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#43482 10/01/2001 10:24 PM
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An article about early computer chess programs. (I don't play chess any more.)

http://www.uni-paderborn.de/cs/chess/chesshome/zugzwang.html

http://chess.liveonthenet.com/chess/beginner/glossary.html




zugzwang - The compulsion to move. When a player would rather maintain the current position, but must move in turn.

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With 16 unmoving views before this and no where to go, I succumb


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Dear IP: Sorry that you felt compelled to move. I would never wish to apply zugzwang to you. Bill


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zwang

siehe auch gewalt, autorität, macht, herrschaft, unterdrückung, mehrheit, konformismus, manipulation, logik, objektivität, recht,
moral, dogmatismus, ethik, pflicht, anarchismus


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So, what you're saying is. son los mismos?they are the same thing?


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See ZUG for a bit of fun.

http://www.zug.com/


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"Son los mismos nombres, quiero a los mismos hombres"


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<<siehe auch...

Verstehe ueberhaupt nicht was Sie damit vorlegen wollen, Wilhelm. Man merkt aber wie die erste vier ausgezeigte Woerter <<die laune>> Ihren Satzes spiegeln.


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No, not to Animal Safari; I'll leave that to my ASp to suggest.

In Go (http://www.well.com/user/mmcadams/gointro.html) you can pass if you don't feel you have an advantageous move.



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Date: Mon Jan 5 00:03:44 EST 1998
Subject: A.Word.A.Day--zugzwang

Anu repeats himself (himself) after only three years!
(checkmate, stalemate, gambit, counterplay, endgame, patzer(!))


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maybe a gambit to check on who is listening properly!

BTW, does that etymology perhaps also produce patsy, as in 'the fall-guy'? Although AHD says otherwise, they seem far from sure of their preferred origin:

pat·sy (păt'sē)
n. Slang., pl. -sies.
A person easily taken advantage of, cheated, blamed, or ridiculed.

[Perhaps from Italian pazzo, fool, from Old Italian paccio.]


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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.

Does the OED2 have anything to add?


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W3 has patzer from G. patzer, a blunderer; and patsy from It. pazzo, a fool. coincidence?


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There are a great many URLs about "patzer". Here is one of them, which even gives sources of tutoring for chess beginners:
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http://home.planet.nl/~jimvandorp/chess/home.htm



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