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Position
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Position
A market commitment; the number of contracts bought or sold for which no offsetting transaction has been entered into. The buyer of a commodity is said to have a long position, and the seller of a commodity is said to have a short position. Related: Open contracts.

Position
The state of owning or owing a security or other asset. One has a long position when one owns something, while one has a short position when something is sold, especially sold short. See also: Close a position.

position
The ownership status of a person's or an institution's investments. For example, a person may own 500 shares of Sun Microsystems, 350 shares of Boeing, and a $10,000 principal amount of 9% bonds due in 2001. See also long position, short position.

position
To buy or sell securities in order to establish a net long or a net short position. Also called take a position.


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White may have seen e4 and not played is it because of the fear that his material and positional advantage would be offset by Black having the Bishop pair, making it difficult to win the endgame In the final position White has successfully shepherded Black's pieces on to poor squares and although Black can get some material back White's threat of Ra8+ followed by Ng8 Bxh7 is ultimately unstoppable.
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Kumar, who is a new name in the field, played local Mohammed Jawad and managed to convert his slight positional advantage into winning position.
 
 
 
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