zugzwang

From German Zugzwang, from Zug (“move”) +‎ Zwang (“compulsion”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈzʌɡzwæŋ/, /ˈzuːɡzwæŋ/, /ˈtsuːktsvaŋ/

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zugzwang (countable and uncountable, plural zugzwangs or zugzwänge)

1. (chess) A situation in which a player is forced to make a disadvantageous move.
2. (figurative) A situation in which someone is forced to make a disadvantageous move
   • 2002, Carl Friedrich Graumann and Werner Kallmeyer, editor, Perspective and Perspectivation in Discourse‎, page 174:

     An explanation for this phenomenon may be that speech acts that include instructions (e.g., a command or request) show a higher level of activity than speech acts of assertion; the ethnomethodological analysis of conversation speaks of conversational Zugzwänge:²⁴ a request, a question or a command demands a reaction of the addressee.

Zugzwang typically refers to a situation in which a player is forced to make a disadvantageous move though they would prefer not to make a move.

• Zugzwang

• zugzwang on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

From German Zugzwang.

• IPA^(key): /tsuɡts.vaŋɡ/

zugzwang m (plural zugzwangs)

1. (chess) zugzwang

Unadapted borrowing from German Zugzwang.

• IPA^(key): /t͡suk.t͡sfaŋk/
• Rhymes: -ukt͡sfaŋk
• Syllabification: zug‧zwang

zugzwang m inan

1. (chess) zugzwang (situation in which a player is forced to make a disadvantageous move)

• zugzwang in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• zugzwang in Polish dictionaries at PWN