Meanings of white rook in English

She would have been under threat by the white rook on b5.

Which piece did the white rook take on b5 then?

The first is obvious: Q x R, the black queen takes the white rook.

The white rook must have taken it on b5.

If it wasn't the white rook that moved to b5, then all your reasoning collapses.

Something that looked very much like a white rook.

Lila pulled the white rook from her pocket.

A small, white rook to be exact.

Exchanging a grave look with Munoz, Cesar said: It means that the white rook's move threatens the black queen.

So far we can only consider as a hypothesis the idea that the white rook took a black piece on b5.

When that black piece was captured by the white rook, the queen was under direct threat. He looked back at Munoz for confirmation.

A black piece on b5 was protecting the queen from the threat posed by the white rook on b6.

Or the white rook on b6... He stopped, absorbed, his mind plunged automatically into considering the various possibilities offered by the move he'd just mentioned.

Something shone near her feet, and she looked down to find the white rook on the ground, its pale surface still dotted with Kell's blood.

A gentleman in this neighbourhood had two milk- white rooks in one nest.

"It must have been the white rook," said Cesar.