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‖ Zugzwang Chess.|ˈtsuːktsvaŋ| [Ger., f. zug move + zwang compulsion, obligation.] A position in which a player is obliged to move but cannot do so without disadvantage; the disagreeable obligation to make such a move. Freq. in Zugzwang. Also transf.
1904Lasker's Chess Mag. I. iv. 166 White has struggled bravely and only loses by ‘Zugzwang’. 1930British Chess Mag. I. 196 The move..puts Black into a Zugswang [sic] position that speedily loses. 1935Smith & Bone tr. Tarrasch's Game of Chess i. 5 White has constrained his opponent to move, has placed him, as we say in Germany, in Zugzwang. 1942H. Golombek Fifty Great Games Mod. Chess 53/2 Black now has only a few pawn moves left after which he is in complete ‘Zugzwang’. 1963[see grab n.2 5 b]. 1973Country Life 13 Sept. 744/2 She is, to use a chess term, in complete Zugzwang. She could only make six tricks for a penalty of 200. |