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
Shouldn’t the black king be on a white square and the queen on her own colour?
She can slay me
Doesn’t the Queen sit on her own colour?
She sits wherever she wants, thank you very much!
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.
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)
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”.
