The English Language

[soheil_hooshdaran]

Thanks

[soheil_hooshdaran]

What does 'play around' mean in
White has deeloped his whole army while Black played around with just one piece?

[MartinCarpenter]

In this case the implication is that black has spent (or even wasted) his time moving that piece.

[soheil_hooshdaran]

What's the difference between "gain of time" and "gain of tempo"?

[soheil_hooshdaran]

What's does
Yet quite a few of these players ask me about openings or other areas of the game. Little do they know that if they fix this one thing (making sure pieces are protected), they’ll find that their overall results will vastly improve.
mean?

[Roger de Coverly]

Little do they know that if they fix

Another idiom. It could be expressed as "They are unaware that if they fix .... "

[soheil_hooshdaran]

In
Always look to see if your opponent has an undefended piece and, if he does, see if there’s a way to punish it!
it refers to .... (fill in the blank)

[Barry Sandercock]

Awareness.

[soheil_hooshdaran]

Where is awareness?

[MartinCarpenter]

Filling in the blank, like you asked

[soheil_hooshdaran]

Please answer.
What does 'it' refer to? I don't see 'awareness' in the sentence

[E Michael White]

In
Always look to see if your opponent has an undefended piece and, if he does, see if there’s a way to punish it!
it refers to .... (fill in the blank)

The "it" would be the possession of an undefended piece by your opponent. That is the positive evaluation of the conditional clause "if your opponent has an undefended piece".

Using three conditional clauses in a sentence together with an implied nounal backward reference is not the clearest of ways to write !

[John McKenna]

In
Always look to see if your opponent has an undefended piece and, if he does, see if there’s a way to punish it!
it refers to .... (fill in the blank)

The "it" would be the possession of an undefended piece by your opponent. That is the positive evaluation of the conditional clause "if your opponent has an undefended piece".

Using three conditional clauses in a sentence together with a backward reference is not the clearest of ways to write !

For the sake of completeness I'd like to add the following -

You can't see the word 'awareness' because it is not there. Where it should be is 'blank', in other words an empty space, a gap.

The reader is being tested by being asked to think of an appropriate word to put in the blank space in the text.

Such exercises are common in language tests and called gap filling, or filling in the blank(s).

It is similar to filling in an application form but more interesting.

[soheil_hooshdaran]

Yes I saw such excersises, but woulds give a big 'zero' to who,ever says 'awarenss' ! Why would it be an appropi\riate word?

[Barry Sandercock]

Soheil Hooshdaran wrote:
Always look to see if your opponent has an undefended piece and , if he does, see if there is a way to punish it !

It all depends what the "it" refers to. If it refers to the whole sentence, then "awareness" sums it up. ( I am 86, so I could be wrong !! )