Zwischenzug

noun

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Noun
  1. 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."

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in-between move

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"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."

Etymology

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

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