Set on a chess board, Defend The Rook is all about protecting the Rook "at all costs" — it's the tower in the tower defense — and you'll be able to cast spells, place traps, and lay down ...

Chess coach Daniel Greiner presents the Samuel Bowden trick, where sacrificing a rook leads directly to checkmate.

(The word "rook" comes from "rukh," the Persian word for chariot.) If the tiny sandstone figure Oleson excavated is indeed a rook, it may be the single oldest chess piece ever discovered, dating ...

The rook in question certainly wasn't the first chess piece ever created, but it may be the oldest found to date. John Peter Oleson Almost 30 years after its discovery, a small sandstone figurine ...