Rook (chess) 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 start on a8 and h8. The rook moves horizontally or vertically, through any number of unoccupied squares (see diagram). As with captures by other
Kung-Fu Chess This was absent in Kung Fu Chess which offered only online play. However this project does not supports the many variants developed by Shizmoo. A public beta of a new turnless chess game JebChess was released in June 2014. Both 2 and 4 player chess modes, including flexible teams, are available on this game. JebChess is the first real-time chess game to be built using a 3D game engine (Unity3D). In September 2014 JudoChess was released. The game runs on Silverlight and can not be played on Chrome, but can be played on Internet Explorer and FireFox. JudoChess currently features