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Does Anyone Know What A Rook Is In Real Life?
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When I search it up, all it shows is the chess piece, which is so useless!
Apr 8, 2020
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ZoomorBoom wrote:
When I search it up, all it shows is the chess piece, which is so useless!
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rook_(chess)#History
Where did you search?
In there it said it's a tower.
That's not a soldier so how does it travel faster than a knight, which has a horse?
Please use logic chess!
Apr 8, 2020
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ZoomorBoom wrote:
In there it said it's a tower.
That's not a soldier so how does it travel faster than a knight, which has a horse?
Please use logic chess!
Please use your reading comprehension skills, @zoomorboom. The first paragraph in the URI:
"In the medieval shatranj, the rook symbolized a chariot. The Persian word rukh means chariot (Davidson 1949:10), and the corresponding piece in the original Indian version chaturanga has the name ratha (meaning "chariot")."
oh I didn't actually read it I just looked at the picture of a tower
thanks for reading it for me @autobunny
autobunny wrote:
ZoomorBoom wrote:
In there it said it's a tower.
That's not a soldier so how does it travel faster than a knight, which has a horse?
Please use logic chess!
Please use your reading comprehension skills, @zoomorboom. The first paragraph in the URI:
"In the medieval shatranj, the rook symbolized a chariot. The Persian word rukh means chariot (Davidson 1949:10), and the corresponding piece in the original Indian version chaturanga has the name ratha (meaning "chariot")."
It said the rook symbolized, not is one.
for the second paragraph, it's kinda irrelevant because we still don't know what it is in English
Nylonsock wrote:
A “Rook “ is the name of a large black bird.
where did you look that up? it's relatively true...
Nylonsock wrote:
I live in the country side , I see these birds nearly every day .
countryside, in netherlands! awesome...."الرخ", Arabic name for rook, is a mythological black bird, so big that it feeds on elephants and such...but you realize that chess game has an indo-persian orgin right?..it's confusing if you ask me...some say that chess wasn't invented by humans...
i completely agree, i mean why not!
So if a rook is a bird that means the 2nd most powerful piece in chess is a bird
Once again, Chess, please use logic!
ZoomorBoom wrote:
Does anyone know? All of them are soldiers except for the rook, which looks more like a castle tower.
A bishop isn't soldier, it's a church rank
Does anyone know? All of them are soldiers except for the rook, which looks more like a castle tower.