How to Use the Rook | Chess Video Lecture | Learn to Play Chess: From a Novice to a Fierce Competitor - Hobbies

hello this is David Sullivan for chess
NYC today we're going to talk about the
rook this is a rook each each side in a
game of chess begins with rooks in the
corners if you look at a Pat a picture
of an old castle in Europe you'll see on
the corner they have rooks and do these
little slits there'd be like guys
shooting crossbows down at enemies back
in the olden days but in chess the rook
is actually the easiest piece to learn
rooks move up down and sideways they
capture who they land on if there's a
white rook here in a black rook here and
another black rook here the white rook
can capture the black rook and the black
rook can capture back
rooks can go up they can go down they
can go sideways a rook can move as
little one square or as far as the board
allows or until it either runs into one
of its own pieces in which case it is
blocked from moving or runs into an
opponent's piece in which case he can
land on it capturing that piece if let's
say white has a rook here and black has
a rook here and black has a rook here
the white rook could move all the way
down here landing on capturing the black
rook but then this black rook moves all
the way down the board capturing the
white rook that is how we use a rook and
chest