Stalemate, Zugzwang and a long Middle Game

Stalemate, Zugzwang and a long Middle GameComment is Freed is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. ‘To say that we are closer to victory today is to believe in the face of the evidence, the optimists who have been wrong in the past. To say that we are mired in stalemate seems the only realistic, yet unsatisfactory, conclusion. It is increasingly clear to this reporter that the only rational way out then will be to negotiate, not as victors, but as an honorable people who lived up to their pledge to defend democracy, and did the best they could.’

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