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In chess, the Muzio Gambit, sometimes called the Polerio Gambit, is an opening line in the King's Gambit in which White sacrifices a knight for a large lead in development and attacking chances. It begins with the moves:
This is a list of chess openings that are gambits. ... Hamppe-Muzio Gambit – C25 – 1.e4 e5 2.Nc3 Nc6 3.f4 exf4 4.Nf3 g5 5.Bc4 g4 6.0-0 [322] References
Giulio Cesare Polerio (c. 1555, [1] – c. 1610; reconstruction of places and dates by Adriano Chicco [2] [3] [4]) was an Italian chess theoretician and player.. Name affixes used for him are l'Apruzzese, [5] Giu[o]lio Cesare da Lanciano (Salvio/Walker [6]), and Lancianese, [7] because he was born in Lanciano, a town in the province of Chieti of the region Abruzzo of Italy.
Sarratt was renowned as a player and author and adopted the title "Professor of Chess". [1] He was the first professional player to teach chess in England. [2] He introduced into England the chess rule that a stalemate is a draw, which was commonly used on the continent of Europe. [3] He coined with his works of 1813 and 1821 the term Muzio Gambit.
Ghulam Kassim (birth date unknown, died Madras 1844) was an Indian chess player and author of the early 19th century, best known today for a variation of the King's Gambit that bears his name. In colonial India, several native forms of chess were popular; Ghulam Kassim was one of the first Indian players to achieve a degree of proficiency at ...
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Chess pieces – two armies of 16 chess pieces, one army designated "white", the other "black". Each player controls one of the armies for the entire game. The pieces in each army include: 1 king – most important piece, and one of the weakest (until the endgame). The object of the game is checkmate, by placing the enemy king in check in a way ...
The King's Fianchetto Opening [1] or Benko Opening [2] (also known as the Rat Opening, [3] Hungarian Opening, or Bilek Opening) is a chess opening characterized by the move: 1. g3. White's 1.g3 ranks as the fifth most popular opening move, but it is far less popular than 1.e4, 1.d4, 1.c4 and 1.Nf3. It is usually followed by 2.Bg2, fianchettoing ...