"Stafford gambit" meaning in English

See Stafford gambit in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: Stafford gambits [plural]
Etymology: Named after Joseph C. Stafford who famously won a correspondence game with this opening in 1950. Head templates: {{en-noun}} Stafford gambit (plural Stafford gambits)
  1. A chess opening deriving from the Petrov Defence (1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nf6) after which black gives up its king's pawn and plays the queen's knight to the C file (3. Nxe5 Nc6), especially when followed by (4. Nxc6 dxc6). Categories (topical): Chess openings

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for Stafford gambit meaning in English (1.5kB)

{
  "etymology_text": "Named after Joseph C. Stafford who famously won a correspondence game with this opening in 1950.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "Stafford gambits",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "Stafford gambit (plural Stafford gambits)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with topic categories using raw markup",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with topic categories using raw markup",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys",
          "parents": [
            "Terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Chess openings",
          "orig": "en:Chess openings",
          "parents": [
            "Chess",
            "Board games",
            "Tabletop games",
            "Games",
            "Recreation",
            "Human activity",
            "Human behaviour",
            "Human",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A chess opening deriving from the Petrov Defence (1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nf6) after which black gives up its king's pawn and plays the queen's knight to the C file (3. Nxe5 Nc6), especially when followed by (4. Nxc6 dxc6)."
      ],
      "id": "en-Stafford_gambit-en-noun-6kiTvxQd",
      "links": [
        [
          "chess",
          "chess"
        ],
        [
          "opening",
          "opening"
        ],
        [
          "Petrov Defence",
          "Petrov Defence"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "Stafford gambit"
}
{
  "etymology_text": "Named after Joseph C. Stafford who famously won a correspondence game with this opening in 1950.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "Stafford gambits",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "Stafford gambit (plural Stafford gambits)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English entries with topic categories using raw markup",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys",
        "en:Chess openings"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A chess opening deriving from the Petrov Defence (1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nf6) after which black gives up its king's pawn and plays the queen's knight to the C file (3. Nxe5 Nc6), especially when followed by (4. Nxc6 dxc6)."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "chess",
          "chess"
        ],
        [
          "opening",
          "opening"
        ],
        [
          "Petrov Defence",
          "Petrov Defence"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "Stafford gambit"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-20 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (1d5a7d1 and 304864d). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.