The English Language

[soheil_hooshdaran]

Is the question about ' persistent' or 'consistent' ?

Ha!ha!
consistent...............

[soheil_hooshdaran]

What's the difference between a 'chess expert' AND a 'chess master'?

[Roger de Coverly]

What's the difference between a 'chess expert' AND a 'chess master'?

Rating usually. It's something of an American concept, that players above an Elo of X are "masters" and below that "experts". The USCF awards a "National Master" title at 2200. Chess expert is a lower title for which their cutoff is 2000. Below that are "Class players".

A British player with a rating above 2000 would just refer to himself or herself as a two thousands player, or more likely use the national grading system and describe themselves as a one-seventies or one-eighties player.

[Alex McFarlane]

A British player with a rating above 2000 would just refer to himself or herself as a two thousands player, or more likely use the national grading system and describe themselves as a one-seventies or one-eighties player.

An ENGLISH player might refer to themselves as a 170 or 180! I do not think that a Scottish or Welsh player would ever refer to themselves in that way. Even though I had an ECF grade of 170 why would I use an internationally meaningless term?

[soheil_hooshdaran]

Meaningless??

BTW, Iran has abandoned its national Rating system altogether

[IM Jack Rudd]

I have an ECF grade of 216. That doesn't mean anything to chess players unfamiliar with English grades. On the other hand, chess players around the world would understand a conversion of that to 2320 or so.

(This is substantially higher than my actual FIDE rating, which is 2255; my ECF grade gets bumped up by unrated events such as county matches and internal Barnstaple club games.)

[soheil_hooshdaran]

Being unrated just means the organizer didn't pay Fide to register it. White the registration fee for a tournament is just 200 pounds for Brits, it is 1'000'000 tomans for Iranis,which is more than a months wage of the typical worker, without substracting the expenses.
Being unrated saves on time and money, and can be a help, both for thhe average player who now can afford to take part in unrated FIDE events, and for the tournaments organizers, who now don't have to register the tournament in advance by several weeks or even months.

[soheil_hooshdaran]

Where is the verb n:
"Absolutely ZERO truth to rumors that @JohnKerry apologized to Iran over Sailors. Nothing to apologize for,"

?

[Barry Sandercock]

Rumors (rumours ) and apologized are verbs.

[MartinCarpenter]

Rumors isn't in that sentence though surely?

What's happened there is that they've cut the sentence short by omitting 'there are' from the front of it. People do that sort of thing
(Actually they've done the same with the second sentence! Maybe its very common usage in America or something, I wouldn't know.).

[soheil_hooshdaran]

What's the most difficult aspect of attacking the King, as stated by IM & FST Andrew Martin after 1:10 minutes in:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=up4-DxIU3W0

?

[soheil_hooshdaran]

and what is subject to what, in the next few minutes?

[soheil_hooshdaran]

what's "would shifty mood" in about 5:50 minute?

[Roger de Coverly]

what's "would shifty mood" in about 5:50 minute?

If you are going to ask what Andrew Martin means in his videos, you will have to provide a transcript, or attempt to contact him directly through a PM.

[Ian Thompson]

what's "would shifty mood" in about 5:50 minute?

He actually said "wood shifting mode", by which he meant White was moving pieces around without a good plan.

I am reminded of your previous post:

I attended a free lecture here in USA, and I understood very little. I suppose the problem is mostly do to my bad listening ability.