Why can't you move your Queen like a Knight?

If the Queen also had the power of a knight it would be able to force checkmate unaided. But worse, it would destroy chess as a worthwhile game.

If you want to move your Queen like a Knight you'll need to go visit the Chess-Variant characters. They play (games like this) which has a Chancellor (Rook + Knight) and a Hawk (jumps around in diagonal directions).

I agree! Or it would be fun if a friendly knight is allowed to jump next to the king, and then the knight and king can then jump together safely by a knight's move.

But this is the General Chess forum (not Chess Variants) so if we keep talking about it here the Moderators might bust us!

Seriously??

No

What the hell are you talking about?

Anyway, why can't you move your knight like a queen?

Imagine the queen in the middle of a 5x5 board.

All the squares she isn't attacking are all the square a knight could move to.

I.e. their movements compliment each other. Makes for a more interesting game.

Because it travels at the speed of light, i wanna make a supersonic woman of you. :)

It would be able to get out of like 99% of the traps you put it into.