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    <p>Are there any obscure chess variations where this is allowed?</p>
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  <p>There are. One name for the queen+knight hybrid piece is the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_%28chess%29" rel="noreferrer">Amazon</a>. As noted in the Wikipedia entry on the Amazon piece I just linked to, the Amazon appears in the variant sometimes called <a href="http://www.chessvariants.org/historic.dir/indiangr1.html" rel="noreferrer">Turkish Great Chess</a>, a game played on a 10x10 board and featuring besides the Amazon (which is typically called a Giraffe in Turkish Great Chess) two other <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairy_chess_piece" rel="noreferrer">fairy chess pieces</a>: a bishop+knight piece (Vizir) and a rook+knight piece (War Machine). (Those sorts of pieces appear under yet different names in the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capablanca_chess" rel="noreferrer">Capablanca Chess</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seirawan_chess" rel="noreferrer">Seirawan Chess</a> variants as well.)</p>
  
  <p><img src="https://i.sstatic.net/JM95T.png" alt="Turkish Great Chess"></p>
  
  <p>A second variant that is mentioned in the Amazon Wikipedia entry is <a href="http://www.chessvariants.org/unequal.dir/maharaja.html" rel="noreferrer">The Maharaja and the Sepoys</a>, which provides a severe test for the might of the Amazon: namely, it pits a lone Amazon (Maharaja) against a standard chess army on an 8x8 board. An Amazon is capable of checkmating a king by itself, and that is its objective, while the standard army is tasked with checkmating the very mobile Amazon. </p>
  
  <p><img src="https://i.sstatic.net/ANfzB.png" alt="Maharaja and the Sepoys"></p>
  
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Body: <p>I find it interesting that the Queen can move with the same capabilities as the Rook and the Bishop, but cannot 'jump' or move like the Knight, I understand that this would overpower the queen but theoretically could make the game more interesting, quicker, or more strategic.</p>
  
  <p>I want to know, what are the practical implications of giving the Queen this extra move-set?</p>
  
  <p>Are there any obscure chess variations where this is allowed?</p>
  
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Comments.Text: One practical implication would be that it could checkmate an enemy king at the edge of the board without help from any other piece.
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Title: Queen with Knight capabilities
ThreadText: # Queen with Knight capabilities
  
  (Asked by: username_0 on 2015-02-01)
  
  I find it interesting that the Queen can move with the same capabilities as the Rook and the Bishop, but cannot 'jump' or move like the Knight, I understand that this would overpower the queen but theoretically could make the game more interesting, quicker, or more strategic.
  
  I want to know, what are the practical implications of giving the Queen this extra move-set?
  
  Are there any obscure chess variations where this is allowed?
  
  **Tags:** rules, chess-variants, history, unorthodox-pieces
  
  > **Comments:**
  > **username_1**: One practical implication would be that it could checkmate an enemy king at the edge of the board without help from any other piece.  
  
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  ### Answer by username_2 on 2015-02-01. Score: 6 | Accepted answer
  
  > Are there any obscure chess variations where this is allowed?
  
  There are. One name for the queen+knight hybrid piece is the [Amazon](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_%28chess%29). As noted in the Wikipedia entry on the Amazon piece I just linked to, the Amazon appears in the variant sometimes called [Turkish Great Chess](http://www.chessvariants.org/historic.dir/indiangr1.html), a game played on a 10x10 board and featuring besides the Amazon (which is typically called a Giraffe in Turkish Great Chess) two other [fairy chess pieces](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairy_chess_piece): a bishop+knight piece (Vizir) and a rook+knight piece (War Machine). (Those sorts of pieces appear under yet different names in the [Capablanca Chess](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capablanca_chess) and [Seirawan Chess](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seirawan_chess) variants as well.)
  
  ![Turkish Great Chess](https://i.sstatic.net/JM95T.png)
  
  A second variant that is mentioned in the Amazon Wikipedia entry is [The Maharaja and the Sepoys](http://www.chessvariants.org/unequal.dir/maharaja.html), which provides a severe test for the might of the Amazon: namely, it pits a lone Amazon (Maharaja) against a standard chess army on an 8x8 board. An Amazon is capable of checkmating a king by itself, and that is its objective, while the standard army is tasked with checkmating the very mobile Amazon.
  
  ![Maharaja and the Sepoys](https://i.sstatic.net/ANfzB.png)
  
  
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