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It seems a lot of people confuse 'zugzwang' for a position where any move loses.
For me, the hard definition of a zugzwang would be a position where any move loses BUT you could draw (or win) if you could just 'pass' the move to the opponent. Best example being the pawn endgame: white pawn on e7, king on d6 and black king on e8. Black to move is in zugzwang because if he does move, he loses. While passing the move to white would be a draw.
But to be fair, it also true that we hear about the other definition of a zugzwang i.e. a position where eventually any move would damage your position in some way. The classic example being the immortal zugzwang game by Nimzo where, in the end position, black (Nimzo) doesn't even have to play actively, as he can just wait and white will have to move, thereby weakening his position.
Last edited by Mathieu Cloutier; Tuesday, 17th January, 2017, 11:46 AM.
I now give the starting position, but first, it's interesting that Karlsen Müller posted a N vs B ending on his ChessBase blog just today. See here.
The position we examined is tougher (the image uploader is hardly user-friendly, so I'll just give the diagram specs; there are only 5 pieces):
W: K e6, N e5, P f6; B: K g8, B b2, White to play and win.
I now give the starting position, but first, it's interesting that Karlsen Müller posted a N vs B ending on his ChessBase blog just today. See here.
The position we examined is tougher (the image uploader is hardly user-friendly, so I'll just give the diagram specs; there are only 5 pieces):
W: K e6, N e5, P f6; B: K g8, B b2, White to play and win.
It looks like the diagram/image uploader here on ChessTalk simply doesn't work.
I tried creating a small diagram and even though the file size was 13K the uploader said it exceeded the allowed size by 43K! Now, that is some Trump calculation for ya!
Last edited by Kerry Liles; Tuesday, 17th January, 2017, 01:23 PM.
Reason: corrected as per Egis' example
The position we examined is tougher (the image uploader is hardly user-friendly, so I'll just give the diagram specs; there are only 5 pieces):
W: K e6, N e5, P f6; B: K g8, B b2, White to play and win.
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