queen
chess piece, able to move any number of squares vertically, horizontally or diagonally
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Summary
queen is a chess term[1]. queen ranks in the top 9% of chess term entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (3,462 views/month).[2]
Key Facts
- Subclass of: major piece[3], chess piece[4]
- Commons category: Chess queens[5]
- Unicode character: ♕[6], ♛[7]
- Sport: chess[8]
- Described by source: Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[9], Explanatory Dictionary of the Living Great Russian Language[10]
- Stack Exchange tag: https://chess.stackexchange.com/tags/queens[11]
- Short name: D[12], V[13], Д[14], Q[15], L[16], ლ[17], Β[18], M[19], B[20], У[21], Б[22], H[23], Ф[24]
- Different from: Dame[25], Queen[26], Dama[27], Königin[28], Dronning[29]
- Portable Game Notation: Q[30]
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Influence
Things named for queen include Queen's Gambit[31], a chess opening[32] and Eight queens puzzle[33], a mathematical chess problem[34].
Why It Matters
queen has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[35] queen is known by 57 alternative names across languages and contexts.[36]
Entities named for queen include Queen's Gambit[31], a chess opening[32] and Eight queens puzzle[33], a mathematical chess problem[34].