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Quotes About Rook

A Rook is of the value of five Pawns and a fraction, and may be exchanged for a minor Piece and two Pawns. Two Rooks may be exchanged for three minor Pieces.
~ Howard Staunton
As Olafsson showed me, White can win... It's hard to believe. I stayed up all night analysing, finally convicing myself, and, incidentally, learning a lot about Rook and Pawn endings in the process.
~ Bobby Fischer
Sometimes, all company forsaking, They settle to a game of chess And, leaning on a table, guess What move the other may be making, And Lensky with a dreamy look, Allows his pawn to take his rook.
~ Alexander Pushkin
The people who create strain & stress for the population play life as a chess and they could be seen talking of making moves like queen, rook, bishop, knight and others.
~ Anuj Somany
In Castling, the King must be moved first, or before the Rook is quitted. If the Rook be quitted before the King is touched, the opposing player may demand that the move of the Rook shall stand without the Castling being completed.
~ Howard Staunton
With Truth, Reason, and Morality off the board, we then capture their last Rook —that prissy little virtue, Temperance— for she depends on those other three for her beauty and was thus left wholly undefended.
~ Geoffrey Wood
Hugh got up. Would love to stay and play doctor, love, but duty calls. He headed for the door. Play doctor? Jackass. Harpy. Thank you for saving me in the woods, she said to his back. And for healing Alex. You're welcome. I'll see you downstairs in ten minutes. A moment later Rook slipped into her room and held out his writing pad. Hugh needed help? No, Elara said. He was terrifying.
~ Ilona Andrews
I can and do dislike him intensely when he pins my king and a rook with his lurking knight,' said Stephen
~ Patrick O'Brian
Suddenly I saw the cold and rook-delighting heaven That seemed as though ice burned and was but the more ice
~ W. B. Yeats
The rook is my favorite piece.' she said. 'It's the one you think you don't have to watch out for. It is straightforward. You keep your eyes on the queen, and the knight and the bishop, because they are the sneaky ones. But is the rook that often gets you. The straightforward is never quite what it seems.
~ Matt Haig