Sentence examples for positional attack from inspiring English sources

After 11... Na5 12 Black4!? Black will mount a positional attack on the white queenside.

It is a fight for power or if you want is like in soccer, we are witnessing a positional attack.

"We knew that game would require a shift in style: more about counterattacking than positional attacking.

Adolf Anderssen vs Wilhelm Steinitz; 13th match game, London 1866 Emanuel Lasker regarded this well-prepared attack as a precursor of the positional approach that Steinitz later advocated.

The "heroic" attacking school of play to which Anderssen belonged was eclipsed by Steinitz' positional approach – by 1894 it was generally acknowledged that the only way to beat Steinitz was to apply Steinitz' principles.

Although Steinitz is now known for inventing the positional approach to chess and demonstrating its superiority, the 1866 match was played in the attack-at-all-costs style of the 1850s and 1860s.

However, Bennett says Halfpenny's positional play and attacking qualities - he helped create two of the Lions' four tries - have put him on a par with legends such as Wales scrum-half Gareth Edwards and former Irish Lions Mike Gibson and Willie John McBride.

A feature of their usual 4-3-3 systhe is the frequent positional interchanging between their attacking players.

Consolidate weak positions in positional play.

It is hard to imagine many of the essential precepts of the modern game: pressing, the understanding of space as the game's crucial element, the positional flexibility that enables attackers to defend and defenders to attack whenever the need arises.

About four hours after it happened, the USGA released a statement that said doctors had diagnosed Day's incident as an attack of "benign positional vertigo".