Talk:Queen (chess)

message: I think I read somewhere that in case a pawn makes it all the way to the opposite edge of the board it may be exchanged for a queen. If this is true it should be included in the article.
:Note that it doesn't necessarily have to be a queen, it can promote to any piece of its own colour except a king. Insanephantom (please comment on my Editor Review!) 12:47, 6 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:   pawn turns into queen 

message: I removed the unnecessary "Queen." from the diagram caption; it isn't really required. Yuser31415 (Editor review two!) 07:02, 24 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Removed 

message: The diagram showing initial placement of the queens is wrong; they're shown on the king's file. Akwdb (talk) 18:11, 24 August 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Bubba73 You talkin' to me? 18:17, 24 August 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Initial placement 

message: I think it would be appropriate to add the example of Bobby Fischer's brilliant queen sacrifice on the way to winning The Game of the Century. The two places I was considering putting it were the end of the 1st paragraph under Piece value, or under Queen sacrifice.
Do others agree? Where would you put it?  DoctorEric (talk) 17:57, 21 March 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Certainly appropriate, I would say, and the Queen sacrifice section seems the best spot. - DavidWBrooks (talk) 18:21, 21 March 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: I suggest take a look at :pt:Dama_(xadrez)#Sacrifício_da_Dama which mentions others very famous sacrifices. Opera game, Evergreen game and Immortal Game also sacrifice the Queen. OTAVIO1981 (talk) 11:35, 22 March 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Example of sacrificing queen 

message: "In Russia for a long time the queen could also move like a knight; some players disappproved of this ability to "gallop like the horse (= knight)". - sources given:
*  (in Russian)
*  (in Russian)
The claim was added by User:Anthony_Appleyard, the sources (?) by User:D.M. from Ukraine. But these are, as far as I can see, only dictionaries (and not too serious ones), not  supporting the statement. I ask for clarification and better sources. --KnightMove (talk) 16:35, 17 May 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: These sources are on-line versions of a well-known Vladimir Dal's Russian dictionary. It is really understandable from that article of the dictionary that once the queen could move like a knight if the players approved this. But I agree that some better sources would be desirable. --D.M. from Ukraine (talk) 20:17, 17 May 2013 (UTC)
replies: text:  I confirmed the reference in A History of Chess, by Murray.  Bubba73 You talkin' to me? 23:52, 17 May 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: Thank you all - I'm sorry for being too sceptic and harsh in the edit summary. --KnightMove (talk) 12:42, 20 May 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Moving like a knight? 

message: The first line says that it's the most powerful piece.  However, isn't that subjective?  I think the King is the most powerful piece if you base it on winning/losing the game.  If your King is checkmated, you lose.  You cannot be without a King.  I think "most powerful" should be removed, as it's misleading.  Even though most people associate the Queen with 9 points (the most second to the King -- which is infinity), this is still a matter of opinion, as some people give it 10 or some may even put it less than a rook.  Also, if the Queen is in a terrible position, then it's worth less points.
Maybe it should be reworded to say, "Most players attribute it the most points, second to the King, and therefore, deem it more important than the pawn, bishop, knight, and rook at least in the opening/middle.  In the endgame, the pawns may be closer to the edges which can change into Queens, so they may be equal to Queens...."
Or something like that.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.240.86.80 (talk) 07:02, 21 January 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: The King is the most valuable, not the most powerful. Thats what the scoring is about. The text is fine. A pawn on the seventh is still just a pawn and the threat it poses is potential rather than real. Jkmaskell (talk) 09:29, 21 January 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  most powerful piece? 

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thread_title:  External links modified 

message: The claim attributed to Yalom that "Eleanor of Aquitaine and Blanche of Castile and Isabella I of Castile, the cult of the Virgin Mary,and the power ascribed to women in the troubadour tradition of courtly love," contributed to the promotion of the queen's power in chess was already made by Henry Adams in his famous book The Mont Ste-Michel and Chartres. It also contradicts the later thesis attributed to Yalom that in fact this shift came about under Isabel la Catolica - hundreds of years later - and spread through Europe because of the printing press and the expulsion of the Sephardic Jews (2604:2000:C5CA:AF00:7D57:B7F3:A393:1704 (talk) 14:47, 25 October 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: I'd be in favour of trimming or eliminating the Yalom material. It is pure speculation and not supported by any other historian or academic that I know of. MaxBrowne2 (talk) 06:56, 7 November 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Yalom 

message: It would we very desirable if we put in the article the famous table of powers for figures of chess because I think chess figures have some nice properties even outside the game of chess itself. Momentaly I have no time to do that but I'll try some day. I must say I don't like the games itself and I don't play it well, but I prefer very much problems related to the game (for example the famous 8 queen problem and similar ones). If you mean the relative strengths of the pieces (queen = 9 points, rook = 5 points etc.), this is already covered in Chess/Strategy and Tactics.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A00:F41:287B:C691:0:60:CB5F:B301 (talk) 18:25, 22 January 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Power of chess figures