Pinning(chess)

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Hi.What's the difference betweenWhite can then playBb5pinning the Queen to its King and trading the Black Qeeen (9 points) for White Bishop (3 points), at gain of 6 points!andWhite can then playBb5which pins the Queen to its King and trading the Black Qeeen (9 points) for White Bishop (3 points), at gain of 6 points!andWhite can then playBb5and pin the Queen to its King and trading the Black Qeeen (9 points) for White Bishop (3 points), at gain of 6 points!andWhite can then playBb5,  pin the Queen to its King and trading the Black Qeeen (9 points) for White Bishop (3 points), at gain of 6 points!?Thanks in advance!

GPY · Accepted Answer

The following are all possible, but you must change both verbs in parallel:

pinning the Queen to its King and trading the Black Queen ...
pins the Queen to its King and trades the Black Queen ...
... (and) pin the Queen to its King and trade the Black Qeeen ...

While there is no great difference in meaning, the first one reads most smoothly to me in this context. It doesn't look right to start a line with a comma, and the continuity of the final variant seems to require a comma if "and" is omitted; hence this one feels a bit awkward with the split-line format (which I assume is an intentional feature of the layout). There would be commas in the other cases too if written in one sentence, but the line break seems to obviate the need.

"at gain" should be "at a gain". I would use an article in front of "White Bishop" too.

Soheil1 · Answer

Oops!
It was 'a gain' not 'at gain'.
I have made a mistake in OCR-ing this part of the book.

So my which-sentence wouldn't do?

GPY · Answer

I'm sorry, my second example should read:

which pins the Queen to its King and trades the Black Queen

Strange, I feel sure that I wrote the word "which".

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