Definitions for Luft
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1. luft

   In chess, a flight square or escape square is a safe square to which a piece, especially a king, can move if it is threatened. Providing one's piece with flight squares can prevent the opponent from winning material or delivering checkmate. For example, in the Morphy Defence, the white c-pawn may be advanced to provide the light-squared white bishop with a flight square. Conversely, it is possible to take away an enemy piece's flight squares, known as domination.

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1. Luft

   Luft, the German word for "air", is used by some chess writers and commentators to denote a space left by a pawn move into which a castled king may move, especially such a space made with the intention of avoiding a back rank checkmate. A move leaving such a space is often said to "give the king some luft". In German itself, however, such a space would be called a Luftloch. A simplified example is seen to the right. Black is threatening checkmate with the simple 1...Re1# and White must deal with this threat. The right thing to do is to give the king some luft by moving a pawn on the g or h file: 1.g3, 1.g4, 1.h3, and 1.h4 will all avoid immediate checkmate. After each, 1...Re1+ can be simply met with 2.Kg2 or 2.Kh2. It is usually better to move the h-pawn because moving the f-pawn can weaken the king's position and moving the g-pawn creates holes at f3 and h3. In the diagram, Black has a weak luft because of the holes on a6 and c6; White has a strong luft, without holes.

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1. LUFT

   According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Luft is ranked #12218 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
   
   The Luft surname appeared 2,548 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 1 would have the surname Luft.
   
   94.6% or 2,411 total occurrences were White.
   2.4% or 62 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
   1.5% or 40 total occurrences were of two or more races.
   0.8% or 22 total occurrences were Asian.
   0.3% or 8 total occurrences were Black.
   0.2% or 5 total occurrences were American Indian or Alaskan Native.

How to pronounce Luft?

1. Alex

   US English

   David

   US English

   Mark

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

   Indian

   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

   British

   Fred

   US English

   Tessa

   South African

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of Luft in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of Luft in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

Popularity rank by frequency of use

References

1. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luft
2. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=Luft
3. ^ Surnames Frequency by Census Records
   https://www.census.gov/topics/population/genealogy/data/2010_surnames.html