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rook or
rooks in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Rook or
rooks may
refer to:
Rook (bird) (Corvus frugilegus), a bird of the
corvid family Rook (chess)...
- The
rook (/rʊk/; ♖, ♜) is a
piece in the game of chess. It may move any
number of
squares horizontally or
vertically without jumping, and it may capture...
- The
rook (Corvus frugilegus) is a
member of the
family Corvidae in the p****erine
order of birds. It is
found in the Palearctic, its
range extending from...
- The
rook and pawn
versus rook endgame is a
fundamentally important,
widely studied chess endgame.
Precise play is
usually required in
these positions...
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Rook shooting was a
previously po****r
sport in the
United Kingdom, in
which young rooks were shot from tree branches,
often using purpose-built rifles...
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rook on the same rank and then
moving the
rook to the
square that the king p****ed over.
Castling is
permitted only if
neither the king nor the
rook has...
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Rook is a surname.
Notable people with the
surname include: Ada
Rook,
Canadian musician Alan
Rook (1909-1990),
editor of the 1936
issue of New Oxford...
- The
rook rifle,
originally called the
rook and
rabbit rifle, is an
obsolete English single-shot
small calibre rifle intended for
shooting small game, particularly...
- the start, each
player controls sixteen pieces: one king, one queen, two
rooks, two bishops, two knights, and
eight pawns.
White moves first, followed...
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Rook is the name of a
British rocket.
Twenty five
Rook rockets were
launched between 1959 and 1972. The
launches took
place from
Aberporth in
Wales and...
