The English Language

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soheil_hooshdaran
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Re: The English Language

Post by soheil_hooshdaran » Sun May 28, 2017 7:52 pm

Means ...because it is...?

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Re: The English Language

Post by soheil_hooshdaran » Sun May 28, 2017 7:57 pm

What's the difference between
...the plans that are typically followed...
and
...the plans that are usually followed...?

MartinCarpenter
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Re: The English Language

Post by MartinCarpenter » Mon May 29, 2017 9:28 am

Nothing.

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Re: The English Language

Post by soheil_hooshdaran » Mon May 29, 2017 8:05 pm

Why does he repeatedly say
enemy pieces
not
oppenent pieces?

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Re: The English Language

Post by Matt Mackenzie » Mon May 29, 2017 8:13 pm

Just that "enemy" sounds a bit more colourful and fits in with chess being a "game of war".
"Set up your attacks so that when the fire is out, it isn't out!" (H N Pillsbury)

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Re: The English Language

Post by soheil_hooshdaran » Tue May 30, 2017 10:41 am

:?: "ponderous" is an insult?
Like ponderous Rok
In fact, they are actually rather ponderous creatures

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Re: The English Language

Post by MartinCarpenter » Tue May 30, 2017 6:25 pm

Slow, slothful etc.

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Re: The English Language

Post by soheil_hooshdaran » Tue May 30, 2017 8:11 pm

What's the difference between
blocking unit
and
blockading unit?
What does it mean that the oawn on e6 blocks f4-f5 and d4-d5?(There is Black pawns on c6 and g6 too)

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Re: The English Language

Post by MartinCarpenter » Wed May 31, 2017 9:51 am

Nothing much, although conceivably a blockading piece is implied as being physically in the way more than a 'mere' blocking one would be.

With the e6 pawn, he just means that it is preventing white from playing those moves without adverse consequences.

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Re: The English Language

Post by soheil_hooshdaran » Wed May 31, 2017 4:20 pm

So why do you not call "preventive measures", "blocking measures"

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Re: The English Language

Post by MartinCarpenter » Wed May 31, 2017 8:46 pm

You can more or less. Like I've said a few times we like to have many more than one phrase to call everything!

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Re: The English Language

Post by soheil_hooshdaran » Thu Jun 01, 2017 5:27 pm

What's the diffe4rence betweern fixing, immobilizing, and blocking opponent pawns?

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Re: The English Language

Post by Barry Sandercock » Thu Jun 01, 2017 7:12 pm

No real difference.

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Re: The English Language

Post by soheil_hooshdaran » Thu Jun 01, 2017 10:13 pm

What about the imaginary (unreal) part?

N.B: Every complex number has a real part and an imaginary (unreal) part.

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Re: The English Language

Post by John McKenna » Fri Jun 02, 2017 1:38 am

What Barry wrote is correct.

The language used only seems complex - fixing, immobilizing and blocking have no imaginary part in this case and really do have the same meaning.