Rook (chess)

Quality:

Rook - chess piece. Article “Rook (chess)” in Simple English Wikipedia has 21.7 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 1 references and 3 sections.

This article has the best quality in Portuguese Wikipedia. However, the most popular language version of this article is English.

In June 2026 the article “Rook (chess)” was edited by 1 authors in Simple English Wikipedia (3734^th place) and written by 7 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Rook (chess)”, its content was written by 15 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 1375 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 63 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 4134 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #736 in August 2024
• Global: #772 in March 2001

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #1382 in June 2023
• Global: #21966 in December 2020

There are 53 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2026 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	Portuguese (pt) Torre (xadrez)		63.511
2	English (en) Rook (chess)		63.3182
3	Arabic (ar) رخ (شطرنج)		51.5402
4	Spanish (es) Torre (ajedrez)		50.6334
5	Persian (fa) رخ (شطرنج)		46.7585
6	Catalan (ca) Torre (escacs)		42.7752
7	French (fr) Tour (échecs)		41.0468
8	Tamil (ta) கோட்டை (சதுரங்கக் காய்)		39.5882
9	Latin (la) Turris (scacci)		33.3148
10	Uzbek (uz) Rux (shaxmat)		32.1496

The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Rook (chess)		4 081 988
2	Japanese (ja) ルーク		1 008 562
3	Spanish (es) Torre (ajedrez)		890 148
4	Russian (ru) Ладья (шахматы)		859 936
5	German (de) Turm (Schach)		215 471
6	Portuguese (pt) Torre (xadrez)		210 038
7	Persian (fa) رخ (شطرنج)		152 658
8	French (fr) Tour (échecs)		150 214
9	Polish (pl) Wieża (szachy)		142 025
10	Italian (it) Torre (scacchi)		127 632

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Rook (chess)		12 229
2	Japanese (ja) ルーク		2 198
3	Russian (ru) Ладья (шахматы)		2 114
4	Spanish (es) Torre (ajedrez)		647
5	Persian (fa) رخ (شطرنج)		530
6	German (de) Turm (Schach)		519
7	French (fr) Tour (échecs)		434
8	Chinese (zh) 車 (國際象棋)		404
9	Vietnamese (vi) Xe (cờ vua)		325
10	Polish (pl) Wieża (szachy)		282

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Rook (chess)		274
2	German (de) Turm (Schach)		97
3	Russian (ru) Ладья (шахматы)		73
4	Italian (it) Torre (scacchi)		66
5	French (fr) Tour (échecs)		62
6	Dutch (nl) Toren (schaken)		58
7	Spanish (es) Torre (ajedrez)		55
8	Portuguese (pt) Torre (xadrez)		43
9	Japanese (ja) ルーク		38
10	Danish (da) Tårn (skak)		35

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Finnish (fi) Torni (shakki)		2
2	Arabic (ar) رخ (شطرنج)		1
3	German (de) Turm (Schach)		1
4	Basque (eu) Gaztelu (xakea)		1
5	Serbo-Croatian (sh) Top (šah)		1
6	Simple English (simple) Rook (chess)		1
7	Azerbaijani (az) Top (şahmat)		0
8	Belarusian (be) Ладдзя (шахматы)		0
9	Bulgarian (bg) Топ (шахмат)		0
10	Catalan (ca) Torre (escacs)		0

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

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