Gambit (disambiguation)
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Look up gambit in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
A gambit is a chess opening in which something is sacrificed in order to achieve a better position, it also refers to a similar plan used outside of chess.
Gambit may also refer to:
In fiction:
- Gambit (comics), a fictional comic book superhero and member of the X-Men in the Marvel Universe
- Mike Gambit, a character in The New Avengers TV series.
- Gambit (film), a 1966 film starring Michael Caine and Shirley MacLaine as two criminals involved in an elaborate plot
- Gambit (novel), a Nero Wolfe detective novel by Rex Stout
- Gambit (novel), a military thriller novel by Karna Small Bodham
In media:
- Gambit Weekly, a New Orleans-based newspaper
- Gambit Publications, a publisher of chess books
In military history:
- Operation Gambit, a part of Operation Neptune
In philosophy:
- Pascal's Gambit = Pascal's Wager
In sports:
- The Maddux Gambit, a sacrifice in one game in order to achieve an advantage later in the sports season (or even, later in the player's career).
In technology:
- GAMBIT, the geometric modeling and mesh generation software distributed with FLUENT
- Gambit (satellite), a reconnaissance satellite used by the United States from July 1963 to June 1967
- KH-8 Gambit, a long-lived series of reconnaissance satellites used by the United States from July 1966 to April 1984
- Gambit system, a party control system implemented in the Final Fantasy XII and Final Fantasy XII: Revenant Wings video game.
- Gambit (Scheme implementation), an implementation of the Scheme programming language
- Gambit (software), software tools for game theory [1]
In television:
- Gambit (game show), a game show based on the card game blackjack
- "Gambit" (TNG episode), a two-part, seventh-season episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation
- Episode of Blake's 7
- The Gambit, a rapper and record producer
In linguistics:
- A gambit (linguistics) is a linguistic entity occurring in spoken conversation which does not forward this conversation towards a potential outcome.
 |
This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the same title. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. |
