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Definition, Meaning & Synonyms | English word GAMBIT
GAMBIT
Definitions of GAMBIT
- Any ploy or stratagem.
- A remark intended to open a conversation.
- (chess) An opening in chess in which a minor piece or a pawn is sacrificed to gain an advantage.
- (chess, transitive) To sacrifice (a pawn or minor piece) to gain an advantage.
Number of letters
6
Is palindrome
No
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Examples of Using GAMBIT in a Sentence
- Time gain: the player accepting the gambit must take time to procure the sacrificed material and possibly must use more time to reorganize their pieces after the material is taken.
- The gambit is flawed in that being ridiculed does not necessarily correlate with being right and that many people who have been ridiculed in history were, in fact, wrong.
- This variation takes the sting out of White's attack by returning the gambit pawn and exchanging queens, and according to Fine, the resulting simplified position "is psychologically depressing for the gambit player" whose intent is usually an aggressive attack.
- However, when Maple Leafs owner Stafford Smythe got wind of this gambit, he pressured the league into vetoing it, forcing Lindsay to stay retired.
- It introduced several innovations to the series: an open world; a seamless battle system; a controllable camera; a customizable "gambit" system, which lets the player control the artificial intelligence (AI) of characters in battle; a "license" system, which determines what abilities and equipment can be used by characters; and hunting side quests, which allows the player to find and defeat increasingly difficult monsters in the game's open world.
- However, MacArthur's gambit backfired, as widespread shock at the Hagerty Incident helped force prime minister Nobusuke Kishi to cancel Eisenhower's visit, for fears that his safety could not be guaranteed.
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