{"id":16367,"date":"2006-01-17T20:22:41","date_gmt":"2006-01-18T04:22:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/neology\/2006\/01\/17\/zugzwang.html"},"modified":"2006-01-17T20:22:41","modified_gmt":"2006-01-18T04:22:41","slug":"zugzwang","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/2006\/01\/17\/zugzwang\/","title":{"rendered":"zugzwang"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<blockquote>\n<p>In chess, zugzwang (German for \"compulsion to move\" [...]) occurs when one player is put at a disadvantage because he or she has to make a move--the player would like to pass and make no move, but the fact that the player <em>must<\/em> make one means being forced into a weaker position.<\/p>\n<p>--Wikipedia entry on <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Zugzwang\">Zugzwang<\/a> as of 17 January 2006<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I may've encountered this term before; not sure.  But it's a good word.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> In chess, zugzwang (German for &#8220;compulsion to move&#8221; [&#8230;]) occurs when one player is put at a disadvantage because he or she has to make a move&#8211;the player would&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-to-me-words"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16367\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}