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.
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Quotes of the Day
Magnus is playing fantastic and I play like I always play, pretty badly
Anish Giri 2017
If the FIDe elections were not decided by the votes of the delegates but by the world’s chess society as a whole, there would not even be a competition.
Anatoly Karpov NIC 2010
First of all, I am a mother, and only then a chessplayer
Ketevan Arakhamia-Grant 2009
Tal develops all his pieces in the centre and then sacrifices them somewhere.
David Bronstein
The main thing is that you’ve got to keep on studying however old you are. You can’t just rely on your capital, so you have to try and keep up, and that is a difficult task.
Nigel Short 2016