Just means "win the game" - achieve the full pointsoheil_hooshdaran wrote: ↑Fri Nov 09, 2018 8:08 amMy advantage looks adequate to claim the full point in this endgame.
What does it mean to 'claim' the full point?
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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 defencesoheil_hooshdaran wrote: ↑Fri Nov 09, 2018 7:09 pmWhite 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?
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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.
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To drum up sth means to create it bit-by-bit or just with persistence?
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"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.
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oh thanks, so drum up initiative/activity/etc, means the same as develop initiative/activity/etc?Andy Stoker wrote: ↑Sun Nov 11, 2018 3:10 am"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.
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Yes, I think so - more or less
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What does 'Modern Chess practice' mean?
The most important element in modern chess practice is probably correct planning.
The most important element in modern chess practice is probably correct planning.
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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'?
Why not 'Would make White satisfied'?
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What does it mean if a coontinuation is more 'accurate' (he didn't use precise or exact)?
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No difference practically speaking.soheil_hooshdaran wrote: ↑Tue Nov 13, 2018 12:06 pmWhat does it mean if a coontinuation is more 'accurate' (he didn't use precise or exact)?
"Set up your attacks so that when the fire is out, it isn't out!" (H N Pillsbury)
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Thanks.
What's a 'thrust'?
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What's a 'thrust'?
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Probably an attacking move. Not a normal chess term.
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I would expect a thrust to be an attacking pawn move - at least to the 5th rank
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The two connected passed pawns will beat the isolated passed c-pawn.
'the' means 'this?
The two connected passed pawns will beat the isolated passed c-pawn.
'the' means 'this?