IIRC the reason the queen is such a powerful piece is because the original piece was called something like “The Commander” or “The Champion”, and the idea of that being a separate person from the King didn’t make sense once the game reached Europe amid the chivalric code and specific rules about how lords and monarchs are to be handled on the battlefield.
You’re probably after the vizier. Apocryphally, the queen’s moves as currently seen originated when Queen Isobella I of Spain was pissed that the queen was a weak piece, it did indeed arise in Spain during her reign, whether for that reason is left to the reader’s imagination.
I thought there was no queen back then, because you can have several queen pawns, and it must always have one queen.
Tfw no harem in chess
Correct. In India the piece is called “Wajeer” which is basically Commander in Chief
She can slay me
The king is not weak. In 100% of games it’s the last piece to fall.
Statistically the pawn to the rightmost of the white king also survives in some 70%, while the queen only has about 49% chance of survival to the end.
The knights and the pawn in front of the queen are the first to go.
The king is not weak. In 100% of games it’s the last piece to fall.
Yes, well that’s because he puts everyone else in harm’s way first. Typical behavior for a “noble”.
In 100% of games it’s the last piece to fall.
I see we haven’t been matched yet. I will quit in any of these cases (I call these legal cheats, because frankly it shouldn’t be allowed):
- castling, obviously
- en passant, obviously
- promotion, obviously
- horsey jumping in front of the pawns as first move (wtf)
- pawns moving 2 squares (op)
- bishop taking my rook (unfair, I didn’t mean that last move)
- me having the black (imba)
When en passant is forced but now you have to resign because you played a legal cheat
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The parallel to real battles is amusing from a symbolic perspective. The survivors are the useless pieces of shit who can’t even attack.
That’s woke. #CancelChess.
The real story is how a king as old and frail as him managed to get a queen as young, fit and loyal as her, willing to slay anything that appears within her sight…
The king is just 30, but his body is so frail from the hourly snu snu.
Just look at her.
He’s getting no rest at all.
Salute
…and centuries of royal inbreeding
It was an arranged marriage. She was 14
I don’t think it’d be hard to convince most girls to become a literal queen.
Everyone here knows that the only way to know who’s the best chess player is by having a best of 3 1v1 king only final destination with no item
Shouldn’t the black king be on a white square and the queen on her own colour?
They’re white
Doesn’t the Queen sit on her own colour?
She sits wherever she wants, thank you very much!
Slayyyy
He might be feeble and only able to move a step at a time but he is radioactive. Anyone who is backed into a corner by him is dead meat. Dude is terrifying.
