How to Use the Queen | Chess Video Lecture | Learn to Play Chess: From a Novice to a Fierce Competitor - Hobbies

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this is David Sullivan for chess NYC
with the Queen the queen is the most
powerful piece in chess but she's not
the most important the Queen combines
the powers of the rook and the bishop a
queen can move up down and sideways just
like a rook but she can also move along
the diagonals like a bishop so if you
get your Queen in a typically good
position which is in the center of the
board the Queen radiates power out in
all directions and can control a lot of
space at once here to illustrate the
power of the Queen what she can and
cannot do here we have a white queen in
the middle of the board and we have some
black pieces around her in this position
the Queen can move in a straight line
she could capture the rook or she could
capture the Queen or she could capture
this bishop if she captured the bishop
then we see the rook could capture the
Queen back however from our starting
position the Queen is not able to
capture this rook on c2 notice the queen
is not in a straight line to the rook so
the Queen cannot get this rook and the
Queen is not in a straight line along
the diagonal towards this bishop so the
Queen cannot capture this bishop item
and that's how we use the Queen
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