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Book club editions are sometimes thinner and always taller (usually a quarter of an inch) than first editions. Book club editions are bound in cardboard, and first editions are bound in cloth (or have at least a cloth spine). [12] 1963, London: Collins Crime Club, April 29, 1963, hardcover; 1964, New York: Bantam #F2731, February 1964 ...
An example of a sound gambit is the Scotch Gambit: 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.d4 exd4 4.Bc4. Here Black can force White to sacrifice a pawn speculatively with 4...Bb4+, but White gets very good compensation for one pawn after 5.c3 dxc3 6.bxc3, or for two pawns after 6.0-0 inviting 6...cxb2 7.Bxb2, due to the development advantage and attacking chances ...
The Queen's Gambit is a 1983 American novel by Walter Tevis, exploring the life of fictional female chess prodigy Beth Harmon. A bildungsroman, or coming-of-age story, it covers themes of adoption, feminism, chess, drug addiction and alcoholism. The book was adapted for the 2020 Netflix miniseries of the same name.
For example, from X ' s point of view, the probability that the outcome of the present encounter is cd given that the previous encounter was cd is equal to , = (). Under these definitions, the iterated prisoner's dilemma qualifies as a stochastic process and M is a stochastic matrix , allowing all of the theory of stochastic processes to be ...
The gambit's most notable practitioner was its eponym, Pal Benko. Many of the world's strongest players have used it at one time or another, including former world champions Viswanathan Anand , Garry Kasparov , Veselin Topalov , Mikhail Tal , and Magnus Carlsen ; and grandmasters Vasyl Ivanchuk , Michael Adams , Alexei Shirov , Boris Gelfand ...
Benoni (Hebrew: בֶּן־אוֹנִי ; Ben-Oni) is an ancient Hebrew name, still occasionally used, meaning "son of my sorrow".It is a reference to the Biblical account of the dying Rachel giving birth to Benjamin, whom she named Ben-Oni.
Countergambit: A gambit played by Black, often in response to another gambit. Examples of this include the Albin Countergambit in response to the Queen's Gambit, the Falkbeer Countergambit in response to the King's Gambit, and the Greco Counter Gambit (the former name of the Latvian Gambit) in response to the King's Knight Opening.
Cambridge Gambit – B03 – 1.e4 Nf6 2.e5 Nd5 3.d4 d6 4.c4 Nb6 5.f4 g5 [9] Lasker Simul Gambit ... English Opening. Jaenisch Gambit – A10 – 1.c4 b5 [65]