We found 18 examples of how to use rook in an English sentence.
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| 1. | White: rook on a1, pawn on b6, king on c8. Black: pawns on a7 and b7, king on a8, bishop on b8. White puts the opponent in zugzwang by playing the rook to a6, after which Black has only two options: take the rook on a6 or move his bishop to any other square on the diagonal b8-h2. In the first case, White advances his pawn from b6 to b7 and checkmates. In the second situation, the white rook takes the black pawn on a7, with the same result. | |
| 2. | The king usually moves to any square next to his. But in chess there is a special move called castling, which can be done in two different ways, depending on the situation. In the first case, relating white, the king goes from e1 to g1 and the rook comes from h1 to f1. It's the short castling. In the second case, and still dealing with white, the king goes from e1 to c1 and the rook comes from a1 to d1. It's the long castling. This is the only time when two pieces are displaced in the same move. | |
| 3. | A rook is a chess piece. | |
| 4. | The word "rook" comes from Sanskrit and means "chariot". | |
| 5. | To the crow family belong the raven, the rook and the magpie. | |
| 6. | It's not a raven, a crow, nor a magpie. It's a rook. | |
| 7. | The chess pieces are pawn, knight, bishop, rook, queen, and king. | |
| 8. | In castling, the king as well as a rook is moved. | |
| 9. | In chess, castling may only be carried out when both the king and the involved rook have not been moved, all the squares between them are free and not dominated by any opposing piece and the king is not in check and would not be put in check by castling. | |
| 10. | The chess pieces are: king, queen, bishop, knight, rook and pawn. | |
| 11. | Can a rook in chess attack in a forward direction? | |
| 12. | Tom sacrificed his rook to avoid mate. | |
| 13. | The queen is the most powerful piece. Second to the queen is the rook. The bishop and the knight have approximately the same value. The pawn has the lowest relative value. | |
| 14. | If you play chess, you know that a pawn can earn the right to become a bishop, a knight, a rook or a queen. | |
| 15. | Supported by a rook, the pawn advanced to the end of the field, deciding the match. | |
| 16. | The queen has the ability to move as much as if she were a rook, that is, over the rows and columns, as if she were a bishop, that is, over the diagonals. | |
| 17. | Judit took the rook and led it to a7, but just before releasing it she changed her mind and left it at a3. | |
| 18. | Is the rook that important when playing chess? |