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Nepomniachtchi’s position seemed promising early on, with a strong bishop patrolling acres of space and a rook policing the a-file, the column spanning the western edge of the board.
ANOTHER DRAW IS A WIN FOR MAGNUS CARLSENOLIVER ROEDERDECEMBER 4, 2021FIVETHIRTYEIGHTClocks draining, Carlsen and Nepomniachtchi were locked in an intricate battle for space and material in the board’s southwest corner — an asymmetric skirmish, queen and bishop versus rooks and knight.
HOW THE LONGEST GAME IN WORLD CHESS CHAMPIONSHIP HISTORY WAS WONOLIVER ROEDERDECEMBER 3, 2021FIVETHIRTYEIGHTThe grandmasters agreed to a draw in the position below, with their rooks caught in an endlessly repetitive shuffle.
SOME HUMBLE SUGGESTIONS TO SAVE CHESS FROM ITSELFOLIVER ROEDERDECEMBER 1, 2021FIVETHIRTYEIGHTThe king in the top middle could be reached both by the rook one square to its right and the knight one square down and two squares to its left.
WILL RIDDLER NATION WIN GOLD IN ARCHERY?ZACH WISSNER-GROSSJULY 30, 2021FIVETHIRTYEIGHTBeryn was 'in hevy plyghte,' when he only lost a rook for nothing; Tale of Beryn, 1812.
CHAUCER'S WORKS, VOLUME 1 (OF 7) -- ROMAUNT OF THE ROSE; MINOR POEMSGEOFFREY CHAUCERThe Consul had a good rook-rifle with him; and the kavass, a Serb by nationality, was a very good shot with it.
THE CRADLE OF MANKINDW.A. WIGRAM"Hear, hear," said everybody except the crow, who hated the rook.
WOOD MAGICRICHARD JEFFERIESLuke is, doubtless, the stray rook, and a fledgeling hath flown hither from a distant country.
ROOKWOODWILLIAM HARRISON AINSWORTHHe was mounted on his old horse, Rook, and looked grim and haggard as a ghost vanishing at the crowing of the cock.
ROOKWOODWILLIAM HARRISON AINSWORTHA shadow sweeps rapidly over the grass—it is that of a rook which has flown between us and the sun.
THE HILLS AND THE VALERICHARD JEFFERIESWORDS RELATED TO ROOK
- bamboozle
- beat
- beguile
- bilk
- bleed
- bunco
- burn
- caboodle
- chisel
- con
- cozen
- crib
- cross
- deceive
- defraud
- delude
- diddle
- do
- do a number on
- double-cross
- double-deal
- dupe
- fast talk
- finagle
- fleece
- flimflam
- fudge
- give bum steer
- gouge
- gyp
- hoodwink
- hose
- jerk around
- milk
- mislead
- pull one's leg
- ream
- rip off
- rook
- rope in
- sandbag
- scam
- screw
- shaft
- short
- shuck
- skin
- snow
- stiff
- sucker
- swindle
- take
- take for a ride
- take in
- take out
- trick
- trim
- two-time
- victimize
- bleeding
- burning
- cheating
- clipping
- conning
- cozening
- defrauding
- despoiling
- flimflaming
- gouging
- hustling
- jerk around
- milking
- mulcting
- overcharging
- plucking
- rifling
- ripping off
- robbing
- rooking
- rope in
- running a game on
- selling a bill of goods
- shafting
- stripping
- swindling
- taking for a ride
- taking to the cleaners
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