” on the bottom disappeared and its radius was 3 B.U. 
… But I kept the 4/3 ratio by scaling by 1.333 
Can’t wait to do the rest of the bishop !
Cheers !
my LP bishop
I’ve used the same method as for reducing the vertices before, so 1. removing some vertices from the top bowl, then edge loop bridging.
I like the result.
And with the suggested method of saving the bases before, even queen and king were completed really fast.
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Using a different reference image. Used similar techniques in the video, but my reference has a little crenellation at the top of the bishop, queen and king.
