Zugswang

What is Zugswang?


1.

German for "compulsion to move" - most often used in reference to chess when a position that would be tenable if one could keep all one's pieces where they currently stand, but is lost because one of them must vacate its position.

After Black's clever pawn sacrifice, White was in Zugswang.

See chess


24

Random Words:

1. 1. The act of catching ones genitals in the zip of their pants. 2. An ancient form of information movement. Thought to have been used b..
1. Being in a situation where someone you definitely don't want to know what your computer is full of (i. e. parents or gf/bf), is sta..