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The rook (Corvus frugilegus) is a member of the family Corvidae in the passerine order of birds. It is found in the Palearctic, its range extending from...26 KB (3,305 words) - 22:41, 13 May 2024- The rook and bishop versus rook endgame is a chess endgame where one player has just a king, a rook, and a bishop, and the other player has just a king...23 KB (2,851 words) - 06:29, 11 April 2024
- Rookie (redirect from Rook (person))(London, Herbert Jenkins: 1915). Perhaps the expression is derived from "rook", whereby a "rookie" would be someone who is cheated or defrauded. In some...10 KB (1,407 words) - 03:20, 15 March 2024
- The rook and pawn versus rook endgame is a fundamentally important, widely studied chess endgame. Precise play is usually required in these positions...60 KB (7,276 words) - 03:55, 15 June 2024
- a chess endgame of a king, bishop, and pawn versus king, a wrong rook pawn is a rook pawn (a pawn on the a- or h-file) whose promotion square is the opposite...21 KB (2,227 words) - 07:16, 6 December 2023
- Glossary of chess (redirect from Rook pawn)rook to treat a half-open file as if it were an open file, or a closed file as if it were half-open. rook pawn Or rook's pawn. A pawn on the rook's file...261 KB (24,685 words) - 20:56, 30 May 2024
- Pawnless chess endgame (redirect from Queen versus rook)king and rook versus king, and queen versus rook. Other cases that occur occasionally are (1) a rook and minor piece versus a rook and (2) a rook versus...60 KB (6,872 words) - 02:25, 8 July 2024
- Rook is a trick-taking game, usually played with a specialized deck of cards. Sometimes referred to as Christian cards or missionary cards, Rook playing...8 KB (1,113 words) - 18:02, 12 June 2024
- Bear-in-the-hole Static Rook vs Mino Opposing Rook ☖ pieces in hand: – ☗ pieces in hand: – In shogi, Bear-in-the-hole Static Rook or Anaguma Static Rook (居飛車穴熊 ibisha...4 KB (266 words) - 18:16, 11 April 2021
- Twisting Rook (ひねり飛車 hineribisha) opening strategy is characterized by first playing a Static Rook opening, which then switches to a Ranging Rook strategy...2 KB (142 words) - 21:52, 20 February 2021
- Static Rook (居飛車 ibisha) openings is one of two major opening strategies in shogi. In the opening, the major piece of the rook fights from its starting...25 KB (2,513 words) - 17:09, 10 January 2024
- Wham-Bam Rook ☖ pieces in hand: – ☗ pieces in hand: – In the Japanese strategy board game shogi, the Lady Killer Wham-Bam Rook or Lady Killer Rushing Rook (女殺しドッカン飛車...12 KB (493 words) - 16:44, 14 October 2023
- Central Rook vs Side Pawn ☖ pieces in hand: 歩 ☗ pieces in hand: 歩歩 Central Rook vs Side Pawn is an older joseki for a Central Rook position by White played...12 KB (343 words) - 00:35, 13 August 2023
- The Dead Pool (redirect from Harlan Rook)confronts Rook holding Walker hostage. The detective surrenders his .44 Magnum revolver after Rook threatens to slit her throat. Callahan lures Rook to a pier...19 KB (2,320 words) - 18:22, 9 July 2024
- Central Rook (White) ☗ pieces in hand: – ☖ pieces in hand: – In shogi, Cheerful Central Rook (ゴキゲン中飛車 gokigen nakabisha, also Gokigen Central Rook or Go-As-You-Please...25 KB (2,291 words) - 14:52, 16 May 2024
- Rook on Pawn or Vertical Pawn Picker (タテ歩取り or 縦歩取り tatefudori) is a subclass of Double Wing Attack Floating Rook (Static Rook) openings in which the Floating...11 KB (574 words) - 15:19, 13 June 2023
- Central Rook ☖ pieces in hand: – ☗ pieces in hand: – In shogi, Central Rook (中飛車 nakabisha) is a subclass of Ranging Rook openings in which the rook is positioned...23 KB (1,474 words) - 01:17, 15 April 2021
- File Rook (矢倉対右四間飛車) is a Double Static Rook opening in which one player chooses a Fortress position and their opponent uses a Right Fourth File Rook position...4 KB (188 words) - 17:06, 15 April 2021
- File Rook vs Static Rook ☖ pieces in hand: – ☗ pieces in hand: – Black (sente) is using a classic Ranging Rook position (Fourth File Rook). The rook has...20 KB (1,449 words) - 15:25, 16 July 2021
- See also: Rook and röök English Wikipedia has an article on: rook (bird) Wikipedia IPA(key): /ɹʊk/ (sometimes in Northern England; otherwise obsolete)
- Lalla Rookh (redirect from Lalla Rook)Lalla Rookh Thomas Moore 1636329Lalla RookhThomas Moore LALLA ROOKH, An Oriental Romance. BY THOMAS MOORE. LONDON: PRINTED FOR LONGMAN, HURST,
- Years, The Blackbird and the Rooks; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 677. Invite the rook who high amid the boughs, In
- of rook polynomials. Based on that animation aboves, you can see the X represent the rooks area of attack and with each successive rooks, the rooks have