The English Language

[soheil_hooshdaran]

"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

Oops!
Not your posts, I meant my plan A and plan C posts referred to in your post, they are two separate posts.
Of course the posts of you and other forumees are helpfful. That's why I post on this forum.

[soheil_hooshdaran]

What's the difference between a target and a weakness?

[John McKenna]

A target is something to aim at and try to hit. It may, or may not, be a weakness.

E.g. - the archer aimed at the distant target and his arrow hit it in the bull's-eye (the smallest ring in the exact centre of the target and not a weakness).

A real bull's eye (as opposed to the bull's-eye of a wooden target) is a potential weakness in any conflict between the bull and another animal and could be deliberately targetted by an intelligent adversary, such as man.

Hence the name bull's-eye for the centre of a target.

So, an inanimate bull's-eye is a target but not a weakness, whereas a living bull's eye can be a weakness and a target in certain circumstances. E.g. when the bull, or another such animal, is hunted by man.

I think Tartakower said something like - in chess anything and everything can become a weakness and Lasker said weaknesses should be targets.

[soheil_hooshdaran]

Thanks.
any difference between ' x is no better' and 'x is not better at all'?

[John McKenna]

Yes, one version is verbose - it uses more words to say the same thing.

[soheil_hooshdaran]

Yes, one version is verbose - it uses more words to say the same thing.

Thanks.

[soheil_hooshdaran]

Consider:
An equal position is bread and butter for the stronger player, as he can go on testing his opponent without too much risk.
and
Such positions (reached with the assistance of modem technology) are bread and butter for the top players .

It seems that 'bread and butter' mean differently In the two sentences, right?

[John McKenna]

No, it means the same thing in both cases - equal positions are now the staple diet ("bread & butter") of the stronger and strongest players. Whether it is true or not is another matter, but an increase in long squeezes and grinds at the higher and highest levels may be an indication that it is.

[soheil_hooshdaran]

nice means very pleasant or just pleasant?

[Alex Holowczak]

The FIDE Facebook page says the FIDE President was at HostCity 2018 in Glasgow today. The post says "Opening panel at #hostcity2018 discussed how leaders need to focus on innovation, being disruptive and leveraging the fluid landscape of future events. The growth in #eSports really drives home this point."

What does "being disruptive and leveraging the fluid landscape of future events" mean?

[John McKenna]

Well, off the top of my head, all I can say is it sounds suspiciously like Old Agon-Spiel under the guise of New Fide-ish.

[NickFaulks]

I assume they believe that's the sort of thing that people who read organisations' Facebook pages like. For all I know, they could be right.

[Mick Norris]

Disruption is the term fund managers are using for often new companies using technology to take market share from older companies
So Amazon taking over from physical bookstores etc
Not just the FANGs but that sort of thing
(Facebook Amazon Netflix Google by the way )

[soheil_hooshdaran]

What's a basic/advanced weakness, and what's their difference?

[Andy Stoker]

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