Queen (chess) to the announcement of "check". Some published rules even required this announcement before the queen could be legally captured. This custom was largely abandoned in the 19th century. In Russia for a long time the queen could also move like a knight; some players disapproved of this ability to "gallop like the horse" (knight). The book "A History of Chess" by H.J.R. Murray, page 384, says that William Coxe who was in Russia in 1772 saw chess played with the queen also moving like a knight. Such an augmented queen piece is now known as the fairy chess piece "amazon".
Fairy chess piece David Parlett used a notation to describe fairy piece movements. The move is specified in the form m={"expression"}, where "m" stands for "move", and the "expression" is composed from the following elements: The following can be added to Parlett's to make it more complete: The format (not including grouping) is: <conditions> <move type> <distance> <direction> <other> On this basis, the traditional chess moves (excluding castling and "en passant" capture) are: Ralph Betza created a classification scheme for fairy chess pieces (including standard chess pieces) in terms of the moves of basic pieces with modifiers. Capital letters stand for basic leap