An article about early computer chess programs. (I don't play chess any more.)
http://www.uni-paderborn.de/cs/chess/chesshome/zugzwang.htmlhttp://chess.liveonthenet.com/chess/beginner/glossary.htmlzugzwang - The compulsion to move. When a player would rather maintain the current position, but must move in turn.
With 16 unmoving views before this and no where to go, I succumb
Dear IP: Sorry that you felt compelled to move. I would never wish to apply zugzwang to you. Bill
zwang
siehe auch gewalt, autorität, macht, herrschaft, unterdrückung, mehrheit, konformismus, manipulation, logik, objektivität, recht,
moral, dogmatismus, ethik, pflicht, anarchismus
So, what you're saying is. son los mismos?they are the same thing?
See ZUG for a bit of fun.
http://www.zug.com/
"Son los mismos nombres, quiero a los mismos hombres"
<<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.
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.
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(!))
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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Does the OED2 have anything to add?
W3 has patzer from G. patzer, a blunderer; and patsy from It. pazzo, a fool. coincidence?
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