rook

Summary

rook ranks in the top 1% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (876 views/month).^[1]

Key Facts

• rook's video is recorded as Rook (chess) movements.gif^[2].
• rook's image is recorded as Chess piece - White rook.JPG^[3].
• tower is named after rook^[4].
• fortress is named after rook^[5].
• rook's GND ID is recorded as 4061257-0^[6].
• rook's Library of Congress authority ID is recorded as sh85115347^[7].
• rook's subclass of is recorded as major piece^[8].
• rook's subclass of is recorded as long-range piece^[9].
• rook's part of is recorded as chess terminology^[10].
• rook's Commons category is recorded as Chess rooks^[11].
• rook's pronunciation audio is recorded as Q137-ar.ogg^[12].
• rook's Unicode character is recorded as ♖^[13].
• rook's Unicode character is recorded as ♜^[14].
• rook's has part is recorded as black rook^[15].
• rook's has part is recorded as white rook^[16].
• rook's sport is recorded as chess^[17].
• rook's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/0cs_0^[18].
• rook's Art & Architecture Thesaurus ID is recorded as 300211219^[19].
• rook's OmegaWiki Defined Meaning is recorded as 360814^[20].
• rook's described by source is recorded as Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)^[21].
• rook's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary^[22].
• rook's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as topic/rook-chess^[23].
• rook's Stack Exchange tag is recorded as https://chess.stackexchange.com/tags/rooks^[24].
• rook's short name is recorded as {'lang': 'af', 'text': 'T'}^[25].
• rook's short name is recorded as {'lang': 'sq', 'text': 'T'}^[26].

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Works and Contributions

Things named for rook include rook's graph^[27], a mathematical chess problem^[28] and rook polynomial^[29].

Why It Matters

rook ranks in the top 1% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (876 views/month).^[1] rook has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.^[30] rook is known by 26 alternative names across languages and contexts.^[31]

Entities named for rook include rook's graph^[27], a mathematical chess problem^[28] and rook polynomial^[29].