zugzwang

zugzwang englanniksi

1. A situation in which a player is forced to make a disadvantageous move.

2. A situation in which someone is forced to make a disadvantageous move.

3. (quote-book)

4. (quote-journal)|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/43556203|work=World Affairs|volume=177|issue=2|title=PUTIN'S ZUGZWANG: The Russia-Ukraine Standoff|passage=Here, too, it is Russia that, ironically, is in Zugzwang. Because the central rationale of Moscow's occupation of Crimea was the defense of supposedly threatened Russians, Putin and his minions must continue insisting that Ukraine's Russians are under threat and that their right are being systematically violated.

5. (quote-journal)

6. (quote-web)

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