The English Language

[Andy Stoker]

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

[Andy Stoker]

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 of a position where the pawn structure is sound and pieces are already fairly well placed for the defence

[Michael Farthing]

The phrase says "static weaknesses" and both words surely must be taken together. A doubled pawn is a static weakness. It is a weakness that often stays to the end of the game and cannot be got rid of easily. For pieces, to take an extreme example to make the point, might be a bishop on f1 with pawns on e2 and g2 and enemy pawns on e3 and g3. The bishop is (incredibly) weak and stands little chance of ever getting free.

[soheil_hooshdaran]

To drum up sth means to create it bit-by-bit or just with persistence?

[Andy Stoker]

"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 re-activating a bishop by re-deploying it ... it has the sense of attack, I think.

[soheil_hooshdaran]

"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 re-activating a bishop by re-deploying it ... it has the sense of attack, I think.

oh thanks, so drum up initiative/activity/etc, means the same as develop initiative/activity/etc?

[Andy Stoker]

Yes, I think so - more or less

[soheil_hooshdaran]

What does 'Modern Chess practice' mean?
The most important element in modern chess practice is probably correct planning.

[soheil_hooshdaran]

16 ... tbxd4?! 17 tbxd4 i.xc4 18 1:1c l d5 19 e5 tbd7 20 i.e3 ! ;1; would leave White satisfied.
Why not 'Would make White satisfied'?

[soheil_hooshdaran]

What does it mean if a coontinuation is more 'accurate' (he didn't use precise or exact)?

[Matt Mackenzie]

What does it mean if a coontinuation is more 'accurate' (he didn't use precise or exact)?

No difference practically speaking.

[soheil_hooshdaran]

Thanks.

What's a 'thrust'?

Thanks in advance

[Barry Sandercock]

Probably an attacking move. Not a normal chess term.

[Andy Stoker]

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

[soheil_hooshdaran]

In
The two connected passed pawns will beat the isolated passed c-pawn.
'the' means 'this?