Rook (chess) of a fifth daughter. Unicode defines two codepoints for rook: ♖ U+2656 White Chess Rook (HTML ♖) ♜ U+265C Black Chess Rook (HTML ♜) Rook (chess) A rook (; ♖,♜) is a piece in the strategy board game of chess. Formerly the piece (from Persian رخ "rokh"/"rukh") was called the "tower", "marquess", "rector", and "comes" . The term "castle" is considered informal, incorrect, or old-fashioned. Each player starts the game with two rooks, one on each of the corner squares on their own side of the board. The white rooks start on squares a1 and h1, while the black rooks
Marcin Kamiński (chess player) Marcin Kamiński (chess player) Marcin Kamiński (born 10 March 1977) is a Polish chess Grandmaster (1996). Marcin Kamiński learned play chess at the age of 4 years. He chess career began as a very successful junior player in the late 1980s and early 1990s. In 1989 he won World Youth Chess Championship (U12) in Aguadilla. Two years later, in Warsaw he repeated this success in the category up to 14 years. In 1993 Marcin Kamiński won the silver medal in European Youth Chess Championship. In 1994 - 1998 he participated in individual Polish Chess Championship finals. Winner of many tournaments,