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*Why is the Queen more powerful than the king?

Queen is a military general.
King maybe knows many things, but Queen is more clever about war strategy.
Well if all pieces were the same, it wouldn't be chess, it would be checkers, innit?
In UK, The Queen is the supreme, and same thing was used in chess to name strongest piece while chess was initially developed in West before spreading and popularising in the East.
In Hindi, we call Queen piece as Wazir (anglicised Vizier).
@MohammedElasha said in #10:
> Who told you that.
> If king is dead everything else will be dead.
> He is ruling the entire kingdom.

"Powerfull", not "important". There is a difference beetween those words. And who told you the king has to be dead. You capture the king to get a ransomware. Killing the king results in losing the game, since the goal is to get the king alive.
@Bubble8Splash said in #15:
> "Powerfull", not "important". There is a difference beetween those words.
There is a difference, but power and importance usually complement one another.
@InkyDarkBird said in #16:
> There is a difference, but power and importance usually complement one another.

Not in chess. The king is the most important piece but he is as powerfull as a pawn.
@InkyDarkBird said in #16:
> There is a difference, but power and importance usually complement one another.
Usually, maybe, but not inside this world of ours.
It must kind of rare that way.
I think we are defining power and importance differently from each other.

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