Gambit
A gambit (from ancient Italian gambetto, meaning "to trip") is a chess opening in which a player, more 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 (1.d4 d5 2.c4), and Evans Gambit (1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Bc5 4.b4). A gambit used by Black may also be called a gambit (e.g. the Latvian Gambit—1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 f5 or Englund Gambit—1.d4 e5), but is sometimes called a "countergambit" (e.g. the Albin Countergambit—1.d4 d5 2.c4 e5 and Greco Counter-Gambit, an old-fashioned name for the Latvian Gambit).
The word "gambit" was originally applied to chess openings in 1561 by Spanish priest Ruy López de Segura, from an Italian expression dare il gambetto (to put a leg forward in order to trip someone). Lopez studied this maneuver, and so the Italian word gained the Spanish form gambito that led to French gambit, which has influenced the English spelling of the word. The broader sense of "opening move meant to gain advantage" was first recorded in English in 1855.
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 C. Its documentation claims conformance to the R4RS, R5RS, and IEEE standards, as well as several SRFIs. Gambit was first released 1988, and Gambit-C (that is, Gambit with the C backend) was first released 1994.
Termite Scheme
Termite Scheme is a variant of Scheme implemented on top of Gambit-C. Termite is intended for distributed computing, it offers a simple and powerful message-passing model of concurrency, inspired by that of Erlang.
C++ and Objective-C integration
While the compiler itself produces solely C code, it has full integration support for C++ and Objective-C compilers such as GCC. Thus, software written in Gambit-C can contain C++ or Objective-C code, and can fully integrate with corresponding libraries.
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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 fellow opponents.
The game originally debuted at the ORIGINS convention held in Columbus, Ohio in 2005. It was noted for allowing up to ten players per game.
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Place
Place may refer to:
Surname
Geography
- Place (street name), implies a cul-de-sac
- Census-designated place, a populated area lacking its own municipal government
- Incorporated place, a populated area with its own municipal government
- Place House, a 16th-century mansion largely remodelled in the 19th century, in Fowey, Cornwall
- Prideaux Place, an Elizabethan mansion in Padstow, Cornwall
- Place House, a 19th-century mansion on the site of a medieval priory, in St Anthony in Roseland, Cornwall
Places (Casiopea album)
PLACES is the thirty-seventh album by the jazz fusion group Casiopea recorded and released in 2003.
Track listing
Personnel
CASIOPEA are
Supported
Production
Kyuki Sera (2), Takashi Koike (3), Yoshihiro Naruse(1969) (4), Akira Jimbo (5), Paul Cunningham (6), Minoru Mukaiya (7), Yoshihiro Naruse(1965) (8), Minoru Mukaiya (9), Yoshihiro Naruse(1961) (10), Joseph Sohm (11), Takashi Sato (12)
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Places (Georgie James album)
Places is the lone album by the Washington, D.C. indie rock band Georgie James, released on September 25, 2007. It includes the singles "Need Your Needs" and "Cake Parade." Guest musicians include Andrew Black (The Explosion), T.J. Lipple (Aloha), Tony Cavallario (Aloha) and Matthew Gengler (Aloha). The artwork for the album was designed by the band and Zack Nipper.
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