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The rook in question certainly wasn't the first chess piece ever created, but it may be the oldest found to date. John Peter Oleson Almost 30 years after its discovery, a small sandstone figurine ...

The skewered white king runs to e2 or f2 and black’s rook snatches white’s rook on h1. Black’s loss of the rook on d5 has been replaced and black has won a pawn. After black’s rook takes ...

Grandmasters Javokhir Sindarov of Uzbekistan and Wei Yi of China secured their spots in the FIDE World Cup 2025 finals after winning their respective semifinals through tiebreaks on Sunday, also ...