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Another German named situation is zwischenzug, which is an intermediate move. If your opponent makes a threat against your piece, instead of making the expecte
by mantap 7y ago
Another German named situation is zwischenzug, which is an intermediate move.
If your opponent makes a threat against your piece, instead of making the expected move to block, move, capture, etc; you can instead temporarily threaten one of your opponent's pieces elsewhere as long as it has a greater value, this forces your opponent to suddenly act defensively to protect their piece, which if exploited correctly can put you in a better position. You will still have to answer your opponent's original attack and defend your original piece but now you have some extra compensation.
Basically you are exploiting the fact that your opponent thought they had played a forcing move and so they probably didn't consider the effect on other parts of the board.
- Thorentis 7y agoHuh, didn't know there was a name for this. This is one of my go-to strategies in Chess, and I thought it was just a tactic people would use. Chess is such a studied game that I suspect almost all tactics have names by now!
- have_faith 7y agoI think Intermezzo is also used for that situation, as least here in England. We use a mix of German, French and Italian names for various situations.
- Scarblac 7y agoAnd if the Zwischenzug is a move that puts a piece somewhere where it can be easily captured (perhaps because it could already be, or because there are already lots of pieces attacked and the opponent can only take one at a time) then it is called a _desperado_.