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The queen is the strongest piece . She moves far in every direction . But for a long time , she was weak . The story starts in India . Around the 500s , people there played a war game . It had a king , elephants , horses and foot soldiers . An advisor stood next to the king . He moved only one square at a time , on a diagonal . The game travelled west to Persia . Persia was an old kingdom . By the year 1000 , people across Europe played it too . In Europe , the advisor got a new name . People called him the queen . She stood next to the king , like a real queen . Games were slow , and many games lasted days . Around 1475 , something changed in Valencia . Valencia is a city in Spain . Three men there wrote a poem about a chess game . In the poem , the queen goes far , in a straight line or on a diagonal . The new rules travelled fast across Europe . With a strong queen , a player could win in fewer moves . The game became much faster . The queen stands next to the king , like the old advisor . But now she is the strongest piece . 
