Zugzwang


a situation in which a player is limited to moves that cost pieces or have a damaging positional effect.
contemporary examples

the belarusian opposition is trapped in a zugzw-ng: personal casualties are the cost of their political progress.
forget kim jong un—china’s new favorite dictator is belarus’s aleksandr lukashenko. kapil komireddi january 27, 2014

noun
a position in which one player can move only with loss or severe disadvantage
verb
(transitive) to manoeuvre (one’s opponent) into a zugzw-ng

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