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Sac Chess. Game with 60 pieces. (10x10, Cells: 100) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
🕸Fergus Duniho wrote on Thu, Dec 17, 2015 12:57 AM UTC:
Although you might say a Queen combines the powers of a Rook and two Bishops, this is not precisely true. At most, from any given position, a Queen may move as a Rook or as the Bishop on that color. If it's on a Black square, it cannot move diagonally along the White squares, or vice versa. So, for any given move, a Queen's possible moves are limited to those that can be made by a Rook or by one Bishop. This puts a Queen in a grey area between having the power of two pieces and the power of three pieces.