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How queens move and capture

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1. Queens can move in any direction, up, down or diagonally in a straight line.
 
2. If a queen moves to a square occupied by an opponent's piece, then that piece is captured and removed from the chessboard as part of the same move.
 
*See how queens capture an opponent's piece

(*Link courtesy Richard James @ ChessKids Academy)