Crossword-Solution: GAMBITS
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| Word | Anagrams | |
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| GAMBITS | anagram | GAMBIST |
We have 6 clues for the answer “GAMBITS”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Chess ploys | 1 answer |
| Initial moves in a battle of wits | 1 answer |
| Opening maneuvers | 1 answer |
| Sacrificial stratagems | 1 answer |
| Opening moves | 2 answers |
| Stratagems | 7 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
RETEA
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with GAMBITS (5)
Every one has learned the gambits: they do not have to be explained, nor their importance demonstrated.
These gambits may be classed under what are, in common phrase, termed "open" or "close" games; an open game being where the pieces are brought out into more immediate engagement,--a close game where the pawns interlock, and the pieces can less easily issue to the attack.
But the tendency has been, ever since the celebrated and magnificent matches of the two greatest chess geniuses which England and France have ever known, McDonnel and De la Bourdonnais, to cultivate the bolder and more exciting open gambits.
The openings, the gambits, which were to lead them to the very heart of the game, were at first masked and hesitating.
Pierce has discovered a tenth muse and writes impassioned verses to the Goddess of Chess whom he apostrophises as 'Sublime Caissa'! Zukertort and Steinitz are his heroes, and he is as melodious on mates as he is graceful on gambits.
Quotes with GAMBITS (1)
An endless series of gambits backed by gigantic investments encouraged young people entering the online world for the first time to create standardized presences on sites like Facebook. Commercial interests promoted the widespread adoption of standardized designs like the blog, and these designs encouraged pseudonymity in at least some aspects of their designs, such as comments, instead of the proud extroversion that characterized the first wave of web culture. Instead of peo…
Where this answer appears
Appears in: CrosSynergy, Newsday, NYT.
Used 4 times in crossword archives (1976–2023).