Re: 1st Season Terminator TSCC - Queen's Gambit - 5 star poll - SPOILERS

Pete B wrote:
> In article <K1gsj.1$5z6.0@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>, JamesSquire@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 says...
>> George Avalos wrote:
>>> "Queen's Gambit"
>>> 2-11-08 T:TSCC
>>>
>>> 5 stars (Slav)
>>>
>>> 0-1 stars (Marshall)
>>>
>>> -George 
>>>
>>>
>> I give it 4 out of 5.
>>
>> I like this show so far, but a tiny nit to pick: "Zugswang" doesn't
mean 
>> anything like what John Connor said it meant.  If writers are going to 
>> use sophisticated terminology, they should do their homework and use it

>> correctly, especially since the term is not unique to chess.
>>
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zugzwang
> 
> He ment they had been pressured to sacrifice their queen - sounds like 
> the correct usage to me.

I don't buy it.  Never mind that it didn't work out too well for the one 
doing the pressuring.

Pressuring someone to sacrifice their queen sounds really unlikely.

Furthermore, that is not quite the correct usage.  "Pressure" is too 
soft a term for it.  "Forced" is more like it.
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