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What is a zugzwang?

What is a zugzwang? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (chess) A situation in which a player is forced to make a disadvantageous move.
  2. in figurative uses
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A lost opening it's a opening that your opponent can win the game by zugzwang.
This touches on zugzwang, stalemate, fortresses, attack on the king, and some other absurd examples.
In its threat to use force against the Libyan government, the international community put Muammar Gaddafi into what chess aficionados call zugzwang.
Brady may have been in zugzwang when he chose to write this book.
After a while one would realise that this position looks like a mutual zugzwang.
As Beim explains, with accurate play, there is no way to put Black into zugzwang.

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