<P> At various times, the ability of pawns to be queened was restricted while the original queen was still on the board, so as not to cause scandal by providing the king with more than one queen . An early 12th - century Latin poem refers to a queened pawn as a ferzia, as opposed to the original queen or regina, to account for this . </P> <P> When the queen was attacked, it was customary to warn the opponent by announcing "gardez la reine" or simply "gardez", similar 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 . </P> <P> 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 . </P> <P> Around 1230 the queen was also independently invented as a piece in Japan where it formed part of the game of dai shogi, and was retained in its later form, the smaller chu shogi . </P>

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