weird to see that a joke post became so popular lol
Introducing "Stutzwang"
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Nov 19, 2025
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#23
A player can have only 1 legal move and still be in Zugswang, so the forced stalemate is really just another Zugswang.
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#25
magipi wrote:
blueemu wrote:
I think that Stalemate ought to be re-named Stuck-zwang.
Who's with me on this?
I think that Zugzwang should be renamed to something that English speakers can pronounce. And understand.
It's completely ridiculous to use a badly mispronounced loanword for 100+ years. Someone should have come up with something more reasonable.
just pronounce it bro 😭🥀
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#26
It's not even that hard to pronounce.
THE FACT THAT I'M LEARNING GERMAN IS NOT RELEVANT-
I vote for "Slime-Blocked"; it has the right tone to offset such erudite terms such as "en prise" and "en passant" or "Ruy Lopez". Just being corrected by some pronunciation gatekeeper as to the proper way to pronounce chess terms, makes you want to kick those "I drink-tea-with-my-pinkie-finger-extended" down the nearest flight of stairs.