Pronunciation of rook

Pronunciation of the English word rook.

Pronounce rook in English

rook in a 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.

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