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Sub:
Movement/Power of the Queen
Date:
3/08/2005
4:42:48
AM
Mountain Standard Time
From: Brenda
To:
service@chess-poster.com
Your overview
indicates, "About 1580 an Italian suggested making the Queen the
strongest piece instead of the weakest." However, there is no
mention of this in the "Brief Notes on the History..." section.
Are there any references to what changes were made to make the
Queen the strongest piece? I've heard the permissible movement
was greatly expanded/increased. But, from what type of more
limited movement?
I've also heard that women's suffrage movements were responsible
(in part) for the update to the
Queen's capabilities and led to public acceptance of a
strengthen Queen.
However, the
timeframe doesn't seem to fit. Was there any significant
suffrage movement during that period? Why would this occur at
this time? Any thoughts?
chess-poster.com
Dear viewer,
The Queen was not
a powerful major piece until the last part of the 15th century
but few people know that the game existed for five hundred years
without her.
In India, Persia, and the Arab lands, where the
game was first played, a General, or Vizier (Chief Counselor to
the King), occupied the square where the Queen now stands.
Not
until the year 1000, two hundred years after Arab conquerors
brought Chess to southern Europe, did a Chess Queen appear on
the board.
Originally called ‘Mantri’ (Counselor or Minister),
she was the weakest piece, moving only one square at a time on
the diagonal. When Chess first arrived in Europe, the Queen was
permitted to leap three cells.
By 1497, during
the reign of Isabella of Castile, the Chess Queen had become the
formidable force she is today obtaining her present power of
moving along the length of all diagonals, ranks and files.
More information
about the Queen is available at:
http://www.chess-poster.com/english/chesmayne/the_queen.htm
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