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Subject: Re: Queen vs two rooks

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 21:48:01 04/07/02

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On April 07, 2002 at 18:29:19, Benny Antonsson wrote:

>I have implemented som kind of a bad trade funktion that recognizes if a queen
>is exchanged for two rooks. AFAIR having the two rooks is an advantage but in
>almost every case when the program has the two rooks, it ends up losing the game
>? Any ideas ?
>
>/Benny


I think that in general, the queen is as good as two rooks, contrary to
popular opinion in the general chess literature.  In some positions, with
lots of open files, the rooks are better.  But when the rooks are not connected,
they can easily fall prey to the queen...




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