Mined Squares
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Corresponding squares are squares of mutual zugzwang. When there is only one pair of corresponding squares they are called mined squares (Dvoretsky 2003:87). A player will fall into zugzwang if he moves his king onto the square and his opponent is able to move onto the corresponding square. In the diagram on the right, if either king moves onto the square marked with the dot of the same color, he falls into zugzwang if the other king moves into the mined square near him (Dvoretsky 2006:19).
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Famous quotes containing the word squares:
“And New York is the most beautiful city in the world? It is not far from it. No urban night is like the night there.... Squares after squares of flame, set up and cut into the aether. Here is our poetry, for we have pulled down the stars to our will.”
—Ezra Pound (1885–1972)