18 example sentences using rook.
Rook used in a sentence
Rook in a sentence as a noun
It rook me ages to find and I've been using this site for a long time.
Seriously, if you can rook 'em in some way that can't blow back, go for it.
K = king, R = rook The question is... does the rook R still provide attack/check even though it is pinned by rook r to King K?
Trying to debug during a demo is a rook move, but I did it anyway. He got agitated, and said something to the effect of "I think I've figured it out...
A rook makes her presence known to me unobtrusively every morning as I walk into work, and in return I leave some of my scone behind where she will find it. She is then joined by two other birds.
Third, at this level especially it's absurd to continue playing a rook down with no compensation.
Com/boardgame/1260/rook Which is basically a standard deck of cards but with four colors for four suits, and numbered from 1-14. Just getting rid of the standard symbols is enough for people to pretend that they can't gamble with them.
The opposing rook would not be allowed to capture it, because they would be putting their own king in check. If one thinks about chess as if the goal were to capture the opponent's king before one's own king is captured, this makes perfect sense.
The fact that I have "solved" it after recapturing my rook seems arbitrary. Out of the half dozen tactics I played through in my first visit, I had a couple other questionable ones like this.
Rook in a sentence as a verb
But beat it quite solidly opening up the f-file and hitting f7 with the queen and rook. Second game I decided to avoid opening theory and head into a King's Indian Attack.
It gives the human an *** kicking, then a brief moment of hope, and then teaches the human that even if the engine gives him rook odds or more it will still destroy him. Shredder's lower levels seem to me to actually play pretty much like humans of that level.
His anxiety over Deep Blue’s forty-fourth move in the first game—the move in which the computer had moved its rook for no apparent purpose. Kasparov had concluded that the counterintuitive play must be a sign of superior intelligence.
The minor pieces are often distant and the rooks and pawns get in the way of everything. This isn't just familiarity speaking; in real chess rook-and-pawn positions with inactive minor pieces are considered extremely boring.
Org/wiki/Endgame_tablebase 2: All of which are already in the tablebase by definition, because you can't add to the number of pieces on the chess board 3: For example, if I can calculate a position to where I have a rook and a king and you only have a king, I don't have to think any further, I know this is a win for me. 4: ~1300 rating
I remember that incident as well; it was the next game after the random rook move and Kasparov was already unsettled about the computer's capabilities. By my memory, it went like this: In a complicated midgame, Kasparov moved a pawn to a square under attack.
A middlegame position with white's king on e3, supplemented with a knight on f1, a rook on e2 a queen on g3 and in particular a black king sitting between squares, but maybe on e5, while not illegal is so unlikely as to hurt a chess player's eyes. This is a common meme actually; People who use chess graphics in advertisements, TV, films, photo shoots etc.
Once you get a reputation for playing out positions more than a rook down, you may have a harder time getting tournament invitations, sponsors, collaborators, etc. If you're an amateur, soon even your friends won't want to play you.
Back to the problem, if it's of any help to you, I came up with the answer by noting that I need to move my knight out of the way to get my black bishop active and onto those juicy squares defended by my pawns, and to get my white bishop out of the way to open the file for my linked up queen and rook, and also that his queen is threatening my undefended pawn so I looked to get my bishop onto that diagonal as a defender. This position is a good example of a number of core concepts, for example that the bishops because they are on diagonals coordinate a little better with the other pieces when they are on the flanks of the attack rather than in the middle where they can clog, and that the rooks and queen benefit from open files, and that knights are useful when the position is somewhat clogged but frequently they should be exchanged for a more advantageous opening of the position.
Rook definitions
(chess) the piece that can move any number of unoccupied squares in a direction parallel to the sides of the chessboard
See also: castle
common gregarious Old World bird about the size and color of the American crow
deprive of by deceit; "He swindled me out of my inheritance"; "She defrauded the customers who trusted her"; "the cashier gypped me when he gave me too little change"