Beginner bishop questions

I'm very new to chess. I've only played about five games online so far, but I've been doing a lot of reading, tactics training, and watching various videos on youtube to try and do some learning. One thing that's been sticking out to me in some videos is the concept of the 'light square' and 'dark square' bishops. Certain people also talk about having a 'light square advantage', so is there significance to the distinguishment between the bishops besides just naming convention?

Also, I find it hard to swallow that bishops and knights are truly worth the same considering they do different things.

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Bishops move on diagonals, and on the chessboard a diagonal is always the same color. Look at a chessboard and see for yourself. A bishop can only visit 32 of the 64 squares, either the light ones or the dark ones.

If your Bishop is the same color that your pawns are on, then your pawns block your bishops movements. It is also useless in helping to advance a pawn. I am white, and have a DSB anywhere on the a1-h8 diagonal. You have a pawn chain from c4 through h8 with a LSB. I have  dark square advantage because any pawn move you make I can capture it. You have to move around your pawns to get to the other side in order to aide or attack, I can pass through to either side freely.

If you don't mind a suggestion, start playing with people (not bots) with longer time controls as 30 minutes or more, and then do a full analysis on each and every game with the focus on especially the ones you lose. 15/10 May also be a good place to start. Find one opening for white that you like. Find as for black an openings against 1.e4 and 1.d4, then play only those 3 for a very long time.

Can you checkmate with the bishop?

KB vs K - no, KBB vs K yes.

if ur playing white, u need to ne careful of dark bishops because they can attack u, vice versa if ur black. also imo whether bishops or knights are better, idk but i usually use them to protect each other and hopwfully trade off the knigjts bc no knights and no queen on the board is good time

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"is there significance to the distinguishment between the bishops"
++ A bishop on the same color as your pawns is weaker than on the other color.

"bishops and knights are truly worth the same"
++ A bishop is worth more than a knight. Bishop = knight + 1 tempo
Try the 3 basic checkmates KBB vs. K, KBN vs. K, KNN vs. KP. That shows it.

The basic idea is that one bishop attack one color.  So if you have only one bishop, put your pawns on the other color.  You attack that color with your pawns while making your bishop more mobile.

As a beginner you win need to develop your board vision as well as learning what squares are good and which are bad.  The pawn vs bishop will help in that.