Historically called the
QUEEN

VIZIER or ADVISOR
COUNSELLOR

 

The Queen - Slider - Value 9 - is the most powerful Chess piece, combining the powers of the Tower and the Bishop. It moves along an unobstructed path any number of squares horizontally, vertically or diagonally.

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• GREAT CHESS optional power.
  The Queen may also retire her own Soldiers (Pawns) by moving to their square - and retiring them from the game.

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“I am come amongst you, in the midst and heat of the battle, to live and die amongst you all; to lay down for my God, and for my kingdom, and my people, my honour and my blood, even in the dust. I know I have the body of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king, and of a king of England too.”

Elizabeth I at Tilbury in 1588, as the invading Spanish Armada sailed into the English Channel.