Play(chess)

He means that the King becomes an attacking piece like a Bishop or a Rook in the endgame. The rest of the game, he hides.

Could you tell me the meaning of 'play' and not the entire sentence, please?

That page is missing from the preview I can look at in Amazon. I realize that it is the title of a section. The writer uses "play" in a way that is not conventional. The King is a piece of wood, and he therefore can't play, but the writer is pretending that he can. I guess I would define this use of "plays" as "takes an active role".

so why didn't seirawan say it becomes active in the endgame?

Your question makes me think you don't realize how many different ways there are to say a thing in English. English has an enormous vocabulary, and there are quite often two or more synonyms for the exact same idea. The only other language I know much about, French, normally has only one word for a thing. I don't know about Farsi, which I assume is your native tongue.

Thinking further abo

What is injury time?

Rats. I tried to use an international sports reference to counter the perception of American parochialism. Massive fail.

A soccer game (what the rest of the world calls a football game) lasts 90 minutes.The clock never stops. However, the referee keeps track of how much time goes by whenever a player interrupts the game by lying on the ground pretending to be hurt, and he lets the game co

Well, in the opening and the middlegame, mostly the king is a liability.it needs protection. It normaly can't be activated.
He is correct is stating in a paragraph under that title that:

In the first two phases of a game (the opening and the middlegame), the King is for the most part a liability. However, in the third phase (the endgame). the

Don't we call it 'extra time'?

enoonRats. I tried to use an international sports reference to counter the perception of American parochialism. Massive fail.A soccer game (what the rest of the world calls a football game) lasts 90 minutes.The clock never stops. However, the referee keeps track of how much time goes by whenever a player interrupts the game by lying on the gro

soheil1Don't we call it 'extra time'?

That is something else. An ordinary game can end in a draw. There are times, though, when you have to have a winner, and if such a game is drawn at the end of regulation plus injury time, it goes into extra time, two 15-minute periods..