Rook (chess)

The rook (♖, ♜) is a piece in the game of chess. It may move any number of squares horizontally or vertically without jumping, and it may capture an enemy piece on its path; it may participate in castling. Each player starts the game with two rooks, one in each corner on their side of the board.

The chess rook

Quotes

• The Rooks are reason on both sides,
    Which keep the corner-houses still,
  And warily stand to watch their tides,
    By secret art to work their will,
      To take sometime a thief unseen
      Might mischief mean to King or Queen.
  • Nicholas Breton, "The Chess Play" (1593), The Rooks