In chess a "material advantage" is a type of advantage in which one player has more "material" than the other player. This means that sum of the relative value of that player's pieces (typically measured in pawn equivalents) is greater than the sum of the relative value of his opponent's pieces.

A simpler way of saying this is that one player has either more pieces, better pieces, or both still on the board compared to the other player.

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