The queen is the most powerful chess piece, as she has the combined powers of a rook and a bishop.
The queen may move to any square along the file, the rank or a diagonal on which it stands.
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Quotes of the Day
It isn’t important what comes off the board, but what stays on!
Yasser Seirawan
I may be an old lion, but I can still bite someone’s hand off if he puts it in my mouth
Wilhelm Steinitz
No player, however strong, no member, however large, shall stand above FIDE
Florencio Campomanes
The main thing is that you’ve got to keep on studying however old you are. You can’t just rely on your capital, so you have to try and keep up, and that is a difficult task.
Nigel Short 2016
” Chess is most certainly not my life.”
Tony Miles