[Vocabulary] unlikely

[hooshdar3]

Hi.
What are unlikely places
", ....with the king ablo to leap to all sorts of unlikly places."
(from a chess book by GM Seirawan)

 

[easybreakable]

*** Learner



I think it means "the unexpected places".

 

[Rover_KE]

That's a very odd sentence.

As you know, the king is able to move only one square at a time.

He is unable to leap anywhere.

(EDIT: This is a chess question if anybody's puzzled.)

Rover

 

[Raymott]

That's a very odd sentence.

As you know, the king is able to move only one square at a time.

He is unable to leap anywhere.

(EDIT: This is a chess question if anybody's puzzled.)

Rover

Except in castling - but even then, the King moves two spaces, and it's the rook that then leaps. And there are only two possible places the King can move to when castling.

I'd like to see the full sentence, and context which explains these leaping Kings.

 

[hooshdar3]

Except in castling - but even then, the King moves two spaces, and it's the rook that then leaps. And there are only two possible places the King can move to when castling.

I'd like to see the full sentence, and context which explains these leaping Kings.

"The 13th century castling was quite an advanture, with the king ablo to leap to all sorts of unlikly places."

 

[Raymott]

"The 13th century castling was quite an advanture, with the king ablo to leap to all sorts of unlikly places."

<Sigh> Thanks.

 

[hooshdar3]

<Sigh> Thanks.

So What does it mean?

 

[5jj]

You'd better ask a 13th century chess player.

 

[Rover_KE]

"The 13th century castling was quite an advanture, with the king ablo to leap to all sorts of unlikly places."

Can you appreciate that this full sentence would have been better quoted in your first post?

Note the correct spelling of adventure, able and unlikely.

You need to consult a history of chess.

 

[JohnParis]

As used in your example, the word unlikely means: improbable.

 

[Raymott]

So What does it mean?

It means that the places to which the King could leap in a 13th century chess game would seem unlikely to those of us who only know the current rules.

 

[birdeen's call]

You'd better ask a 13th century chess player.

Or consult Wikipedia: Castling - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia It is shortly explained there.

What I don't see in the article, and what I think is interesting, is this.