Associations to the word «Zugzwang»

Wiktionary

ZUGZWANG, noun. (chess) A situation in which a player is forced to make a disadvantageous move.
ZUGZWANG, noun. In figurative uses

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope