Sentence examples for a rook in from inspiring English sources

He was pleased with the way that he had sacrificed a knight, and then a rook, in order to gain a position.

Polugaevsky resigned after 36... Rbecauseuse he was going to have to trade queens, after which he would have simply been down a rook in an endgame, and he would have had absolutely no compensation for his material deficit.

If he had played 38 Kg1, then 38... Qg5 would have forced a trade of queens, the attack would have been over, and he would have been down a rook in material.

The queen combines the power of a bishop and a rook in one piece.

Pieces can move like normal Rooks can do "Drive Bye's", EX: if a rook is in front of a line of pawns, or other stuff, than the rook can wipe out all of those pieces within one square of it.

Mr. Bird knew of a 1980s study in which a rook plugged a hole in its aviary to allow a pool of water to form.

White's 28 Rf4 was a blunder, losing a rook for bishop in a bad position, so Domínguez gave up.

The combination that Hort then used to win a rook is often included in books of tactical problems.

Spassky defended well, and after a tactical flurry in the endgame, ended up with the nominal advantage of an extra pawn in a rook ending known to be an easy book draw.

So Fressinet forlornly dropped a rook with 48... Rgg5 49 Ng5 Rg5, found himself in an awful endgame, and soon gave up.

The word "hedge" began its life in economics as a term for setting limits on a bet, and showed up in that sense in the prologue to the Duke of Buckingham's 1671 play "The Rehearsal," a parody of the Restoration fashion for heroic moralistic drama: "Now, Critiques do your worst, that here are met; / For, like a Rook, I have hedg'd in my Bet".