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Empress (chess)
Fairy chess piece / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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[lower-alpha 1] and is frequently called a chancellor, a knook or a marshal.
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Chess moves in this article use C as notation for the empress.