| He picked up a rook and moved it forward three squares, capturing a knight, and exposing the king. |
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| But taking the knight left my rook a wide open path to move across the board and checkmate your king. |
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| Since the black queen is pinned to the black king by the white rook, the queen cannot be moved off the e-file. |
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| The Government has ruled that it is now illegal to shoot a crow, rook or pigeon for the pot without scaring it first. |
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| After a series of exchanges, he was left with 2 rooks and 6 pawns versus a rook, 2 knights and 5 pawns for Polgar. |
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| A hand silhouetted against the wall picked up a rook and moved it forward three squares, capturing a brave knight, and exposing the king. |
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| Although the check has been blocked, the rook is completely undefended and the White queen can immediately capture this valuable piece. |
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| Anand sacrificed his queen on move 22, getting a rook and knight in return. |
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| White has his rook on the seventh rank and Black's queenside pawns are very weak. |
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| Topalov gave up a rook for bishop early in his game with Bacrot, and eventually got passed pawns on the queenside for the win. |
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| White will mop up the black queenside pawns and take the rook at his leisure. |
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| When one of these sedimentary rocks is split open a carbonized fossil is sometimes exposed at the rook face.
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| Karpov sought the rook exchange and Kamsky avoided it, ultimately winning. |
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| Erial returned to the game long enough to move her rook into a position that severely threatened his queen, before continuing her train of thought. |
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| Occasionally, instead of promoting your pawn to a queen, you may wish to promote it to a rook, bishop or knight. |
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| With the rise in use of exchange sacrifices, rook versus minor piece endgames are becoming more common, and there are key defensive techniques that a player must know. |
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| Sacrificing the rook is suicidal and effectively throws away the game. |
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| This would remove the possibility of me putting her in check, but I would then be in a position to capture a rook from the right hand corner of the board. |
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| All the pieces move in straight lines like the rook or castle in chess, and a piece may be moved any number of squares providing no other piece is standing in the way. |
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| The rook is no match for two bishops despite the extra pawns. |
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| Black is opening a file on the queenside in order to activate his rook. |
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| We shall see that the rook and the bishop, like the queen, can travel from one end of the board to another in a single move. |
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| The crow's caw is much more harsh and resonant than that of the rook. |
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| Black still has the pin against the undefended rook on h1, so it becomes a question of whether Black can defend his knight more times than White can attack it. |
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| Once the computer knows that you are castling, it will remind you to make the second half of the castling move with your rook. |
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| White has 3 possible moves: he can move his king into the corner, place his knight in front of the king, or capture the rook with his queen. |
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| One of the rook colonies was situated on a water purification plant, one at a garbage station and others close to town dwellings. |
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| The best move of the game was when he sacrificed his rook in order to gain better possession. |
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| If you wish to castle, move your king first and then your rook. |
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| The municipality of Hillerød had the intention to cull 1,500 juvenile rooks to reduce the problem connected to vocal noise due to the breeding behaviour in the rook colonies. |
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| The directive provides that certain species, such as the rook, may be hunted in accordance with national legislation, but not during the rearing season or during the various stages of reproduction. |
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| The Commission has decided to send to the Council of Ministers a proposal to allow the following five species to be hunted in certain regions of the Community: magpie, jackdaw, rook, crow and jay. |
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| We see the frightening white queen kill a rook, which gorily spurts blood, spiking the scene's artifice. |
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| I am, like an old rook, who is ruined by gaming, forced to live on the good fortune of the pushing young men. |
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| Black's kingside rook was not developed early and once again it allowed Carlsen a small but unseen advantage. |
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| We generalize the excedance statistic on permutations to maximal nonattacking rook placements on certain rectangular boards by decomposing them into boards of staircase shape. |
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| In a discovered check, he won a rook and progressed to a mating attack. |
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| The chesspiece called a rook is also known by which other name? |
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| Honey mishit a shot, but it fell perfectly for substitute Carl Rook, who hammered the ball home from close range. |
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| All the twos, threes and fours are removed from the deck, leaving 45 cards including the Rook card. |
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| If you intend to check the enemy King, try to put as much distance between your Rook and his King as possible. |
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| Instead of capturing a Rook, Black puts a Bishop en prise, with check, on an unguarded square. |
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| If the single piece happens to be Queen or Rook, the weaker party becomes all too powerful. |
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| As the immunologist Graham Rook is fond of saying, co-evolution invariably leads to codependence. |
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| The Chough is an elegant member of the crow family, a little smaller than a Rook and distinguished by a bright red, slightly decurved bill and red legs and feet. |
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| The idea is to use the Rook to shelter its King from upcoming checks. |
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