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Now that you know how the Rook and the Bishop move, you are ready to have a look at the game’s most powerful piece: discover how the Queen moves.

The Queen combines the power of a Rook and a bishop. A Queen can move as far as it wants on the chessboard, horizontally, vertically and diagonally.

The Queen is an extremely powerful piece, hence the opposing King often opts for castling to protect himself against it.

If you are comfortable with the way the Queen moves, you are probably ready to tackle the Knight’s move, that is a lot trickier !

Some other articles are discussing the interactions with friend pieces and how to capture pieces in Chess.

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