rook
யானைக்குப்
definition
verb
And they were convinced they'd rooked us… Yeah, the perfect business deal.
take money from (someone) by cheating, defrauding, or overcharging them.
noun
Birds - blackbirds and thrushes, robins, starlings, rooks and crows, jays, ducks, seagulls and owls will eat slugs.
a gregarious Eurasian crow with black plumage and a bare face, nesting in colonies in treetops.
With the rise in use of exchange sacrifices, rook versus minor piece endgames are becoming more common, and there are key defensive techniques that a player must know.
a chess piece, typically with its top in the shape of a battlement, that can move in any direction along a rank or file on which it stands. Each player starts the game with two rooks at opposite ends of the first rank.
translation of 'rook '
ஒரு வகைக் காகம்
example
Chess has six types of pieces (pawn, 'rook' , knight, bishop, queen and king) each with individual parameters that govern movement.
David got revenge for this by moving his right 'rook' seven spaces forward, taking Floyd's pawn.
For example, thinking that trading a 'rook' and pawn for a bishop and knight is usually an equal trade.
If she moved the 'rook' instead, I would capture a pawn, and place her king in check.
Just then, I noticed something on the board, moved my 'rook' and declared, ‘Checkmate!’
Erial returned to the game long enough to move her 'rook' into a position that severely threatened his queen, before continuing her train of thought.
All the pieces move in straight lines like the 'rook' or castle in chess, and a piece may be moved any number of squares providing no other piece is standing in the way.
A hand silhouetted against the wall picked up a 'rook' and moved it forward three squares, capturing a brave knight, and exposing the king.
So as a rule, kings should advance and roam the board in the opening, and a 'rook' should get behind a passed pawn in the middlegame?
With the rise in use of exchange sacrifices, 'rook' versus minor piece endgames are becoming more common, and there are key defensive techniques that a player must know.
He once said: ‘If we were to apply the Sermon on the Mount to our business, we would be 'rooked' within six months.’
But once the chess game ended, the great powers lost interest in the 'rooks' and pawns.
‘And I got 'rooked' into being his companion,’ grumbled Pip.
Birds - blackbirds and thrushes, robins, starlings, 'rooks' and crows, jays, ducks, seagulls and owls will eat slugs.
But white blundered away a pawn when 'rooks' were exchanged, then had to sack his bishop to stop a passed pawn.
We found the broken bodies of infant 'rooks' fallen from the nests all along the towers while the walls resounded with the echoes of those who had not fallen but grown to noisy maturity.
This gives an empty row between the pawns and the main pieces that the 'rooks' can move into, supporting each other; the other pieces can develop more easily, too.
In the even rarer case of two 'rooks' vs. three minor pieces, the limited statistics give the minor pieces a slight edge provided they include the bishop pair, which they usually do.
I told her that I'd be back tomorrow and so I went back after chores today with some stuff, and she must have 'rooked' in 30 or 40 people in the couple of hours I was there.
Thrushes sing in the green shrubbery; 'rooks' caw in the elms.
Crows belong to the family of corvids, which also includes 'rooks' , jays, ravens and jackdaws.
And they were convinced they'd 'rooked' us… Yeah, the perfect business deal.
People often write in about the conventional terms for groups of animals and people, especially birds, such as parliament of 'rooks' or murder of crows.
Outside the city walls, the fields would have supported birds such as starlings, 'rooks' and crows, just as you can see today but in greater abundance.
I turned my head to see a flock of crows and 'rooks' burst out from the highest trees and fly overhead.
I started to notice that I was getting 'rooked' by the sites about a year ago.
It was littered with only a few pieces, my king, queen, two 'rooks' and pawn my remaining pieces.
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