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The Queen is usually reckoned equal, in average situations, to two Rooks and a Pawn, but towards the end of a game she is hardly so valuable as two Rooks. -- Howard Staunton
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
Unlike most great talkers, the rooks are good workers, too. -- Flora Thompson
Knights are cavalry, bishops are archers, rooks are cannons and queens are wizards. -- Jacob Aagaard
The retreat of a minor piece to the back rank, where it cuts the lines of communication between the rooks, is permissable only in exceptional cases. -- Alexander Alekhine
As to people saying a few idle words about us, we must not mind that, any more than the old church steeple minds the rooks cawing about it. -- George Eliot
Over the land freckled with snow half-thawed The speculating rooks at their nests cawed And saw from elm tops, delicate as flower of grass, What we below could not see, Winter pass. -- Edward Thomas
If once a man delays castling and his king remains in the center, files will open up against him, bishops sweep the board, rooks will dominate the seventh rank, and pawns turn into queens. -- Irving Chernev

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