Empress (chess) and marshal are popular names for the rook+knight compound, although a case could be made for marshal, as the word is related to "mare" (female horse) and thus fits better for a piece that can move like a knight than chancellor, which has no connection to horses. Also, there are many commonly used chess pieces that, like chancellor, begin with "C" (e.g. the cannon in xiangqi, the camel in Tamerlane Chess, the champion in Omega Chess, and the cardinal or princess), and using the name marshal for the rook+knight compound would reduce this difficulty. The name empress is more widely
Cheating in chess the piece intended to be played should be touched, and taking more than five minutes to move should simply mean defeat. (As chess clocks are "still" practically unknown even in modern India, it was out of question during the middle of 19th century — the period in which the film is set.) In contrast to the modern methods of cheating by playing moves calculated by machines, in the 18th and 19th centuries, the public were hoaxed by the opposite deception in which machines played moves of hidden humans. The first and most famous of the chess automaton hoaxes was The