Zugzwang, Skewer, Royal Fork and Indian Defence are all terms associated with which board game?
Immortal Zugzwang Game checkmates White. Immortal Zugzwang Game The Immortal Zugzwang Game is a chess game between Friedrich Sämisch and Aron Nimzowitsch, played in Copenhagen in March 1923. It gained its name because the final position is sometimes considered a rare instance of zugzwang occurring in the middlegame. According to Nimzowitsch, writing in the "Wiener Schachzeitung" in 1925, this term originated in "Danish chess circles". White: Friedrich Sämisch Black: Aron Nimzowitsch Opening: Queen's Indian Defense ("ECO" E17) 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nf3 b6 4. g3 Bb7 5. Bg2 Be7 6. Nc3 0-0 7. 0-0 d5 8. Ne5 c6 9. cxd5?!
Immortal Zugzwang Game with Saemisch gaining some breathing space. But, secondly, the game doesn't constitute a true zugzwang because at the very end Nimzovich had a threat to win his opponent's queen. What makes zugzwang such a painful death is that the deceased is executed not by a threat but by his own suicide." Similarly, Wolfgang Heidenfeld wrote, ""zugzwang", in the proper meaning of the term, does not enter into the game at any stage. In the final position Black threatens [...R5f3], against which White has no reply." Raymond Keene wrote in his biography of Nimzowitsch, "This is the so-called 'Immortal Zugzwang Game'.