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Friday, February 28, 2014
The Ukrainian Gambit - by PATRICK CHAPPATTE - NYTimes
PATRICK CHAPPATTE
A
gambit
(from ancient
Italian
gambetto
, meaning tripping) is a
chess opening
in in which a player, most often
White
,
sacrifices
material
, usually a
pawn
, with the hope of achieving a resulting advantageous position.
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