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6-Man Chess and Zugzwangs

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With 6-man Chess essentially solved, the available 6-man Endgame Tables (EGTs) have been scanned for zugzwang positions where, unusually, having the move is a disadvantage. Review statistics together with some highlights and positions are provided here: the complete information is available on the ICGA website. An outcome of the review is the observation that the definition of zugzwang should be revisited, if only because the presence of en passant capture moves gives rise to three new, asymmetric types of zugzwang.

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  1. School of Systems Engineering, University of Reading, UK

    Eiko Bleicher & Guy Haworth

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  1. Games and AI Group, MICC, Faculty of Humanities and Sciences, Universiteit Maastricht, Maastricht, The Netherlands

    H. Jaap van den Herik

  2. Institute for Knowledge and Agent Technology, Universiteit Maastricht,  

    Pieter Spronck

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Bleicher, E., Haworth, G. (2010). 6-Man Chess and Zugzwangs. In: van den Herik, H.J., Spronck, P. (eds) Advances in Computer Games. ACG 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6048. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-12993-3_12

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