Sentence examples for rook by from inspiring English sources

He should have taken the rook by playing 27 Ne8.

Once again, taking the rook by playing 30 Ne8, would have been better.

She should safely have won a bishop and two pawns for a rook by 20... Rf3 20...3 b5 20...20... 20...d1 Bf6 20...3 Nd4.

Colette Lawlor Silverdale, North Lancashire Rook by Jane Rusbridge (Bloomsbury) beautifully described the landscape of the Sussex coast, echoing with battles, buried bodies and Nora the protagonist's running shoes as she finds her own way of working through the knots of her life and those close to her.

Using the technology similar to one of its nanotech inkjet printers, HP researchers created a polymer rook by using a graphic description of the object and then "printing" it layer by layer.

Alexander wrote: "A miracle; after all the excitements – two piece sacrifices by White and the counter-sacrifice of a rook by Black – the players have reached a completely equal endgame with no chances for either side".

"I think that by rook or by crook or by providence or just dumb luck, we nominated the one guy who continually outpolls the Republican brand," said Todd Harris, a consultant who worked on Mr. McCain's campaign eight years ago and on Mr. Thompson's this year.

He should have played 28... Rhg8, with the idea of offering the exchange of rooks by 29... Ne7.

Another white advantage in this endgame is the discomfort of Black's not being able to join his rooks by castling after 8 Qd8 Kd8.

(The easiest way to distinguish crows from rooks at a distance is to count their numbers: a crow "passes its life as one of a pair isolated from neighbours by a fierce territoriality... Rooks, by contrast, live, feed, sleep, fly, display, roost, fall sick and die in the presence of their own kind". Hence the old East Anglian adage "When tha's a rook, tha's a crow; and when tha's crows, tha's rooks").

The emerging United States economy did not have the resources to build enormously expensive roads, but foreign investors who had been rooked by profiteering pirates were not about to send more money 3,000 miles across the Atlantic without some guarantee that it would be safe.