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Hi there.

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In this election, we're going to have a look at the queen.

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The queen is a bit like a rook and the bishop combined together.

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So we can actually go in all directions here.

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We could if it's our turn, we could take this rook, we could take this bishop.

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It'll be a little bit unwise.

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But we could take the knights, but they could recapture.

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So ideally, I would take the rook here.

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The queen is block by your own pieces.

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You can't jump over your pieces, so you can't go over here because it's blocked by that one.

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We can also go, you know, this way and up here, we can't go through the opponent's pieces.

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We can only go up to these things.

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We can't go over to.

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The eight were blocked by the opponents piece as well.

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But we can capture the opponents, as mentioned.

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Can't go over here, but we can go here.

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But that be a bad move they could take so we can go up to there, but we can't go over here just to

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clarify.

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And you can't go over your own pawn.

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You can go here now, say you did want to go over your own pawns.

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You'd have to move them forward.

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So say queen here.

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And we wanted to go to for as you might expect, we just go after first and then we've got access to

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both G4 and H5.

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G4 will be safer, but in the initial position, if it was more of a real possession, we just take

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the rock here, that would be the best move.

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So the Queen is like the top scorer.

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If it was like football, you know, especially European football, the queen's like the top scorer

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is going to school you so many games.

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But a common mistake is to bring the queen out too early.

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But we'll get to that later.

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For the moment.

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Just bear in mind, the queen is a bit of a combination between a rock and a bishop.

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And here we can see I'm going to highlight the legal moves here for you.

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So basically we can do all of these movements and we can do free of these captures in this position

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so we can capture her.

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Or here or here, we can actually move here, here, here, here and here and see how we can get the

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idea.

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So it's a combination of Rook and Bishop essentially.

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So I hope that's clarified the queen.

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OK.

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So much.