Gambit : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: Gambit	by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
gambit n an opening remark intended to secure an advantage for the speaker Synonym(s): gambit, ploy a maneuver in a game or conversation Synonym(s): ploy, gambit, stratagem a chess move early in the game in which the player sacrifices minor pieces in order to obtain an advantageous position
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Gambit \Gam"bit\, n. [F. gambit, cf. It. gambitto gambit, a tripping up. See {Gambol}, n.] (Chess Playing) A mode of opening the game, in which a pawn is sacrificed to gain an attacking position.
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
Gambit A variant of {Scheme} R3.99 supporting the {future} construct of {Multilisp} by Marc Feeley . Implementation includes optimising compilers for {Macintosh} (with Toolbox and built-in editor) and {Motorola} {680x0} {Unix} systems and {HP300}, {BBN} {GP100} and {NeXT}. Version 2.0 conforms to the {IEEE} {Scheme} standard. Gambit used {PVM} as its intermediate language. {(ftp://acorn.cs.brandeis.edu/dist)}, {(ftp://ftp.cso.uiuc.edu/pub/amiga/fish/f7/ff764/Gambit_Terp)}. {(ftp://ftp.iro.umontreal.ca/pub/parallele/gambit/)}. Mailing list: gambit@trex.umontreal.ca. (1998-02-10)