The queen hobbles along, one square ... pieces with Persian names.” A great number of non-English words for chess, such as the Russian shakhmaty, derive from shah, the Persian word for king.

The world's top chess grandmaster apparently made a fat finger error for the ages when he accidentally lost a game by dropping his queen on the wrong square — and ...

The first key concept of this Checkmate is that the Black King ... the Queen and the Bishop, which lead to it being captured. If there had been an additional Black piece protecting the f7 square ...

The circular, distributed across the south side of Glasgow, drew 26 men keen on the game to found Queen’s Park Chess Club ... “I was putting my pieces on the wrong squares,” Rankine adds ...