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A **Zwischenzug** (intermezzo, intermediate or in-between move) is a chess tactic related move, which is played instead of an obvious looking, expected move, commonly a recapture, posing an immediate threat the opponent must respond to, ideally changing the situation to the player's advantage. The term Zwischenzug was coined in 1933 by [|Fred Reinfeld] and [|Irving Chernev] in their book //Chess Strategy and Tactics//.

Chess programs may consider some kinds of Zwischenzug early, after a recapture does not fail-high, or does not improve alpha at PV-nodes. Most common is a check giving move even in quiescence search, a mate threatening move, or a otherwise attacking move considering discovered attacks.

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 * [|Zwischenzug from Wikipedia]
 * [|Top 10 chess: Tactical Motif X: ZwischenZug (In-Between Move)]
 * [|Entr'acte] - [|René Clair], 1924 (1), [|YouTube] Video

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