gambit

stratagème, manœuvre

Action préparée pour prendre un avantage sur les autres.

En anglais simple : A planned action intended to give you an advantage over others.

• Her opening gambit was a joke.
• The discount was a clever gambit to attract customers.
• His risky political gambit failed.

Synonymes : ploy, tactic, maneuver

Expressions courantes : opening gambit, political gambit, risky gambit

gambit

Coup d’ouverture aux échecs où l’on sacrifie une pièce pour obtenir une meilleure position.

En anglais simple : An opening chess move that gives up a piece to gain a better position.

• He opened with a gambit.
• She declined the gambit and protected her king.
• The gambit cost a pawn but gave him control of the center.

Expressions courantes : opening gambit, accept a gambit, decline a gambit

sacrifier

Abandonner volontairement une pièce aux échecs pour obtenir une meilleure position.

En anglais simple : To give up a chess piece deliberately to gain a better position.

• She chose to gambit a pawn.
• He gambited his knight to open an attack.
• Would you gambit a piece in this position?

Synonymes : sacrifice

Expressions courantes : gambit a pawn, gambit a knight, gambit a piece