0 a clever action in a game or other situation that is intended to achieve an advantage and usually involves taking a risk: --
1 a remark that you make to someone in order to start a conversation: --
2 something that you do or say that is intended to achieve an advantage and usually involves taking a risk: --
Pensioneering is like chess, you cannot play unless you know the gambits.
A second essential gambit is changing the subject.
On some occasions, however, the gambit can backfire.
In the first place, spiritual progress occurs in stages, rather than being an all-or-nothing gambit at the end of one life.
Given that the enquiry's ultimate objective is to assess value, a paradox about quality could provide an especially appropriate opening methodological gambit.
Already there is a humorous ambiguity about this opening gambit, with its plausibly authoritative, mock-documentary tone.
Later, about forty-five seconds in, you begin to hear two simultaneous lead voices, an arrangement gambit that also came about by accident.
In the absence of such accounts, this gambit seems merely to change the subject.
