Tag: Rook
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Of Strategizing, Pawns and Plotting…
Playing the game of chess demands that individuals strategize their moves. To accomplish this each player must think ahead, considering what character or pieces they can move upon the chessboard, and to what square, empty or filled by one the opponent’s characters, and then the various moves their opponent can make in response.
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Of Bishops, Kindreds Spirits and the Dawning of Awareness…
The Bishop in chess moves diagonally along the squares of the chessboard until it encounters another playing piece. The various directions in which the Bishop can move create a cross upon the chess board. Less powerful than the Queen or Rook, one Bishop equals the strength of a Knight or 3 Pawns. Like the Rook,…
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Of Towers, Castles and the Battles Writers Wage…
The Rook, Tower or Castle in the game of chess speaks to boundaries. Towers and Castles of the medieval era served not simply as homes, but also places of protection, that place to which rulers, those of their court, and the soldiers guarding them retreated and from which they waged battle. The Tower provided a…
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Of Rooks, Guardians of the Threshold and Boundaries…
The chess piece or character known as The Rook, which is also called The Castle or as I like to say, The Tower can move as many spaces along a row or column on the chessboard. The Rooks (each player has 2) combined with The Queen, form the major chess pieces. In this way they…
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Of Pawns, Rooks, Knights and Bishops…
This weekend I played my first game of chess. My eldest now 23 learned the game from my husband. Like the cello, I have always admired people who played chess. It truly is a game of thought, forethought and reasoning. Unlike the game of checkers that I learned as a child and play with my…