Talk:Zwischenzug
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When and where was this game played? JPF 11:48, 12 Apr 2005 (UTC)
Am I missing something here, or does the discussion on the page not make any sense? It looks to me like anything Black can do will result in White mopping the floor with him. --Carnildo 03:34, 21 May 2005 (UTC)
- As far as I can tell, White can't stop Black from queening a pawn and getting an overwhelming material advantage. Recall that Black is moving down the board, and White is moving up the board, so White is nowhere near queening. --Fritzlein 04:56, 21 May 2005 (UTC)
- Yes, I see it now. I'd gotten the algebraic notation mixed up. --Carnildo 05:14, 21 May 2005 (UTC)
It would be better for white to force a draw here, which he can do with ease, rather than winning the second rook. So in that respect it isn't necessarily Zwischenzug. - Matt L
[edit] good example?
In my opinion, the game in the diagram doesn't illustrate what I think Zwischenzug is. I may be wrong, but I thought Zwischenzug came in two flavors:
1. as a tempo move. For instance, if a rook, bishop, or queen is attacking on a rank, file, or diagonal, (or a king attacking something) it moves to another square on that line and the opponent is in zugzwang.
2. pretty much as described in the first paragraph. For instance, your opponent forks two of your pieces. But you give check with one of them, opponent has to get out of check, then you rescue the other one.
To me, the game shown doesn't illustrate it. --Bubba73 23:13, 25 May 2005 (UTC)
- I agree that the position isn't a typical zwischenzug. Typically one is expecting a certain move (or one of a very small number of moves) and the zwischenzug is outside of that set of moves. But what is the expected move in the given sequence? White surely doesn't expect Black to queen the pawn and lose it. White just thinks he has defended adequately and is waiting for Black to make some other plan. Black's winning move is surprising, to be sure, and interferes with White's planned tactical sequence, but that seems to be a few croutons short of a salad.
- In my experience a zwischenzug interrupts a chain of "if I do X, he MUST do Y, and then I can do Z". It turns out that my opponent doesn't have to do Y, and I never get to do Z, but if I didn't think "he must do Y" then any move other than Y isn't really a zwischenzug. The thoguht process given in the article is a subtly different "if I do X, then he CAN'T do Y, or else I can do Z". Sure enough, the opponent DOESN'T do Y, so it isn't clear in what sense the move actually played is a zwischenzug. --Fritzlein 03:10, 27 May 2005 (UTC)
[edit] ....but the article still needs an example
I can see from the previous versions of the article that an incorrect example of zwischenzug was posted and then removed, but the example should have been edited or replaced. Completely getting rid of a section of an article without attempting to fix it isn't a very good thing to do on wikipedia.--67.184.163.248 18:11, 6 November 2005 (UTC)Ikiroid
