First File Rook ☖ pieces in hand: – ☗ pieces in hand: – In shogi, First File Rook (一間飛車 ikkenbisha or ichigenbisha) is a Static Rook surprise opening in...

on the file. If one file is particularly important, a player might advance one rook on it, then position the other rook behind—doubling the rooks. Having...

shogi, Fourth File Rook (四間飛車 shikenbisha) is a class of Ranging Rook openings in which the rook is initially positioned on the fourth file if played by...

are Sleeve Rook, Wrong Diagonal Bishop, Right Fourth File Rook, and the Ranging Rook openings – Central Rook, Fourth File Rook, Third File Rook, and Opposing...

shogi, Third File Rook (三間飛車 sangenbisha or sankenbisha) is a class of Ranging Rook openings in which the rook is positioned on the third file if played...

file can provide a line of attack for a rook or queen. Having rooks or queens on open files or half-open files is considered advantageous, as it allows...

File Rook's basic position ☖ pieces in hand: – ☗ pieces in hand: – In shogi, Yōryū Fourth File Rook (耀龍四間飛車 yōryū shikenbisha) is a Fourth File Rook (Ranging...

Tateishi Fourth File Rook ☖ pieces in hand: – ☗ pieces in hand: – Tateishi Fourth File Rook (立石流四間飛車 tateishi-ryū shikenbisha) is a Fourth File Rook strategy...

Fourth File Rook (角交換四間飛車 kaku kōkan shikenbisha) or Open Bishop Diagonal Fourth File Rook (角道オープン四間飛車 kaku michi ōpun shikenbisha) is a Fourth File Rook (Ranging...

The rook and pawn versus rook endgame is a fundamentally important, widely studied chess endgame. Precise play is usually required in these positions...

File Rook vs Static Rook ☖ pieces in hand: – ☗ pieces in hand: – Black (sente) is using a classic Ranging Rook position (Fourth File Rook). The rook has...

position in chess endgame theory where one side has a rook and a pawn and the defender has a rook. Karsten Müller said that it may be the most important...

Fourth File Rook formation ☖ pieces in hand: – ☗ pieces in hand: – In shogi, Right Fourth File Rook (右四間飛車 migi shikenbisha) is a Static Rook opening...

Ranging Rook or Swinging Rook (振り飛車 furibisha). Compared with Ranging Rook, leaving the rook in its starting position on the 2nd file (8th file for Gote)...

Sleeve Rook ☖ pieces in hand: – ☗ pieces in hand: – In shogi, Sleeve Rook (袖飛車 sodebisha, also translated as Right Third File Rook, Sideways Rook or Sidestepped...

rook on the same rank and then moving the rook to the square that the king passed over. Castling is permitted only if neither the king nor the rook has...

System vs Static Rook ☖ pieces in hand: – ☗ pieces in hand: – In shogi, the Fujii System (藤井システム fujii shisutemu) is a set of Fourth File Rook strategies used...

Alekhine vs. Capablanca, game 34, 1927 In the first diagram, White's rook is behind his passed pawn on the a-file, and the position is won for White. The winning...

Opposing Rook ☖ pieces in hand: – ☗ pieces in hand: – In shogi, Opposing Rook (向かい飛車 mukaibisha, also Opposite Rook, Second File Rook) is a class of Ranging...

Ranging Rook (陽動振り飛車 yōdōfuribisha) is a Ranging Rook opening in which the player first gives the impression that they are playing a Static Rook position...

rook to treat a half-open file as if it were an open file, or a closed file as if it were half-open. rook pawn Or rook's pawn. A pawn on the rook's file...

The rook and bishop versus rook endgame is a chess endgame where one player has just a king, a rook, and a bishop, and the other player has just a king...

combinatorial mathematics, a rook polynomial is a generating polynomial of the number of ways to place non-attacking rooks on a board that looks like a...

is often arrived at by first sacrificing a rook on the h-file, then checking the king with the queen on the a-file or h-file, and then moving in for...

versus rook endgame is a chess endgame where one player has just their king and their queen, and the other player has just their king and a rook. As no...

the fifth (central) file. However, since the central file can be thought of as the dividing line between Ranging Rook and Static Rook positions, it is also...

Ranging Rook opening like Fourth File Rook, then White often uses a Mino (or related) castle on their right side of the board. A Fourth File Rook opening...

and rooks on the kingside, being worth more: centre (d/e-file) pawn = 1.5 a/h-file pawn = 0.5 c-file bishop = 3.5 f-file bishop = 3.75 a-file rook = 4...

Central Rook ☖ pieces in hand: – ☗ pieces in hand: – vs an Ishida (Third File Rook) opponent with a High Mino castle. Left Bear-in-the-hole Central Rook (中飛車左穴熊...

both black rooks could legally move to f8, so the move of the d8-rook to f8 is disambiguated as Rdf8. For the white rooks on the a-file which could both...