Gambit (disambiguation)

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A gambit is a type of chess opening move in which material (one of the pieces on the board, in play) is sacrificed in order to achieve a better position.

Gambit may also refer to:

Fiction

• Gambit (comics), a fictional comic book superhero and member of the X-Men in the Marvel Universe
• Gambit (1966 film), a 1966 film starring Michael Caine and Shirley MacLaine
• Gambit (2012 film), a remake of the 1966 film
• Gambit, a planned film about the comic book superhero; see Development of Gambit
• "Gambit", an episode of Blake's 7
• Gambit (novel), a 1962 Nero Wolfe detective novel by Rex Stout
• "Gambit" (Star Trek: The Next Generation), a 1993 two-part, seventh-season episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation
• Mike Gambit, a character in The New Avengers TV series

Technology

• Gambit (forum), a non-profit gambling industry organisation
• Gambit (Scheme implementation), an implementation of the Scheme programming language
• Gambit system, a party control system implemented in the Final Fantasy XII and Final Fantasy XII: Revenant Wings video game
• KH-7 Gambit, a reconnaissance satellite used by the United States from July 1963 to June 1967
• KH-8 Gambit 3, a long-lived series of reconnaissance satellites used by the United States from July 1966 to April 1984

Entertainment

• Gambit (USA game show), based on the card game blackjack
• Gambit (UK game show), UK version based on the card game blackjack
• The Gambit (born 1982), rapper and record producer
• The Gambit (album) by Shelly Manne & His Men
• Opening gambit, a short stand-alone action sequence starting many episodes of MacGyver

Other

• Gambit, a lexical item, or unit
• Gambit Publications, a publisher of chess books
• Gambit (roller coaster), a former roller coaster at Japanese amusement park, Thrill Valley
• Gambit (strategy card game), a strategy card game created by GB Company*
• Gambit Weekly, a New Orleans-based newspaper
• Operation Gambit, a part of Operation Neptune
• Pascal's Gambit, a philosophy that humanity should believe in God because they have nothing to lose and everything to gain by doing so.