Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 08:11:57 02/11/03
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On February 11, 2003 at 03:36:22, Uri Blass wrote: >On February 11, 2003 at 02:44:48, Russell Reagan wrote: > >>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. > >bishop and knight are better than rook and pawn >2 rooks are not better than queen and pawn. > >Uri Also a queen is not as good as three minor pieces.
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