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Look up: Gambit

  1. gambit
    [n] - an opening remark intended to secure an advantage for the speaker 2. [n] - a chess move early in the game in which the player sacrifices minor pieces in order to obtain an advantageous position
    Found on http://www.webdictionary.co.uk/definitio

  2. Gambit
    Gam'bit noun [ French gambit , confer Italian gambitto gambit, a tripping up. See Gambol , noun ] (Chess Playing) A mode of opening the game, in which a pawn is sacrificed to gain an attacking position.
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/G/7

  3. gambit
    ploy noun an opening remark intended to secure an advantage for the speaker
    Found on http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/web

  4. gambit
    noun a chess move early in the game in which the player sacrifices minor pieces in order to obtain an advantageous position
    Found on http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/web

  5. Gambit
    • (n.) A mode of opening the game, in which a pawn is sacrificed to gain an attacking position.
    Found on http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning

  6. gambit
    (from the article `chess`) There followed a proliferation of speculative pawn sacrifices in the opening, called gambits, in order to achieve rapid mobilization and open lines ...
    Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/g/6

  7. Gambit
    (language) A variant of Scheme R3.99 supporting the future construct of Multilisp by Marc Feeley (feeley@iro.umontreal.ca). 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 confo...
    Found on http://foldoc.org/Gambit

  8. Gambit
    In chess, a gambit is an opening move in which a chessman, usually a pawn, is sacrificed to secure an advantageous position.
    Found on http://www.probertencyclopaedia.com/brow

  9. Gambit
    A `gambit` (from ancient Italian gambetto, meaning tripping) is a chess opening in which a player, most often White, sacrifices material, usually a pawn, with the hope of achieving a resulting advantageous position. Some well-known examples are the King`s Gambit (1.e4 e5 2.f4), Queen`s Gambit...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gambit

  10. Gambit
    (comics) image= Newgambit.jpg --> `Gambit` (`Remy Etienne LeBeau<ref name="Uncanny#266"/>`) is a fictional character, a Marvel Comics superhero that has been a member of the X-Men. Created by writer Chris Claremont and artist date=July 2011-->, the character first appeared briefl...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gambit

  11. Gambit
    (game show) `Gambit` is a television game show, created by Wayne Cruseturner and produced by Heatter-Quigley Productions, that originally ran on CBS from September 4, 1972 to December 10, 1976. A slightly retooled version, Las Vegas Gambit, aired on NBC from October 27, 1980 to ...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gambit

  12. Gambit
    (disambiguation) A `gambit` is a chess opening in which material is sacrificed in order to achieve a better position. `Gambit` may also refer to: Fiction : Technology: Entertainment: Other:
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gambit

  13. Gambit
    (novel) `Gambit` is a Nero Wolfe detective novel by Rex Stout, first published by the Viking Press in 1962. Plot introduction: In "Poison à la Carte", published two years earlier, the restaurant is on 14th Street, between Second and Third Avenues, thus west of Secon...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gambit

  14. Gambit
    (Scheme implementation) `Gambit`, also called Gambit-C, is a free software Scheme implementation, consisting of a Scheme interpreter, and a compiler which compiles Scheme to accessdate=2010-03-06-->--> claims conformance to the R<sup>4</sup>RS, R<sup>5</sup>RS, and IEEE standards,...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gambit

  15. Gambit
    (strategy card game) `Gambit` is a strategy card game created by GB Company. It consists of character cards that are assigned "hit points" and a variety of equipment, attack and defense cards. The object of the game is to be the lone survivor by eliminating the hit points of your fe...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gambit

  16. Gambit
    (forum) -->) and `gamebling` industries. The Forum conducts periodic meetings on particular themes and a series of invitation-only Leadership Forums. The Steering Committee is led by Dr. Stefan Szymanski, Associate Dean, MBA Programs, Cass Business School and a Cass Executive MBA alumnus, Gar...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gambit



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11 February 2012

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On 11th February, 1858, a 14 year old French peasant girl, Bernadette Soubirous claimed to have seen visions of the Virgin Mary at her native Lourdes. She also revealed that the waters of a spring near a grotto in Lourdes had been given healing powers by the Virgin. Eventually, the Roman Catholic church decided that the visions were authentic. Franz Werfel wrote the novel, Song of Bernadette, based on the story of Bernadette's visions. read more

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