Zugzwang (from German 'compulsion to move'; pronounced [ˈtsuːktsvaŋ]) is a situation found in chess and other turn-based games wherein one player is put...

and not move. Zugzwang may also refer to: Zugzwang, a musical work by Juan María Solare Zugzwang, a 2006 novel by Ronan Bennett "Zugzwang," an episode...

The Immortal Zugzwang Game is a chess game between Friedrich Sämisch and Aron Nimzowitsch, played in Copenhagen in March 1923. It gained its name because...

della nebbia Two Still Lives in Free Fall Veinticinco de agosto, 1983 Zugzwang - It is subtitled "Fifteen authentic miniatures about the strategy of chess"...

Triangulation is a tactic used in chess to put one's opponent in zugzwang (a position in which it is a disadvantage to move). Triangulation is also called...

opponent in zugzwang. In this example, if only the queenside pieces were considered, it would be an instance of full-point reciprocal zugzwang – the player...

but White resigned on move 99. Troitsky There are positions of mutual zugzwang in the endgame with two knights versus one pawn. In this position, White...

Petersburg. One of Nimzowitsch's most famous games is his celebrated immortal zugzwang game against Sämisch at Copenhagen 1923. Another game on this theme is...

relationship is exclusively long-distance, as Maeve is being stalked. In "Zugzwang," Maeve is kidnapped and later killed by her stalker, Diane Turner, in...

bishop. This allows the queen and knight to develop a fulminant attack. Zugzwang (German for "compulsion to move") occurs when a player is forced to make...

which is a book win, then this endgame itself is a book win. Inducing zugzwang is a crucial theme in winning simple endgames, and almost exclusively in...

without check, the king may be forced into check and thus capture through zugzwang. In 1995 the German Internet Chess Server (GICS) introduced the game, based...

described as "full-point mutual zugzwang." Instead, 1...Kb3! 2.Kd5 Kb4 wins. An extraordinary example of using zugzwang to swindle one's way out of a dead...

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parliament (expression) Prisoner's dilemma Russian roulette Stalemate Truel Zugzwang Buytendijk, Frank (2010). Dealing with Dilemmas: Where Business Analytics...

The Scribbler, produced by Gabriel Cowan. In the Criminal Minds episode "Zugzwang", Trachtenberg played Diane Turner, the criminal stalker to Spencer Reid's...

(for example, by the possibility of developing an attack). Example of zugzwang The endgame (also end game or ending) is the stage of the game when there...

right and the left.] Quadbeck, Eva (12 September 2023). "Wagenknecht unter Zugzwang" [Wagenknecht under pressure to move]. RedaktionsNetzwerk Deutschland (in...

has a number of extra tempos that can be used to put the other side into zugzwang. Partisan games are more difficult to analyze than impartial games, as...

contributes regularly to the British and Irish press. In 2006, Bennett's novel Zugzwang, was published week-by-week in the British Sunday newspaper The Observer...

zugzwang among rook and pawn versus rook endgames. All of them were tabulated and published. The full list is available online. Some of the zugzwangs...

Philidor position Strategy fortress opposition Tarrasch rule triangulation Zugzwang Study Tablebase Two knights endgame Wrong bishop Wrong rook pawn Tournaments...

positional game. Philidor, 1777 There is a class of chess positions called Zugzwang in which the player obligated to move would prefer to "pass" if this were...

Stamp) In physics, it can be used to denote a vector facing out of the page Zugzwang in chess notation The Lost Symbol – a novel by Dan Brown that uses this...

pieces) is that by itself it cannot lose a move to put the opponent in zugzwang (see triangulation and tempo), while a bishop can. In the position pictured...

rook to the inferior third rank while preventing 5...Rd1+. Black is in zugzwang. 5... Rc3 If instead 5...Kc8, then 6.Rb4 Kd8 7.Rf4 Re1 (or 7...Kc8 8.Bd5...

Self-reference Social trap Strange loop Vicious circle Wicked problem Zugzwang Largest Idioms Dictionary, The Idioms. "Catch 22 meaning". Theidioms.com...

favor an aggressive king. Passed pawns increase greatly in importance. Zugzwang is often a factor in endgames and rarely in other stages of the game. Mednis...

Philidor position Strategy fortress opposition Tarrasch rule triangulation Zugzwang Study Tablebase Two knights endgame Wrong bishop Wrong rook pawn Tournaments...

Philidor position Strategy fortress opposition Tarrasch rule triangulation Zugzwang Study Tablebase Two knights endgame Wrong bishop Wrong rook pawn Tournaments...