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by JohnJamesRambo 1798 days ago
What did the queen do before then?
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btilly 1798 days ago
The queen was called a fers, and could only move one space diagonally according to most descriptions.
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gus_massa 1798 days ago
More details: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rules_of_chess#History
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boomboomsubban 1798 days ago
Even more details, like how Queen Isabella may have inspired the change and that it was common to declare the queen in "check" for quite some time. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen_(chess)#History
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dvirsky 1798 days ago
> ... the ability of pawns to be queened was restricted while the original queen was still on the board, so as not to cause scandal by providing the king with more than one queen.

This is awesome :)

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