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8/29/2012 12:48pm
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I love that this became a chess thread. Are we agreed that gambit means "opening (involving, in chess, a sacrifice)" and not "smackdown"? (And if you "ran a gauntlet", you'd be the one in danger.)
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8/29/2012 2:06pm
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No, because chess was a red herring.
A gambetto means to trick your opponent into ending up on his ass, using your legs.
To run a gambit means to throw your opponent onto his ass by being deceptive.. In chess, this is done by sacrificing material. In Omega's context, he literally meant tossing you on your ass.
Or you should stop trying to debate definitions and semantics in a YMAS thread. -
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Posted On:
8/29/2012 5:24pm
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Last week, a friend of mine and I learned that we both played chess, so we played a game. I won in a few moves with classic dick strategy of going straight for the king with the queen along a diagonal within the first few moves of the game when the king's still surrounded by its own pieces. Is there a name for that?



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