Author: Russell Reagan
Date: 23:44:48 02/10/03
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I'm not particularly great at chess, but I believe that whenever you trade two pieces for one (and the total material value of the trade comes out even, or close to even), it's a bad trade. The thinking is that if you trade two minor pieces for a rook, and if you are trying to defend a passed pawn later, you only have one piece to guard it, and the opponent has two to attack it, so you lose. The same for two rooks for queen. I hope this is correct, because I always trade my queen and pawn for two rooks, and a rook and pawn for two minor pieces :) I'm sure someone else can give a more thorough list. Maybe try searching rec.games.chess.misc archives on http://groups.google.com and also the CCC search engine might turn up something like this.
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