A piece used in the Shatranj. The ancestor of the rook.
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Quotes of the Day
What’s been bothering me is not that I haven’t won tournaments, but that I haven’t played very well.
Magnus Carlsen 2017
” Kasparov was like Samson, but his hair has been shorn (2000).”
Nathan Divinsky
It’s always more difficult to hold the title than to get it.
Vladimir Akopian 2012
” Oh, those exclamation points! How they erode the innocent soul of the amateur, removing all hope of allowing him to examine another player’s ideas critically!”
Tigran Petrosian
Chess is a scientific game and its literature ought to be placed on the basis of the strictest truthfulness, which is the foundation of all scientific research.
W. Steinitz
