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Zug Zwang
Zug Zwang
Unreachable and yet outreaching in taunt,
Eagerness is for but the unwearied a bane.
For in zug zwang only inaction is of want;
When riddle ‘nd answer‘re one and the same.
But in what conduct must I indulge, that if
To advance brings mere suspense in wait,
Whilst that which rests ahead but fades away
‘Midst the quandary undying “what if?”
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Dictionary.com Word of the Day: zugzwang
Word of the Day for Tuesday, July 19, 2011
zugzwang TSOOK-tsvahng, noun:
A situation in which a player is limited to moves that have a damaging effect.
Oh, he understands his position: he is in trouble, he is faced with the zugzwang to end all zugzwangs.
-- Doug Dorst, The Surf Guru
Party rulers in China are trapped in a position that chess players deeply fear - zugzwang - where any move made puts you at disadvantage.
-- Vitaliy Katsenelson, "How China Will Crash And Burn," Forbes, July, 2011
Zugzwang combines two German words, zug, "move," and zwang, "constraint."
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/zugzwang
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