Questions tagged [queens]
Questions relating to the Queen
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Why does a knight combine better with the queen than a bishop does?
From this question, the couple queen + knight is strong in attacking the opponent's king.
I searched why the knight combines better than the bishop with a queen, and all I could find, from this ...
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Which is better, going for checkmate, or forcing immediate resignation?
Let's say you have a position where you can win the opponent's queen in one move and you know he will resign; or you play a combination that is technically stronger since it forces mate, but it takes ...
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Has there ever been a grandmaster-level win where a queen did not move nor get taken throughout the game?
Has there ever been a grandmaster-level win where the queen of the side that won did not move nor get taken throughout the game?
I feel like this is possible even at such a level as the side whose ...
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What is the highest mobility score of a board without a checkmate, stalemate, or draw?
I consider the mobility score of a board to be the number of legal moves one player could make less the number of legal moves the other player could make.
8/7k/2Q2K2/8/6b1/8/8/8 w - - 0 1
Using the ...
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Would a professional level player put their queen in danger of capture from the opposing queen with protection?
Every now and then I will move my queen into a position that puts it in position to be captured by the opposing queen. Sometimes my opponents takes it and I capture their queen immediately. Also, ...
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Losing the queen and then winning the game
Many years ago, I was on a mountain with some people. I was very young then, between 15 and 17 years old, I think. Some older people came and one of them started to play chess with me.
I cannot ...
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King or Queen-Which piece is which?
I recently bought a set of wooden chess pieces, which I liked for its simplicity.
I'm not sure, however, which one is supposed to be the king and which one is supposed to be the queen.
I would say ...
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Historical origin of the queen as a chess piece
As far as I know, chess was introduced at Europe from Arabia by a Spanish king: Alfonso X.
I recently read an article in Spanish press saying the queen was also introduced as a piece in Spain.
The ...
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As black, how should one respond to 4. Qe2 by white in the Russian Game, Damiano Variation?
I recently played a game on as black. My opponent and I transposed into, according to Lichess, the Russian Game, Damiano Variation, when white played Qe2 on move 4. I wasn’t sure how to reply, and I ...
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Why does white sacrifice their queen in this exercise?
I was doing this exercise on lichess, but I don't see why the best move for white is to sacrifice their queen in exchange for a knight (after Nh3+):
[title "lichess puzzle 61517"]
[fen "4r1k1/...
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Can one win with two dark square bishops and two light square bishops and his opponent has only one queen?
Can one win with two dark square bishops and two light square bishops and his opponent has only one queen?
I remember seeing this endgame being analyzed in a video around 10 years ago (and I think ...
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How to record these moves?
Suppose a complete hypothetical positions that white has 6 queens and they are at a1, a4, a7, g1, g4, g7, respectively. How to record the following move in the standard algebraic notation?
Moving the ...
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How to deal with your opponent's queen if your opponent rejects any trades?
If my opponent brings out his/her queen early in the game, I usually attack it with my own queen. The opponent can either accept the trade or reject it. If he/she accepts, I have no questions at all. ...
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Can a King and Queen mate a King and Knight or is this a drawn game?
White has a King and a Queen.
Black has a King and a Knight.
It is White's move. Can White win or is this ending a draw?
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Why didn't the White queen take the Black rook here?
I was seeing this match on chess.com.
[FEN ""]
[StartPly "18"]
1. e4 e5
2. Nf3 Nc6
3. Bc4 h6
4. O-O d6
5. d3 Bg4
6. c3 a6
7. Nbd2 Nf6
8. Qb3 Qe7
9. Qxb7 Nd8
10. Qb3 Be6
11. Qa4+ Bd7
12. Qc2 g6
13. ...
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Why do players resign after accidentally giving their opponent a free queen?
Whenever I verse players in Live Chess (30 minutes) on Chess.com, sometimes I am able to threaten their queen because they brought it out too early in the game. In the opening/beginning to midgame, if ...
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Why can I only move my Queen vertically?
I'm playing a game on chess.com and I want to move my Queen to h7. The website won't let me move it there. I tried moving it to other places but the only way I will let me move it is vertically. Is ...
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Is a queen for two rooks reasonable in this position? What are the disadvantages?
Is Qxe8 reasonable?
I always wanted to trade off a queen against two rooks and the engine likes this idea, but am I leaving my pawns unprotected in this situation?
It would be hard to protect those ...
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Multimove variant rules with queen that does two moves in one
I recall playing a multimove variant special rules chess game where one player (say black) has all the usual pieces, while the other player has just a queen that can do two moves in one.
So the queen ...
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Countering the Wayward Queen Attack
I'm a really new Chess player - I just started playing again after an over 10 year hiatus. I'm (sadly) in the 600s.
I've been studying openings and I seem to do better in games where I can use the ...
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Why is exposing my queen for capture better in this position (According to computer analysis)?
In one my of my game, the following position appeared (me white):
Computer analysis says that I should have played Nf3 (exposing my queen being captured by the bishop). In the proposed scenario by ...
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Is always possible to win King + Queen vs. King + Rook?
Does every situation (except where the Queen team gets mated or the Queen is captured immediately) result in a win for the Queen team? Or can the Rook team, by perfect play, force a stalemate?
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Is this rook sacrifice intended?
rnbqk2r/p1pp1pbp/1p2p1pn/4P3/2BP4/5Q2/PPP2PPP/RNB1K1NR w KQkq - 0 1
Is the rook sacrifice intended by the black to trap white's queen or is it just a misplayed move?
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Q+N in attacking K
I've always been told that Q and N are very strong in attacking K. Could someone show me some real GM games where Q+N attack decides the game? (where at the end of the aggression, the attacking side ...
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How many places can the queen move at each position?
For each square on the board, how many moves could a queen on that space move, including not moving?
Ideally I'd like to see this visualized but I understand if that's not possible.
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Chesscademy Tactic: Is my alternative as good as the right answer?
I've been playing with the Chesscademy app for a while, solving some tactics (which I'm not sure is improving my chess, but it's a good puzzle to kill some time). Today I ran into one tactic that I ...
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Shocking queen sacrifices?
I am a chess beginner and I find queen sacrifices are the most shocking moves I have ever seen.
Please, can you provide me with some shocking examples of queen sacrifices. It need not be a big list, ...
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What is the most queens that have been on the board in a grandmaster game?
There are quite a few grandmaster games with 3 queens or 4 queens, but what is the highest number of queens on the board in a game between two GMs?
I'd be interested in both the most on the board ...
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Beginner Chess Question: Bringing out my queen early?
Sometimes I bring my queen out early, however GMs say "Queen is vulnerable to attack and hinders development" I agree with that but most of the time I only bring it to f3 or around the 3rd-rank ex. b3/...
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What Did Benjamin Franklin Mean by the Quote “Snatch not eagerly at every advantage offered by his unskilfulness or inattention”?
I was reading the following article at http://www.chess.com/forum/view/general/benjamin-franklin-on-the-morals-of-chess, and on the last paragraph, Ben Franklin says "Snatch not eagerly at every ...
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Is it the right choice to lose the queen for two rooks?
Is it the right choice to lose the queen for two rooks for this situation?
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A question about the time to evacuate a queen in a master game
I am studying a book about chess strategy, and in the chapter concerning the d4,e4 center I have this game:
(PACHMAN, VESELY, Pragues, 1953)
r1b2rk1/pp1nqppp/2pb1n2/4p3/2PP4/2N1PN2/P1Q1BPPP/R1B1R1K1 ...
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Moving the queen early in the game - beginner
Ok, I know this will be a vague question... I recently played against a friend three games, and lost all of them, and the problem was that he played his queen very early in the game (second move). I ...
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How many pieces would you sack for a queen? [closed]
I recently played a game where I sacked a knight and a rook for a queen and pawn. That got me thinking, how many pieces would you sack for a queen?
The reason I am not interested in theories is ...
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At what point is sacrificing a queen a bad move?
Obviously if you get checkmate from it it's fine, but at what point does it become unacceptable?
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Does GM Larry Kaufman's “principle of the redundancy of major pieces” truly exists? Or could this effect be caused by the number of Pawns instead?
The following is an extract from The Evaluation of Material Imbalances by GM Larry Kaufman. I put in bold characters everything that was important for this question.
https://www.chess.com/article/...
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How do you win with a queen against a rook? [duplicate]
It is considered that a Queen and King beats a Rook and King. Yet, the technique can be tricky. How is it done the best way?
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How do you checkmate with a queen?
How do you checkmate with a King and Queen versus King?
Is there a method that is faster than other methods in terms of moves?
Is there a foolproof method if you are in time trouble?
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When is a Queen stronger than two Rooks?
Two Rooks are stronger than one Queen. Let's assume that the material is equal, except that one player has a pair of Rooks while the other player has a Queen. In what situations is the Queen stronger ...
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Is the Queen plus pawn versus Queen endgame always a draw?
In a Queen + King versus Queen + King endgame (including zero or more pawns) these is a strong draw tendency due to the fact that a Queen can deliver multiple checks in a row to the opponents open ...
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Shortest possible game with 18 queens?
The selected answer to this question shows a game in which all 16 pawns promote to queens so that there is a total of 18 queens on the board. It takes 80 moves...
What is the shortest sequence of ...
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Maximum number of queens possible
I was thinking about what is the maximum number of queens that can occur on the board after only legal moves. The theoretical upper bound would be 18, the original 2 queens plus all promoted pawns. ...
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Why is the king powerless and the queen powerful?
There's a discussion on meta whether historical questions are allowed or no, and it seems to me that it it's allowed as long as it deals with Chess.
Historically, real kings were powerful, (Alexander ...
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Sicilian defense : what's the best answer to 2.Qh5?
I've seen one video on youtube about the sicilian defense and wanted to try it on a game. In this game, my opponent played 2. Qh5, trying to capture c5,and if b6 then Qd5 and rook is taken whatever I ...
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How do I stop blundering my queen?
I have a particular bad habit when I play chess. I play reasonably well (at least by the standards of people I play with), and am quite careful with my pieces. But in about 80% of games I play, once I ...
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Why can't I place the rook in front of the queen?
I was playing chess this afternoon on my mac, as human vs computer. In the position below:
[FEN "6k1/5pp1/2p3bp/pqP1P3/2R3P1/PPQ5/4K3/8 w - - 0 24"]
I tried to place the Rook in front of Black's ...
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What sense does promotion to queen make?
When a pawn finally reaches the eighth rank, then it can be promoted to rook, knight, bishop or queen. It is not hard to imagine that a soldier who has achieved a lot could be promoted to an officer. ...
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How do you win with a queen against a rook?
What's the technique behind the moves of the stronger side in order to win?
Are there situations where the side with K+R can force a draw against K+Q?
I've read plenty of examples of K+Q vs K+R, but ...
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Trading off two rooks for queen and pawn
I have hardly if ever seen 2 rooks being traded off for queen and pawn (or for just queen) in common games.
Under what conditions is this trade-off advisable?
Why is it fairly uncommon?
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In the immortal draw, why is the Queen sac 9…Qxa4+ considered the best move?
After White's first nine moves in the Immortal Draw:
[FEN ""]
1.e4 e5 2.Nc3 Bc5 3.Na4 Bxf2+ 4.Kxf2 Qh4+ 5.Ke3 Qf4+ 6.Kd3 d5 7.Kc3 Qxe4 8.Kb3 Na6 9.a3
Why is 9...Qxa4+ the best move here? Doesn't ...
