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The benefit of the Grosvenor gambit is supposed to come on future hands, due to a loss of concentration by the player who was taken in by the gambit. The gambit was named after Philip Grosvenor, a fictional character in a short story by Frederick B. Turner published in The Bridge World , [ 1 ] who first discovered the gambit accidentally, and ...
Officially abandoned due to "poor weather conditions" [78] 1962 Something's Got to Give: George Cukor: Nunnally Johnson, Walter Bernstein: Henry T. Weinstein: Marilyn Monroe, Dean Martin: The film had shot for over a month when Monroe was fired, but she was later rehired but died before filming could resume. [79] 1971: A Glimpse of Tiger ...
The scene confirms that Channing Tatum’s Gambit not only survived the battle in the Void but also has a way out of the wasteland as an inter-dimensional portal can be seen … Gambit Lives!
Murphy's law [a] is an adage or epigram that is typically stated as: "Anything that can go wrong will go wrong.".. Though similar statements and concepts have been made over the course of history, the law itself was coined by, and named after, American aerospace engineer Edward A. Murphy Jr.; its exact origins are debated, but it is generally agreed it originated from Murphy and his team ...
The gambler's fallacy, also known as the Monte Carlo fallacy or the fallacy of the maturity of chances, is the belief that, if an event (whose occurrences are independent and identically distributed) has occurred less frequently than expected, it is more likely to happen again in the future (or vice versa).
Artwork may be damaged or destroyed as a result of various types of accidents. Damage accidents sometimes occur during exhibition or transportation. Attempts at restoration have also damaged artworks, either by expert restorers using techniques that are found decades later to be unsuitable or harmful, or simple botches by unskilled people.
As those of us who play Connections know, the game resets every day at 12 a.m. EST. So, if you missed out on guessing yesterday's Connections answers on Wednesday, February 5, and want to see ...
Some well-known examples of a gambit are the King's Gambit (1.e4 e5 2.f4) and Evans Gambit (1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Bc5 4.b4). A gambit employed by Black may also be named a gambit, e.g. the Latvian Gambit (1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 f5), or Englund Gambit (1.d4 e5); but is sometimes named a "countergambit", e.g. the Albin Countergambit (1.d4 d5 2.c4 e5 ...