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The Queen is the most powerful piece.

She combines the power of both the rook and the bishop and thus can move in any straight line, horizontally, vertically, or diagonally.

As with the rook and bishop, if she can reach a square where an opponent's piece sits, she can capture it.

Please note that capturing is not mandatory: when a capture is possible a piece still has the choice of declining it and can go somewhere else or the player can simply decide to make another piece.

## Notes

* Queen is the most powerful and the strongest piece in chess.
* There are in total of two Queens in the chess board.
* There are only one Queen on each side (White and Black).
* A Queen is worth nine points (the most point in all of the pieces).
* Queen can make Pawn, Knight, Bishop, and Rook moves.

## How to protect your Queen

* Try to 'hide' your Queen behind pawns, so that the pawns will help prevent their enemies to capture the Queen easily.
* Try not to place your Queen in front of the King. The opponent might uses his/her Rook to give you a threat on the Queen and your Queen, obviously will be captured in the next move or so.
* Be careful that a Knight will 'fork' on your King and your Queen at the same time. To prevent this, move your Queen far away from your King.
* Try to make a plan on how to let your rook protect it so it can just capture the opponents chess pieces.

## Trivia

* Chess Queen is the most powerful chess piece in a Chess board. Actually she is a Combination of Rook & Bishop. So she can Travel through rows or Columns and Diagonally as well. Each player will have a Queen in the beginning of a game & She is next to the King. That is just as real World. Not Like King she owns her Color. That means her original or initial square is player's own Color. White Queen is in White Square & black Queen is in a Black Square. Also White Queen start with d1 & Black Queen start with d8 squares. Normally we say that Queen Greater than Bishop - Castle Combination. Yes That is true. In the End Game Queen become a massive attacker. She can Check King for Continues Steps Until get Finished. So Normally Player are not going to keep opponent's Queen in the Board for Long time. All knows When She get a chance she will go for a KILL. Therefore most player used to exchange Queen in the beginning if they don't have a Great Plan. That is somewhat safer than keeping her silent.
* The queen was originally the counsellor or prime minister or vizier (Sanskrit *mantri*, Persian *farzīn*, Arabic *firzān* or *firz*). Initially it could move only one square diagonally. Around 1300 CE its move was enhanced to allow it to move two squares with jump onto a same-colored square[*clarification needed*] for its first move, to help the sides to come into contact sooner.
* The *fers* changed into the queen over time. The first surviving mention of this piece as a queen or similar was "regina" in the Einsiedeln Poem, written in Latin around 997 and preserved in a monastery at Einsiedeln in Switzerland. Some surviving early medieval pieces depict the piece as a queen, and the word *fers* became grammatically feminized in several languages, for example *alferza* in Spanish and *fierce* or *fierge* in French,[3] before it was replaced with names such as *reine* or *dame* (lady). The *Carmina Burana* also refer to the queen as *femina* (woman) and *coniunx* (spouse),[4] and the name *Amazon* has sometimes been seen.[5]
* In Russian it keeps its Persian name of *ferz* to this day; *koroleva* (queen) is colloquial and is never used by professional chess players. However, the names *korolevna* (king's daughter), *tsaritsa* (tsar's wife), and *baba* (old woman) are attested as early as 1694.[6] In Arabic countries the queen remains termed, and in some cases depicted as a vizier.[7]
* Historian Marilyn Yalom proposes that the prominence of medieval queens such as Eleanor of Aquitaine and Blanche of Castile and Isabella I of Castile, the cult of the Virgin Mary,[4] and the power ascribed to women in the troubadour tradition of courtly love, might have been partly responsible for influencing the piece towards its identity as a queen and later its modern great power on the board, as might the medieval popularity of chess as a game particularly suitable for women to play on equal terms with men.[8] She points to medieval poetry depicting the Virgin as the chess-queen of God or *Fierce Dieu*.[9] Significantly, the earliest surviving treatise to describe the modern movement of the queen (as well as the bishop and pawn), *Repetición de amores e arte de axedres con CL iuegos de partido* (*Discourses on Love and the Art of Chess with 150 Problems*) by Luis Ramírez de Lucena, was published during the reign of Isabella I of Castile.[10]Even before that, the Valencian poem Scachs d'amor ("Chess of Love") depicted a chess game between Francesc de Castellví and Narcís de Vinyoles[11] and commented on by Bernat Fenollar, which clearly had the modern moves of the queen and the bishop. Well before the queen's powers expanded, it was already being romantically described as essential to the king's survival, so that when the queen was lost, there was nothing more of value on the board.[12]