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The queen (♕, ♛) is the most powerful piece in the game of chess. It can move any number of squares vertically, horizontally or diagonally, combining the powers of the rook and bishop. Each player starts the game with one queen, placed in the middle of the first rank next to the king.
Jump chess: The rook, bishop and queen may move from one side of any piece (friend or foe) to the other side in their normal direction of movement. No change for the King and Knight. Jump move is exactly two squares, and can be used to give check or to capture. Jump moves are notated using '^'.
Staunton style chess pieces. Left to right: king, rook, queen, pawn, knight, bishop. The rules of chess (also known as the laws of chess) govern the play of the game of chess. Chess is a two-player abstract strategy board game. Each player controls sixteen pieces of six types on a chessboard. Each type of piece moves in a distinct way.
has a knight ready to jump into the e5-square which the IQP supports. This can be a jumping-off point for an attack. has two pieces controlling the weak d5-square in front of the IQP (queen's knight and light-squared bishop). has three pieces preparing the thematic d4–d5 advance (queen's knight, light-squared bishop, and queen).
Chess set with extra black and white queens for promotion, 35th Chess Olympiad In chess , promotion is the replacement of a pawn with a new piece when the pawn is moved to its last rank . The player replaces the pawn immediately with a queen , rook , bishop , or knight of the same color . [ 1 ]
The movement patterns for Queens and Bishops also changed, with the earliest rules restricting elephants to just two squares along a diagonal, but allowing them to "jump" (seen in the fairy chess piece the alfil); and the earliest versions of queens could only move a single square diagonally (the fairy chess piece Ferz). The modern bishop's ...
Grasshopper chess is a chess variant in which pawns can promote to the fairy piece grasshopper.The grasshopper (shown as an inverted queen) moves as a queen but must jump over a piece and land one square past the piece that they jump in order to move or capture.
The queen is used to keep the king in front of its pawn. The queen is used to prevent the white queen from becoming active. If the queen is on e5 it will draw against a pawn on h7 and queen on g6 or f7 if the black king is in the far corner. The queen is kept active and in a flexible place. It will be more active on c2 than h7.