The Queen, interestingly in chess is the most powerful piece on the board. She can move in all directions and for as many spaces as needed to overtake the position of a chess piece for capture.
Her only limitation is that unlike the Knight she cannot jump over a piece.
But then why would she? Her goal is to capture pieces towards the ultimate objective of protecting the King.
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This weekend I played my first game of chess.
My eldest now 23 learned the game from my husband. Like the cello, I have always admired people who played chess.
It truly is a game of thought, forethought and reasoning. Unlike the game of checkers that I learned as a child and play with my youngest who is eleven, chess pieces have names and characters.
Like the elements of fiction, these characters or pieces have 1 or 2 directions in which you can move them, defined tasks that propel the plot of the game.
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Point of View, like chess, is the simplest and most complicated pleasure yet devised for just the kind of mind that would take Creative Writing online. If Character is the casting call and Plot is what happens next, then Point of View is how you set up the camera angles and which lenses you’ll use.
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