Influence On Chess
In Shatranj, from which modern chess developed, the piece corresponding to the modern chess "queen" (though far weaker) was often called Wazīr. Up to the present, the word for the queen piece in chess is still "vezér" in Hungarian (meaning "leader"), "vazīr" in Persian, "vezir" in Turkish, and "wazir" in Arabic.
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