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  2. Rook (chess) - Wikipedia

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    The rook cannot jump over pieces. The rook may capture an enemy piece by moving to the square on which the enemy piece stands, removing it from play. The rook also participates with the king in a special move called castling, wherein it is transferred to the square crossed by the king after the king is shifted two squares toward the rook.

  3. Chess symbols in Unicode - Wikipedia

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    Unicode 15.1 specifies a total of 110 spread across two blocks. The standard set of chess pieces—king, queen, rook, bishop, knight, or pawn, with white and black variants—were included in the block Miscellaneous Symbols. In Unicode 12.0, the Chess Symbols block (U+1FA00–U+1FA6F) was allocated for inclusion of extra chess piece ...

  4. Rules of chess - Wikipedia

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    Staunton style chess pieces. Left to right: king, rook, queen, pawn, knight, bishop. The rules of chess (also known as the laws of chess) govern the play of the game of chess. Chess is a two-player abstract strategy board game. Each player controls sixteen pieces of six types on a chessboard. Each type of piece moves in a distinct way.

  5. Versus de scachis - Wikipedia

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    Rochus or marchio ("rook" or "marquis", respectively): It can move in a straight direction as far as the player wishes. Pedes or pedites ("soldier", today's pawn): It can only move to the square in front of it and captures another piece diagonally on an adjacent square of the same color, making it the weakest piece. If it reaches the eighth row ...

  6. Rook's graph - Wikipedia

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    In graph theory, a rook's graph is an undirected graph that represents all legal moves of the rook chess piece on a chessboard.Each vertex of a rook's graph represents a square on a chessboard, and there is an edge between any two squares sharing a row (rank) or column (file), the squares that a rook can move between.

  7. Chess annotation symbols - Wikipedia

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    There are other symbols used by various chess engines and publications, such as Chess Informant and Encyclopaedia of Chess Openings, when annotating moves or describing positions. [8] Many of the symbols now have Unicode encodings, but quite a few still require a special chess font with appropriated characters.

  8. Checkmate pattern - Wikipedia

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    The triangle mate involves a queen, supported by a rook on the same file two squares away, delivering checkmate to a king that is either at the edge of the board or whose escape is blocked by a piece; the queen, rook, and king together form a triangular shape, hence the name of the mating pattern.

  9. Template:Unicode chart Chess Symbols - Wikipedia

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    Print/export Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects Wikidata item; Appearance. move to sidebar hide ... Unicode chart Chess Symbols}} ...