Noun: zugzwang (countable and uncountable, plural zugzwangs or zugzwänge)
- (chess) A situation in which a player is forced to make a disadvantageous move.
- in figurative uses
- 2002: Carl Friedrich Graumann and Werner Kallmeyer [eds.], 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 m (plural zugzwangs)
- (chess) zugzwang...