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
Triangular Chess Triangular Chess Triangular Chess is a chess variant for two players invented by George R. Dekle, Sr. in 1986. The game is played on a hexagon-shaped gameboard comprising 96 triangular cells. Each player commands a full set of chess pieces in addition to three extra pawns and a "unicorn". Triangular Chess and its variation Tri-Chess were included in "World Game Review" No. 10 edited by Michael Keller. The starting setup is as shown. As in chess, White moves first and the object is checkmate. Other standard conventions apply as well, including castling, a pawn's initial two-step option, "en passant", and