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open game

noun

  1. chess a relatively simple game involving open ranks and files, permitting tactical play, and usually following symmetrical development Compare closed game
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Life had been for him an open game, and he had played for high stakes.

Making it four downs instead of three has led to a more open game, and the flying wedge has been done away with altogether.

The first suggestion of a recognition by the football rules committee of any need of a more open game came in 1903.

The open game has come to stay, and attempts to further restrict it have met with strong opposition.

It is doubtful if two such finished exponents of the open game have ever met before or since.

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