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The gambit is playable both ways, but not with the hope of retaining the captured spearman for a material advantage. - (Beasts of Gor, Chapter 4, Sentence #215)

This will contest the center and prohibit the advance of the opposing Spearman. Yellow's next move, of course, is to advance the Ubara's Tarnsman's Spearman to Ubara's Tarnsman Five, attacking red's defending Spearman. Red then elects to accept or decline the gambit, accepting by capturing the Ubara's Tarnsman's Spearman, but surrendering the center in doing so, or declining the gambit, by defending his spearman, and thus constricting his position. The gambit is playable both ways, but not with the hope of retaining the captured spearman for a material advantage. We wished Centius to move the Ubara's Spearman to Ubara Five, so that Scormus might play the Ubara's Tarnsman's Spearman to Ubara's Tarnsman Five. We were then eager to see if Centius would play the gambit accepted or declined. "Does he not know his clock is open?" asked a man. - (Beasts of Gor)