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[โ€“] cynar@lemmy.world 68 points 6 months ago (1 children)

It makes a lot more sense in the earlier versions of chess. The queen used to be the "Vizier". The sultan made the decisions, the Vizier ran around and implemented them.

that's what it's called in my language.