The English Language

[MartinCarpenter]

Complex numbers is maths, not chess or English

[Alex Holowczak]

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

Or because the words come from different origins. Google suggests "prevent" is originally a Latin word, and "block" is Dutch.

[soheil_hooshdaran]

Complex numbers is maths, not chess or English

Math is just a way to describe world phenomena

[soheil_hooshdaran]

What's the difference between stopping the f-pawn and stopping it in its tracks?

[John McKenna]

To "stop (something) in its tracks" means to bring (something) in motion to a sudden halt.

In the case of the f-pawn simply "stopping" it does not imply if it has been moving, or not.

"Stopping it in its tracks" specifies that it is, or has been, moving but that its motion has been halted.

[soheil_hooshdaran]

What does "evolution/revolution" translate to? (In the work of GM Aagaard)?

[IM Jack Rudd]

In this context, I'd say evolution was gradual change within an existing framework of thought, and revolution a fundamental change in what those frameworks are.

[soheil_hooshdaran]

Why did he say
Now I can chop off White's pawn if ....?

[John McKenna]

In chess parlance "chopping wood" means capturing material - the chessmen used to be made of wood in the old days hence that expression.

It has been mentiioned here before -

http://www.ecforum.org.uk/search.php?ke ... sf=msgonly

Perhaps we should start using the expression "collecting plastic" these days, too.

[soheil_hooshdaran]

So no implication?

[soheil_hooshdaran]

What does it mean that ...Ng7 stops f5 'once and for all'?
Black stopped f4-f5 once with his ..g6 before....

[IM Jack Rudd]

"Once and for all" = permanently.

[NickFaulks]

"Once and for all" = permanently.

in fact it's "the final solution", although you're not allowed to say that.

[soheil_hooshdaran]

"Once and for all" = permanently.

in fact it's "the final solution", although you're not allowed to say that.

Why?

[NickFaulks]

It's an English thing, there's no logic, you just have to learn the rules.