Change Queen's name as Lion !

Have been playing chess for the past seven decades (70) years.

Have a naming problem with a piece.

I find the most powerful piece in chess game is Queen. Queen is endowed with the movements of Both Rooks(White and Black) and Both Bishops(White and Black). The most feared piece in chess is Queen. Fortunately or unfortunately the Queen can't move like a Knight, if that was also allowed, how a chess game would have looked ? Having said all this, in a typical Royal Palace, the Queen is the most adored and respected lady with minimal movements. This is where i find the name Queen wrong and instead to be called as a Lioness. When queen moves in the board, she is fearless and swallows opponent's unsupported pieces just like a Lioness in the jungle world. With this introduction, Can We Change the name of Queen to a Lioness ?

Please think it over and have a Big Laugh, if you feel this is a stupid recommendation !

vsmanju

This post made my day — what a creative perspective! 🦁♟️

I love the image of the Queen as a “Lioness” on the board: fierce, tactical, and always hunting down unsupported pieces. There's something poetic about that. And honestly, your description of how the Queen dominates the board does sound like jungle royalty in action!

While I don’t think the name is likely to change after centuries of tradition, your idea adds a beautiful metaphor to how we can think about that piece. I’ll be seeing the Queen as a Lioness the next time she charges across the board. 🧠✨

Thank you for 70 years of chess and for sharing your thoughtful (and fun!) idea with the community.

I am happy whence forth you will see the opponent's queen as a lioness hunting for it's prey. It's also interesting that this post made the day for you !

Thanks for your compliments about my creative thought.

Best Wishes to Chess Players.

It's interesting that "queen" bothers you, but "bishop" and "rook" doesn't.

Better rename the Knight into the Pony

no, calling the Queen a lioness would make her afraid of skunks, no longer fearless.

Rook and Bishop do bother me, but i am just scared of the mighty Queen/Lioness

The queen is two in one - Both Rook and Bishop. If i am frightened of queen, it indirectly includes the scare of both Rook and Bishop

Chess game is a typical old type war scenario in the traditional sense. In wars Elephants, Horses, Lions were used to win the battle. The movements of chess pieces are based on these animal movements. An Elephant can walk straight or turn to left or right. This is how the movements of Rook have been designed. Knight can jump just like a Horse.

In fact, in local Indian Language a Rook is Called an Elephant and a Knight is called a Horse.

I think hippos are scarier than lions

So one more name for queen - Hippo ?

Lion is the King of the Jungle-Queen is the real frightening piece in chess, that's why calling Queen a Lioness is logical instead of as a Hippo

> A Knight is called a Horse

Nah, I dont like the notation for the Horse like Hh3, so let is be the Pony

Bishop should be also renamed into something starting from any letter after H.

Que ?

Bishop in local indian Kannada language is named as ONTE; Rook as AANE and Knight as KUDURE

"Pony" wound be enough

I knew that @LionQueen777 would leave a comment here one day

The name "Queen" came in replacement of "Vizir" (as in Prime Minister) when the game of chess came from the Arab & Persian world to Europe.

I suppose, not only "Prime Minister" was unfit a name, for being long and not very epic (nor glamourous like one would maybe say nowadays), but also, one shall not under estimate the value of a Queen in Europe in the Middle Age.

Elianor d'Aquitaine

ruled successively England then France, as undisputed and legitimate Queen, which is a unique fate in human History, for what I know. Other queens, such as Catherine de Medicis, did not let behind them, a feel of weakness "bien au contraire".

One could mention Joan of Arc, even if she never was a Queen, she came as a figure that maybe inspired the name for the chess piece...

The Queen was anyhow second in command after the King, when the King was alive, and ruled the Kingdom if the King died before a son was grown up enough. Besides, we did not burn them alive alongside the dead body of their husband: Queens were not so "expandable items" in Europe.

Lions, for their part, did nothing much more in History than chewing some bits of meat here and there. Which is, well, not so glorious. Or is it?