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== Queen sacrifice ==

{{main|Queen sacrifice}}

==History==

The queen was originally the ''fers'' (counsellor or prime minister) and had a quite different movement. In Persia it was called the ''ferzin'' and later the ''firz''. Initially it could move only one square diagonally. About 1300 its move was enhanced to allow it to jump two squares diagonally, which was the same move as the [[bishop (chess)|bishop]] at the time. For a while it was also allowed to jump like a [[knight (chess)|knight]] once in the game, somewhat analogous to [[castling]] for the [[king (chess)|king]]. This rule was used in Turkey and Russia until the 18th Century. During the 16th Century the move took its modern form as a combination of the move of the [[rook (chess)|rook]] and the current move of the bishop {{harvcol|Davidson|1981|pp=13-14,28-30}}.