Examples of using "цугцванг" in a sentence and their english translations:
Zugzwang is a situation in which the obligation to make a move in one's turn is a serious, often decisive, disadvantage.
"Zugzwang" is a German word which, with reference to chess, means more or less the following: "obligation to make a move and, consequently, to lose the game".
Sometimes, one of the players manages to force the opponent to make a move that causes him to lose. It is then said that he put the opponent in zugzwang.