A piece used in the Shatranj. The ancestor of the rook.
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Quotes of the Day
Everything is very concrete nowadays. The computer often gives unnatural moves which are correct, but sometimes hard to remember. You know a line is correct, but then your forget something and lose terribly.
Daniel Stellwagen 2010
As a rule, pawn endings have a forced character, and they can be worked out conclusively.
Mark Dvoretsky
One of the most important things in chess is pattern recognition: the ability to recognise typical themes and images on the board, characteristics of a position and their consequences.
Magnus Carlsen 2010
Time trouble is blunder time.
Alexander Kotov
Petrosian would never have beaten me if he had played like that in 1963.
Mikhail Botvinnik 1966
