Why is a castle called a rook?

Mr H. J. R. Murray must have had a sunstroke or something. The legendary rukh bird is the obvious explanation, not a chariot.

So Ben Finegold can sing, "The rook, the rook, the rook is on fire!!"

It is actually a tower, it clearly looks like a tower.

It gets its name from an old word "roche" meaning "rock." Since castles were often built on rocky outcrops or resembled fortresses, they got associated with the rook piece, base on google bro

It's actually called a ro-ok because it has the castle move in it's name.

This is just false. The rook was (and is) many different things in different countries and cultures. One of them is probably a chariot. Also elephant, mythical giant bird, bastion and other things.

As I said, it was (and is) called different things in different countries. This is obvoiusly true.

Even in India, it was sometimes a boat. This practice spread outside India. Sometimes the boat was what we now use as a rook, and there is a line of argument that traces the word rook to a word for boat. Sometimes the boat was what is now our bishop.

The variability of chess pieces through time and across space is staggering in its variety. A few snippets from the web with facile connections will never do it justice.

Image from Donald M. Liddell, Chessmen (1937).

You’ve made a lot of references to oral history, but have so far failed to show the ability to critically assess such material. Perhaps you could take a lesson from Alice Roberts. This paragraph is from her book on the Celts.

Your ignorance is both broad and deep. You cannot even process what you wrote two days ago when you accurately described the Bible and Greek classics as rooted in oral history.

Orature (the term I prefer) has plenty of material. Texts, such as those Alice Roberts mentions, or Homer and the Bible, I call artifacts of orature. In contrast, stories told by and among my Nimiipuu friends are orature. This orature goes back centuries and is maintained today. The “telephone” game completely misses how communities pass on their stories because it assumes, incorrectly, that transmission is one-to-one, which of course allows many errors. Oral societies are communal. One-to-one transmission is not how they pass on their orature from one generation to the next.

Why is a Rook called a Castle?

Again. You, quite clearly, know little to nothing about the subject. I could recommend some books, but I don’t have any reason to believe you read.

For others, some texts that help establish the foundation other scholars of orature build upon:

Jan Vansina, Jan (1961), Oral Tradition. A Study in Historical Methodology (1961).

Walter Ong, Orality and Literacy: the Technologizing of the Word (1982).

Most of it.

Your posts are a clear expression of Brandolini’s law. The quantity piles up as in a pasture. There is not enough time to address the faulty claims in detail.

Your arguments, such as they are, offer facile connections with neither clear logic nor any consideration of alternative, and usually less strained explanations. That’s why I usually ignore you, as do nearly everyone else who posts in the forums. 

Clearly, the OP gave up on this query long ago. Perhaps it is time for me to move on as well.

I’ve already done so several times. Read the thread.

Is it possible that long-quach is not a human, but a chatbot like ChatGPT? The style is similar: lot of loosely related stuff gathered into a non-logical pile of nonsense.

ziryab: "telephone assumes one on one, wrong"

quach: "no, youre wrong, its a game of faulty transmission"

tackle the base of the issue

@Batgirl left this site when the priorities of management marginalized her voice. Now, she posts on Facebook, where many of the best writers and teachers and other chess professionals engage her work.
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What she posted here when the thread was new is well-attested in the best sources. Your "correction" also has merit, except that it fails to stand as a correction. Unlike @Batgirl, you have no comprehension of the historical documents that support both contentions.

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Liddell, whom I referenced earlier this morning, makes the point that in the extant ancient chaturanga sets, boats seem most common along coastal areas (he mentions Bengal specifically), while chariots are more common inland. Liddell specifically connects the variance of the chess pieces to geography.
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Geography explains many things. For instance, an ancient myth on origins from the Levant mentions the separation of light and darkness as creating day and night. Contrast this myth with one known by the Inuit--the separation of light from darkness creates summer and winter.

What do you know of the Inuit myth? The comparison was the point. The Hebrew myth expresses truth that is geographically specific. So does the Inuit myth.