Meaning

1 senses
  1. A tactical move which interrupts the execution of the current plan.

    2002, Eric Schiller, Standard Chess Openings, second edition, Cardoza Publishing, New York; Game (132). After 12.g4 Be6; Black's 11th move becomes a zwischenzug to provoke another White pawn weakness.

Origin

From German Zwischenzug, from zwischen (“between”) + Zug (“move”).

From German Zwischenzug, from zwischen (“between”) + Zug (“move”).

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Forms

plural: zwischenzugs
Singularzwischenzug
Pluralzwischenzugs

regular

Word family

2 related words

See also

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