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My trouble is to understand why, by the time that the Lady Essex came to her with her problem, Anne had not exhausted all the gambits in flummery that were at the command of the preposterous Dr Forman. The connexion with Dr Forman was part of the legacy left Anne by Dr Turner.
"But it does, you know, make one a bit frightened, this place, seeing the way people get suddenly bowled over. There were the Gambits a fortnight ago he was in work and they were as fit as anything ... they haven't had any food now for three days." "There ain't anything to be frightened about," Stephen said slowly. "No, I know. But Stephen, suppose I don't get work, after all.
The gambits of the great game of love are strangely limited, and there is little variation in the after-play. If it were not for the personal share we take, such doings would lack interest by reason of their monotony, by their too close resemblance to the primeval type.
And here was Connie going to pictures with him, and the British Museum, and to visit the poor fellow in the nursing home. It was true that the aunt could never detect the smallest sign of love-making between them. And Connie was always putting forward that Mr. Sorell taught her Greek. As if that kind of thing wasn't one of the best and oldest gambits in the great game of matrimony!
He soon mastered the moves and the chief gambits and commoner closing positions, and began to beat the Vicar. But then the cylindrical contours of the opposite king began to resemble Pawkins standing up and gasping ineffectually against check-mate, and Hapley decided to give up chess. Perhaps the study of some new branch of science would after all be better diversion.
He soon mastered the moves and the chief gambits and commoner closing positions, and began to beat the Vicar. But then the cylindrical contours of the opposite king began to resemble Pawkins standing up and gasping ineffectually against Check-mate, and Hapley decided to give up chess. Perhaps the study of some new branch of science would after all be better diversion.
He sat down by the open window and drummed on the table and meditated on his next step while Annie vanished to get his tea. After all, things didn't seem so bad with Miriam. He tried over several gambits in imagination. "Unusual name," he said as Annie laid a cloth before him. Annie looked interrogation. "Polly. Polly & Larkins. Real, I suppose?" "Polly's my sister's name. She married a Mr.
The gambits of feeling, senses, and logic were even fallible when working together.
These gambits may be classed under what are, in common phrase, termed "open" or "close" games; an open game being where the pieces are brought out into more immediate engagement, a close game where the pawns interlock, and the pieces can less easily issue to the attack. An instance of the former may be found in the Allgaier, of the latter in Philidor's Defence.
But the tendency has been, ever since the celebrated and magnificent matches of the two greatest chess geniuses which England and France have ever known, McDonnel and De la Bourdonnais, to cultivate the bolder and more exciting open gambits. And under the lead of Paul Morphy this tendency is likely to be inaugurated as the rule of modern chess.
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