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Re: The English Language
Posted: Sun Jan 06, 2019 6:54 am
by soheil_hooshdaran
Any difference betwewen 'play into White's hands' and 'work in White's favour'?
Re: The English Language
Posted: Sun Jan 06, 2019 8:48 pm
by soheil_hooshdaran
Any difference betwewen 'play into White's hands' and 'work in White's favour'?
Re: The English Language
Posted: Sun Jan 06, 2019 10:07 pm
by Andy Stoker
Former suggests error by black - latter is more of a sense that this is just how things worked out without a particular (further) mistake or weak play by black
Re: The English Language
Posted: Sun Jan 06, 2019 10:09 pm
by Andy Stoker
soheil_hooshdaran wrote: ↑Sat Jan 05, 2019 9:26 pm
He commented:
Forced, as otherwise the rook transfer Ra2-a5 is immediately decisive.
What is 'rook transfer'?
Just a rook manoeuvre - suggests that the rook was elsewhere on the second rank than moved first to a2 and then shortly afterwards (or next move) to a5
Re: The English Language
Posted: Sun Jan 06, 2019 11:12 pm
by soheil_hooshdaran
Thanks.
A modest move is a mild move?
Re: The English Language
Posted: Mon Jan 07, 2019 6:37 am
by Andy Stoker
Probably - I don't think "mild move" is a common term. "Modest" is the sort of word one might use when - for example - a player decides to reinforce his defences rather than play a somewhat risky attack
Re: The English Language
Posted: Thu Jan 10, 2019 6:36 pm
by soheil_hooshdaran
Thanks. Stopping something means making prophylaxis against it?
Re: The English Language
Posted: Thu Jan 10, 2019 7:01 pm
by Matt Mackenzie
That can be one way of stopping it (though far from the only one)
Re: The English Language
Posted: Sat Jan 12, 2019 1:28 pm
by soheil_hooshdaran
Matt Mackenzie wrote: ↑Thu Jan 10, 2019 7:01 pm
That can be one way of stopping it (though far from the only one)
What's the difference? and it what other way you can stop something?
Re: The English Language
Posted: Tue Jan 22, 2019 9:49 am
by soheil_hooshdaran
What's the difference3 between softening up and weakening something?
Re: The English Language
Posted: Tue Jan 22, 2019 4:04 pm
by Barry Sandercock
No difference in the chess sense.
Re: The English Language
Posted: Fri Jan 25, 2019 7:55 am
by Andy Stoker
Of all English language (apparent) errors, the misuse of "refute" must grate highly with chess players ... on the "Today" programme today, we heard of a politician "refuting" charges against him ... to our mind he has done nothing more than assert that they are false
Re: The English Language
Posted: Fri Jan 25, 2019 12:38 pm
by soheil_hooshdaran
Thanks.
What's the difference between 'stopping' and 'preventing' counterplay?
Re: The English Language
Posted: Fri Jan 25, 2019 3:35 pm
by Barry Sandercock
No real difference.
Re: The English Language
Posted: Sat Jan 26, 2019 9:45 am
by soheil_hooshdaran
Stopping counterplay means counterplay is in execution?