Queen (chess)

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. Beginners often accidentally interchange the placement of the queen and king, thus the mnemonic "queen on her color." The white queen starts on a white square, and the black queen on a black square. In algebraic notation, the white queen starts on d1 and the black queen on d8.

Related Topics:
Chess - King - Mnemonic - Algebraic notation

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When Chess served as a wargame for battle planning, the Queen represented the King's most experienced and skilled troops rather than the monarch's spouse. In most cases this was his personal guard.

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