Empress (chess)

A common icon for the empress used in diagrams

The empress is a fairy chess piece that can move like a rook or a knight. It cannot jump over other pieces when moving as a rook but may do so when moving as a knight. The piece has acquired many names[a] and is frequently called a chancellor or a marshal.

Chess moves in this article use C as notation for the empress.

  1. ^ Pritchard, D. B. (1994), "Pieces", The Encyclopedia of Chess Variants, Games & Puzzles Publications, p. 227, ISBN 0-9524142-0-1


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