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The Queen Chess Moves

“The Queen can move horizontally along ranks,”

“vertically on files,“

“or along either diagonal.“

“The Queen cannot move OVER another piece (of either color).

“Like the King, the Queens may capture the Black Pawn by moving to the square it occupies (but no farther).“

“The Queen is the most powerful piece because of her ability to attack so many squares simultaneously.”

The queen is the most powerful piece in the game of chess. Each player starts the game with one queen, placed in the middle of their first rank next to their king. The white queen starts on a white square, and the black queen on a black square, thus the mnemonic “queen gets her color” or “queen on color”. In algebraic notation, the white queen starts on d1, and the black queen on d8.

In the historical ancestors of chess, shatranj, the queen was a fairly weak piece called a fers or vizier, only able to move or capture one square in a diagonal direction. The modern queen’s move arose in 15th century Europe.

The piece is archaically known as the minister.