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A castellated tower, standing for the rook.
Also known as: Castle
The rook is drawn as a squat tower with battlements. It moves any distance along ranks and files, and takes part in castling. Written R in algebraic notation.
Denotes the rook, written R in FIDE algebraic notation. The rook moves any number of vacant squares along a rank or file.
Encoded at U+2656 in the Unicode Miscellaneous Symbols block.
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Commonly called a castle in casual play, though no rulebook uses that name. The word rook derives from the Persian rukh, and the tower shape is a later European reinterpretation.
A short cylindrical tower, its top edge cut into a row of square battlements with a gap between each.
Both belong to the six-piece set, and both move in castling.