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[-] [email protected] 31 points 7 months ago

The title says it all. The rook is...indeed a highly mobile stone tower.

Like, I'm just imagining facing off another army, and in the distancr I see a 4 storey tower grinding through the earth at 80 km/h towards us.

[-] [email protected] 15 points 7 months ago
[-] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

I think that would land you in prison sadly

[-] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

You: Resigning on the spot. The Whole Ass Prison: Very quickly approaching your location.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

I'd just make sure I was on the team capable of moving around stone towers.

Seems like they're going to win a lot.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago

I wonder what the initial idea behind the rook was.

Was it always a literal tower that just squashed you?

[-] [email protected] 19 points 7 months ago

The original Indian form was a chariot, while the modern piece started as a war elephant with a tower and eventually was just reduced to a tower.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago

I'm not sure, but I think it is a chariot

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