Rook

Slides any number of squares orthogonally.

Symbol

R

Notation

WW

Value

5

Aliases

• Castle
• Chariot Chaturanga (Indian Chess) Shatranj (Persian Chess) Sittuyin (Burmese Chess)
• Gliding Swallow Taikyoku shōgi Wa shōgi
• Rook 21st Century Chess Balbo's Chess Berolina FIDEs Bird's Chess Capablanca Chess Carrera's Chess Chancellor Chess Chess Chexx Chess Chu Shōgi (Medium Shogi) Coronation Chess Courier Chess Dai Shōgi (Large Shogi) Double Chess Embassy Chess Gemini Chess Gigachess Gothic Chess Grand Chess Grant Acedrex Great Chess (Tamerlane's Chess) Great Chess Completed Grotesque Chess Halcon Hunter Chess Hoppel-Poppel Iron Guard Chess Janggi Janus Chess Judkin's Shōgi Ladorean Chess Los Alamos Chess Metamachy Chess Mini Shōgi Modern Chess Musketeer Chess Near Chess Neo-chess Okisaki Shōgi (Queen Shōgi) Omega Chess Perfect 12 Chess Rutland Chess Schoolbook Chess Seirawan Chess Semi-queen Chess Semi-queen Chess Extended Sho Shōgi (Historical Small Shogi) Shōgi (Japanese Chess) Sort of Almost Chess Taikyoku shōgi Tamerlane II The Fabulous FIDEs Tutti-frutti Chess Univers Chess Wa shōgi Wildebeest Chess Xiangqi
• Wazirrider