EXCHANGE

The trading of a minor piece (bishop or knight) for a rook. To sacrifice the exchange is to trade the rook for the minor piece.

16. “By all means examine the games of the great chess players, but don’t swallow them whole. Their games are valuable not for their separate moves, but for their vision of chess, their way of thinking. Anatoly Karpov
In the past twenty years Kramnik has played a few thousand games, and if you show me a position from one of them, in 90 percent of the time I will be able to tell you which game it is from. Vishy Anand
2008
To Put It Mildly, I Have Not a Bit of Respect For Topalov Vladimir Kramnik
2015
” Kasparov was like Samson, but his hair has been shorn (2000).” Nathan Divinsky
This one hour allows me to put the problem into the background and then, when I come back, I am much more rational and less emotional about the particular problem and I can think better about it. G. Borg
2016

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