"There are three types of chess positions: either none, one, or both of the players would be at a disadvantage if it were their turn to move. The great majority of positions are of the first type. In chess literature, most writers call positions of the second type zugzwang, and the third type reciprocal zugzwang or mutual zugzwang. "
The Wikipedia article goes on to say that other authors describe the second type as a "squeeze" -- I think Kemp uses that term -- and only the mutual or reciprocal kind as a true "zugzwang". I can't remember if it was GM Edmar Mednis or IM Rafael Klovsky who told me many years ago that it's only the mutual scenario that qualifies as a "true" zugzwang, but I'm pretty sure it was one or both of them. Either way, the subject has divided chess authors almost since inception of the term in the first place. You can see the Wikipedia article on Immortal Zugzwang, for instance, which is one of the earliest famous examples of "zugzwang" and is featured in Nimzovitch's classic treatise "My System", and at the same time, many other famous players like IM Andy Soltis and others disagreed with the use of the term for that game.
A great article with some really beautiful examples of zugzwang is: https://www.chesshistory.com/winter/extra/zugzwang.html. There's a very nice discussion at the end as well of a disagreement along just these lines as to what truly constitutes zugzwang, between Hooper and Myers.
When was this? Took the train (S1) last week and every single screen at the stations and in the train explains this in detail and there are probably 20 announcements both in German and English telling everybody which coach goes to the airport and which to Freising.
Those announcements in English have been in place for 20 years. Neither train to Munich airport (S1, S8) goes to cattle farms. Tourists can get confused if they're unaware in which part of the train they sit.
The problem is that websites don't respect the browser language but translate based on IP. Which is stupid for people who want to read the original English content in English and not their native language.
Not to say that ServiceNow is great, but not being able to type the number into the search bar (top right) sounds more like a user issue than anything else.
What? Unless someone actively removed the search field, you should have quite a big search field in the top right corner, where you can basically search for anything you'd need.
"No complete solution for chess in either of the two senses is known, nor is it expected that chess will be solved in the near future (if ever)".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solving_chess
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