A piece used in the Shatranj. The ancestor of the rook.
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Quotes of the Day
When I saw MVL’s position, it is like a football match where you’re 3:0 down, with two minutes to go and you’re down to 10 men!
Lev Aronian 2016
Peter Svidler clearly needs to be more ambitious and take more risk. 12 draws out of 14 games, I mean, come on, that’s not a Champion’s attitude there!
Anish Giri
Petrosian would never have beaten me if he had played like that in 1963.
Mikhail Botvinnik 1966
Time trouble is blunder time.
Alexander Kotov
As a rule, pawn endings have a forced character, and they can be worked out conclusively.
Mark Dvoretsky
