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I've never heard of either of them.

What's the meaning of traceable in :
n order to make this question tractable, we will make a few assumptions.
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Do you have an English dictionary Soheil?

Tractable is a fairly common word (and so is traceable but I suspect that you didn't mean that).

I've never heard of either phrase. What is the context in which you found them?

IM Jack Rudd wrote:I've never heard of either phrase. What is the context in which you found them?

In order to make this question tractable, we will make a few assumptions.

It is just that I was looking for a wrong word

What's the difference between 'settings' and 'environments'?

What does it mean to tip your King over?

soheil_hooshdaran wrote:What does it mean to tip your King over?

To resign.

I don't mean what is it the symbol of, I mean the actual move....
He said one way to resign is to tip your king over

It's not a move. By turning your king over and laying it on the board, it is a way of showing that you resign, instead of just stopping the clock or saying " I resign."

I cannot translate it as one way to resign is to resign

What happens if I remove "further" in:
it is useful to define them carefully here, and then to look further at some of their implications.

soheil_hooshdaran wrote:I cannot translate it as one way to resign is to resign

Unless it doesn't work as an idiom, it's "one way to resign is to knock over your king". Like boxing, the contest is over when the opponent lies on the floor.

"lay the king on its side" could be another way of expressing it.

soheil hooshdaran wrote:

What happens if I remove "further" in: it is useful to define them carefully here, and then look further at some of their implications.

If you remove " further," you still get pretty well the same meaning.

What's the difference between road and street?