• @[email protected]
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    810 days ago

    I wonder what the initial idea behind the rook was.

    Was it always a literal tower that just squashed you?

    • @PugJesusOP
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      1710 days 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.

    • @ziggurat
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      710 days ago

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