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How To Win With Zugzwang

How To Win With Zugzwang

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GM Dejan Bojkov
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What is zugzwang and how can it help you win?

Zugzwang is the name for a position where every move makes things worse. GM Dejan Bojkov offers a thorough introduction and demonstrates how you can use zugzwang to win your own games.

  • Learn how to use zugzwang in middlegames and endgames.
  • Learn from examples ranging from classic games of Nimzovitch to the top engines of today.

How To Win With Zugzwang

GM Dejan Bojkov explains how to use zugzwang to win common endgame positions.
13 min
5 Challenges

How To Win With Zugzwang: Amazing Studies

Zugzwang can contribute to some of the most beautiful chess positions imaginable. Test your abilities with GM Dejan Bojkov.
8 min
5 Challenges

How To Win With Zugzwang: More Shocking Studies

GM Dejan Bojkov is back with more amazing studies. See if you can figure out how to use zugzwang to win in spectacular fashion.
10 min
5 Challenges

How To Analyze Your Games: The Immortal Zugzwang Game

Aron Nimzowitsch played the winning and losing sides in two of the most famous zugzwang combinations in history. GM Dejan Bojkov shows you the details.
12 min
5 Challenges

How To Win With Zugzwang: Zugzwang In The Engine Age

Zugzwang is most frequently seen in the endgame, but amazingly it can crop up in the middlegame as well and defeat the strongest chess engine in the world. GM Dejan Bojkov demonstrates how zugzwang can even defeat Stockfish!
16 min
5 Challenges

How To Win With Zugzwang

Endgames
5 Lessons
59 Minutes
25 Challenges
Released September 13, 2023

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