If a queen, a king, a knight, a bishop, and a pawn are people, what is a rook?

Is a rook a person?

Wait, knights are "people"? Incredible discovery.

I went with, “If.”

Well, if all the other five characters are "people", then rooks are probably "people" too.

How about the cannons and the "shi" (that piece next to the king to defend the king)?

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Where do kings, queens, and their guards live?

In a ______!

in a castle

A bird?

I hereby ascertain that the rook is a primitive form of a modern tank. There is a cannon in Chinese chess, and so the person associated with a rook would be a "bombardier". Or, another way to look at it if you want to use chariot is that it is similar in scope to a knight. They would be like the person on a chariot shooting or the person today shooting inside a tank.

They are all people. back in the day a rook or castle was actually called a marquess. this is a title for those who are more so figures of inherent power from their lineage without actuated politcal influence but historically had inherited substantial wealth and land from their forefathers. This granted them inherent privilege's in a state along with the ability to influence the actions of the state simply due to their physical control of land and/or wealth. They also have the threat of recalling old patriotic ties of their forefathers to take action against the reigning state if their liberties were threaten by the actions of those who reign. Think of the fall of Caesar by the hands of the senators who symbolically all stabbed him to unite as one against his growing power of tyrannous reign controlling the states resources through his loyal military forces that muted the vocations of the other reigning families exuding their powers through the senate. Those families and senetors that assassinated Ceasar are the rooks. They are the powers behind influencing states actions through influence instead of direct action.

Other examples being the Medici family, Rothchilds, the Koch brothers in the US today, the Tudors of england etc. 

But when I look up "marquess" it doesn't show the person is a fighter, just a leader.

There is no knight, only a horse.

It`s called a HORSE.

If the designers of Chess pieces wanted them to represent cannons , etc., wouldn’t every ordinary Joe like me get a bit confused because they look like castles ... Ya know, where kings live?  Maybe it’s the same as kids today believing protesting is gainful employment.