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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 over time developed its theory and deployed it deliberately. The story depicts Grosvenor as often frustrated by opponents who are too obtuse to fall for ...
The metaphorical sense of the word as "opening move meant to gain advantage" was first recorded in English in 1855. [3] [4] Gambits are more commonly played by White. 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).
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.
Elizabeth Fremantle (born 1962) is an English novelist. Her published works include Queen's Gambit (2013), The Girl in the Glass Tower (2016) and the critically acclaimed thriller The Poison Bed (2018).
The contrasting three, where only the third has positive value, for example, The Three Little Pigs, two of whose houses are blown down by the Big Bad Wolf. The final or dialectical form of three, where, as with Goldilocks and her bowls of porridge, the first is wrong in one way, the second in an opposite way, and the third is "just right".
In Gambit, Piotti's restaurant is located on 13th Street, east of Second Avenue (of course, in Manhattan). [1] In "Poison à la Carte" , published two years earlier, the restaurant is on 14th Street, between Second and Third Avenues, thus west of Second Avenue. [ 2 ]
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.
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 ...