The English Language
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What's the difference between 'storied' and 'famous'?
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What does the underlined 'does' mean?
Don't allow a passed pawn to get blocked. If your opponent does manage to block it, do everything in your power to remove the blockader.
Don't allow a passed pawn to get blocked. If your opponent does manage to block it, do everything in your power to remove the blockader.
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Nothing and essentially nothing - its really just adding an s to manage in a slightly fancier way.
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Shouldn't the author use the verb 'blockade' instead of 'block''?
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Same or equivalent meaning and avoids using "blockade" and "blockader" in the same sentence.soheil_hooshdaran wrote: ↑Tue Mar 13, 2018 4:53 amShouldn't the author use the verb 'blockade' instead of 'block''?
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What does it mean if a line "wins the house"?
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It's an idiom meaning total victory or equivalent. Derived from gambling probably.
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What's the difference between
White bacjs up the d-pawn
and
White covers the d-pawn
?
White bacjs up the d-pawn
and
White covers the d-pawn
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What does it mean that an advancing pawn can "work for" its own promotion?
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Soheil Hooshdaran wrote:
What's the difference between
White backs up the d- pawn and White covers the d -pawn.
No real difference.
What's the difference between
White backs up the d- pawn and White covers the d -pawn.
No real difference.
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Thanks.
And what about my March 20 post?
And what about my March 20 post?
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What's the difference between 'critical squares' and 'vital squares'?
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"Critical square" has a specific meaning in the field of chess composition, referring to a square that a rook/bishop/queen needs to cross to be able to defend a square on the same side of that square. I don't know if that's the context you're looking at.
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[...], pawns also keep enemy pieces out of critical squares.IM Jack Rudd wrote: ↑Fri Mar 23, 2018 1:20 pm"Critical square" has a specific meaning in the field of chess composition, referring to a square that a rook/bishop/queen needs to cross to be able to defend a square on the same side of that square. I don't know if that's the context you're looking at.
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In which case, no, it's not the technical term, and so your two phrases would be essentially equivalent.