[tsook-tsvahng] 
| a situation in which a player is limited to moves that cost pieces or have a damaging positional effect. |
| zug·zwang (tsōōk'tsväng') n. A situation in a chess game in which a player is forced to make an undesirable or disadvantageous move. [German Zugzwang : Zug, pull, move (from Middle High German zuc, pull, from Old High German, from ziohan, to pull; see deuk- in Indo-European roots) + Zwang, compulsion (from Middle High German twanc, from Old High German).] |
