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Soheil1 Posted 13 years ago
Vocabulary

Put the question to

Hi.

What does this common chess comment mean?

Instead of 4.d4?, White would do better to put the question to Black's Bishop by

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    ?Thanks in advance
  

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soheil1 What does this common chess comment mean? It may be common, but it is open to interpretation. 'Put the question to' just means 'ask'.

— Mister Micawber

  • soheil1 What does this common chess comment mean?
  • It may be common, but it is open to interpretation.
  • 'Put the question to' just means 'ask'.
  • It could mean something like 'ask Black's bishop if he is willing to sacrifice himself,' for instance.
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soheil1What does this common chess comment mean?
It may be common, but it is open to interpretation. 'Put the question to' just means 'ask'. It could mean something like 'ask Black's bishop if he is willing to sacrifice himself,' for instance.
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http://www.chess.com/article/view/openings-for-beginners

Chess for beginners:

) Avoid weakening your basic position on principle. You must try not to create holes, or weaknesses in terms of backwards pawns, doubled pawns etc especially near the king. Often when a bishop
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Means put it on a dilemma?
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The phrase "put the question to the bishop" means asking the Black player if he's willing to exchange the bishop for the Knight that it's currently pinning. This is an idiom that arose from the most common case, which is in the Ruy Lopez, when white pins the black knight to the black king on move 3 with Bb5, and then on a subsequent move, black plays ...a4, attacking the bishop and for

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