Zugzwang

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Zugzwang is a situation that takes place when a player that has his turn to move is forced to make that move even if it will cause him a disadvantage. There are times when you can play in such a manner that you can bring your opponent in a zugzwang situation.

 

 White wins by bringing Black in a zugzwang position. This is the same example from the opposition article with a few pawns added  

1. Kc5-d5 Kc7-d7 2. c4-c5 Kd7-c7 3. c5-c6 Kc7-c8 4. Kd5-d6 Kc8-d8 5. c6-c7+ Kd8-c8 6. Kd6-c6 And voila the Black is official in a zugzwang position. If it wasn't the pawn at h7 then this would have been stalemate.But, that is not the case. White has intentionally lead the game to a zugzwang position for Back. Now Black is forced to move its free pawn.
Black is now in a zugzwang position. The black king is stucked at c8 and thus Black has to move his pawn.    

6... h7-h6 7. g5:h6 ( Or 6... h7-h5 7.g5:h6(by enpassant) ) 7... g6-g5 8. h6-h7 g5-g4 9. h7-h8checkmate The pawn is promoted into a rook and it's checkmate for the black king ; White wins.

 The final position on the chess board. Black is now checkmated

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