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Unpleasant obligation to move, in chess
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zugzwang
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Zugzwang is a musical work by Juan Maria Solare . It is subtitled "Fifteen authentic miniatures about the strategy of chess" for quartet: violin (or flute ), alto Saxophone (or clarinet ), double bass (or cello ) and piano (or synthesizer ). Cologne, 29 ...
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n. 1 (context chess English) A situation in which a player is forced to make a disadvantageous move. 2 (non-gloss definition: ''in figurative uses'')
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1904, in chess, from German Zugzwang , literally "move-compulsion," from Zug "move (in chess), a drawing, pulling, a stretch," from Old High German ziohan "to pull," from Proto-Germanic *teuhan , from PIE root *deuk- "to lead" (see duke (n.)).
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