The Hobbit by JR Tolkien
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kindaspongey wrote:
In a previous discussion, someone reported a passage from Pawn Power in Chess by Kmoch: "The lengthening of the rearspan is often favorable, inasmuch as the expansion of territory behind the pawn increases the freedom of the pieces. By the same token, the shortening of the frontspan limits the freedom of the opposing pieces."
I may use that as a chat up line...
In a previous discussion, someone reported a passage from Pawn Power in Chess
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"The lengthening of the rearspan is often favorable, inasmuch as the expansion of territory behind the pawn increases the freedom of the pieces. By the same token, the shortening of the frontspan limits the freedom of the opposing pieces."
@kindaspongey
Thats page 12 from the PDF. Lets quote this piece of text together with the definitions and the diagram:
I §1: Location
A pawns location is defined by its distance from the four rims, the sum of which forms the pawn cross.
The horizontal beams of the pawn-cross are uneven and unalterable; we refer to them as lee and luff, calling the shorter side lee, as it frequently offers belter shelter to the King. A change in lee and luff by means of capture has radical consequences, for the pawn disappears and emerges as a new pawn with a different denomination. For instance, if the b2-pawn carries out a capture on c3, White virtually loses his b2-pawn but gains a c-pawn.
The vertical beams, while never even, change with every advance of the pawn but do not alter the pawns denomination. We call the vertical distances from the rims spans, distinguishing between frontspan and rearspan (and referring to the vertical distance between two opposing pawns as interspan).
The lenghtening of the rearspan is often favourable, inasmuch as the expansion of territory behind the pawns increases the freedom of the pieces. By the same token, the shortening of the frontspan limits the freedom of the opposing pieces.
I would guess that some people dont know what lee and luff means (these are the german words for leeward and windward) or what denomination means.
Edit: the english wiki entries are idiotic. Here is a translation of the german entry:
Luv [lu: f] and Lee [le:] name the sides of an object in relation to the wind. Luv is the wind-facing side and Lee is the side facing away from the wind. The terms come from the sailor language.
(If i am not wrong, Kmoch wrote this book after world war 2. He had been on a ship during the war)
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@ others i agree with the suggestions of the Dworetzky books, these are exzellent books. The same is true for the Silman and the Chernev books but i think someone with 1500+ rating can already read books with more davanced topics.