Questions tagged [queens]
Questions relating to the Queen
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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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Has there been a game which was drawn with three queens?
One of my friends who follows chess told me that there was a player in the past whose defensive game was so good that he drew a game in which the opponent had three queens. I couldn't find a game like ...
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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 in this quote?
I was reading thenarticle at http://www.chess.com/forum/view/general/benjamin-franklin-on-the-morals-of-chess, and in the last paragraph, Ben Franklin says "Snatch not eagerly at every advantage ...
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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 b ...
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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/view/...
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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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What is the shortest possible game with 18 queens?
This question demonstrates a game in which all 16 pawns promote for a total of 18 queens on the board. It takes 80 moves...
What is the shortest sequence of moves that achieves this goal?
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Maximum number of queens possible
I was thinking about what the maximum number of queens can be on the board after only legal moves. The theoretical upper bound would be 18, the original 2 queens plus 16 promoted pawns.
However, to ...
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Why is the king powerless and the queen powerful?
Historically, real kings were powerful (Alexander the Great, Napoleon Bonaparte etc.) and women were powerless. The game of chess began in Asia, some say, and the women were definitely powerless there....
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How do I trap the queen once it pins my rook?
I am playing as Black in this game, and after 10. Qg4, I realize that White wanted my rook. I knew I could trap the queen once it went for the rook (11. Qxg7), but I forgot how. I went on to win the ...
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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? [closed]
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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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 ""]
[title "Hamppe-Meitner, Vienna"]
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....
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Does 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 f6 have to be a bad opening?
There seems to be a pretty nifty attack for White after 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 f6:
[FEN ""]
1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 f6 3.Nxe5 fxe5 4.Qh5+ g6 5.Qxe5+ Qe7 6.Qxh8
I've played as White with this opening several times, ...
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What is the best way to free your queen as soon as possible?
We can open games in many ways (any of the pawns or knights) and then go ahead with different strategies. The queen being the most important piece, I would like to get it out in the field without ...
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