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Zugzwang (from German 'compulsion to move'; pronounced [ˈtsuːktsvaŋ]) is a situation found in chess and other turn-based games wherein one player is put at a disadvantage because of their obligation to make a move; a player is said to be "in zugzwang" when any legal move will worsen their position.
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 the final position is sometimes considered a rare instance of zugzwang occurring in the middlegame . [ 1 ]
Continuing into the 20th century, artists created works related to the game often taking inspiration from the life of famous players or well-known games. An unusual connection between art and chess is the life of Marcel Duchamp , who in 1923 almost fully suspended his artistic career to focus on chess.
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Zugzwang is a situation found in chess and other games wherein one player is put at a disadvantage because they must make a move when they would prefer to pass 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 of the television series Extant
The recipe was first shared by the queen in a letter to President Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1960 after she served them to Eisenhower and his wife, Mamie, when they visited her at Balmoral castle in ...
1. Cook your pasta according to the instructions on the back of the box. While that cooks, also brown your ground beef, adding garlic powder, onion powder, Italian seasoning, salt and pepper.
Many chess openings and variations are named after Nimzowitsch, the most famous being the Nimzo-Indian Defence (1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 Bb4) and the less often played Nimzowitsch Defence (1.e4 Nc6). Nimzowitsch biographer GM Raymond Keene and others have referred to 1.Nf3 followed by 2.b3 as the Nimzowitsch–Larsen Attack .