Opening maneuver

Usage examples of gambit.

Pyx gambit, though excellent, may have to be set aside, for now, so that he may mass all his efforts on rebuttal of the Asiento allegations.

The gambit is playable both ways, but not with the hope of retaining the captured spearman for a material advantage.

Bloom, and every time Prew tried something they were very interested in seeing how it would work out and he could hear them discussing its prospects of success behind him as if they were watching the trying of a new gambit in a chess game.

Charles was swapping conversational gambits with the governor, a grizzled Scotsman who wanted to hear news from Home, trying to find out if they could hire islanders to guide them into the jungle.

DeLillo has no time for anarchic pratfalls, Aristophanic gambits, non sequiturs.

Had one of the local children really disappeared, or was that some gambit on the part of Crush Bonbon to start a controversy?

Was even this wild gambit, my flight into Dorsetshire, part of her mysterious design?

Oh, he knew the rules, and the rudiments, and even some of the refinements, but he had no grasp whatsoever of such instruments as the gambit, the knight fork, or the defrocked bishop, and while he was all too eager to demonstrate he knew how to castle, he castled kingside when he should have castled queenside, and he castled either side when he did not need to castle at all.

The row below showed twenty Barbies uniformed as flight attendants and nurses, which must have represented the entire gambit of career options available to her.

The fact that Burrows was a layman who had invented a science now practised by professionals was another familiar gambit.

Iraq found itself in both 1990 and 1994--which prompted the invasion of Kuwait and the later threat to Kuwait, both of which were extremely risky gambits designed to stave off what he perceived to be dire threats, even though they hardly appeared as such to the rest of the world.

Even street urchins in dusty backtrail villages like Fallingtree rise above such crude gambits.

Because this was it: an interval, a space, in which the toad-squatting guns, the panting men and the trembling horses paused, amphitheatric about the embattled land, beneath the fading fury of the smoke and the puny yelling, and permitted the sorry business which had dragged on for three years now to be congealed into an irrevocable instant and put to an irrevocable gambit, not by two regiments or two batteries or even two generals, but by two locomotives.

His latest theoretical gambit was dramatic and likely to be ineffective, but it had shown some small promise in monkey studies, and he wanted to try it on a human patient under carefully controlled conditions.

Spock chewed carefully and nodded warily, assessing the captain's counteropening gambit.