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soheil_hooshdaran wrote: ↑

Mon Dec 10, 2018 12:55 pm

Thanks. What's blindness?

Puzzled - why do you ask? We talk about "Chess blindness" - e.g when a player fails to see an obvious continuation

Thanks. What does as many times before and many more in the future,[..] mean? Is it an idiom? It means just what it says - the writer states that something has happened many times in the past and predicts it will happen many times in the future - for example "[Black lost by taking the pawn on b2 wi...

Still, it is better to fight with one pawn less than two, even if the result should be the same! What does 'should' mean here? Thanks in advance That the same result is expected in either case. Does not imply anything to do with legality or morality So here 'should' means 'is still'; 'anyway'? Not ...

up to that time, I thought 'to drum up' meant to g[r]ow, develop. But I can conclude nothing from drumming up a Bishop and druming up a primitive action. Means widening the scope of? If so, what about druming up a primitive action? Similarly, what to make of this definition, considering drumming up...

soheil_hooshdaran wrote: ↑

Sun Nov 25, 2018 6:09 pm

Still, it is better to fight with one pawn less than two, even if the result should be the same!

What does 'should' mean here?

Thanks in advance

That the same result is expected in either case. Does not imply anything to do with legality or morality

Yes, I think so - more or less 'drum up' seems to mean differntly in Black needs some primi­tive action, but this is not easy to drum up. right? No - this seems exactly like we had discussed before: " it means to encourage, to bring to greater activity (the idea of people responding to the beat of ...

soheil_hooshdaran wrote: ↑

Tue Nov 20, 2018 7:31 pm

nice means very pleasant or just pleasant?

Depends on the context. Normally it means just pleasant and we would qualify it (e.g. that was a a really nice sacrifice") It's a weak word - we try to avoid writing it if there is a suitable alternative

"Yes, 3 plans are proposed for each test, But these 2 posts are irrelevant." Sorry my posts are not relevant - I don't understand why not - no need to explain. Wish you well

This sounds like an exercise where the reader gains points by choosing the best moves. It sounds like the author has envisaged at least 3 possible alternatives in the given position and the reader has been asked to choose between them. The author has outlined Plan A - but said that it is ineffective...

I would expect a thrust to be an attacking pawn move - at least to the 5th rank

Yes, I think so - more or less

"sth" ? - if it means "something" and you are asking about "drum up" - it means to encourage, to bring to greater activity (the idea of people responding to the beat of a drum) - in a chess sense, I suppose it could be used about - for example - drumming up a king side attack by advancing pawns, or ...

White might be able to hold on as he has no static weaknesses, either in his pawn-structure or in his piece placement. Is he saying that piece placement is an static factor? Apparently - but it seems like an odd thing to say ... he needs to move something, so it cannot be static ... I get the sense...

soheil_hooshdaran wrote: ↑

Fri Nov 09, 2018 8:08 am

My advantage looks adequate to claim the full point in this endgame.

What does it mean to 'claim' the full point?

Just means "win the game" - achieve the full point

soheil_hooshdaran wrote: ↑

Tue Oct 30, 2018 7:12 am

he had accurately evaluated the resulting endgame as better for him

Accurately means completely correctly?

Yes