Doesn’t seem like anyone’s aggressively missing the point this time, thanks for engaging :)
I’m not sure I understand your hypothetical scenario. Is our author’s message “no matter what you are doing, play the King’s Gambit” or “no matter what you are doing, do something analogous to the King’s Gambit”?
Praise of the king’s gambit as a chess opening, mixed with descriptions of generalized strategies for playing adversarial games, in ways that subtly but pervasively imply that it’s a central case of game-playing. This is likely to cause readers, on the margin, to notice games where something like the King’s Gambit is available and ignore the ones where it’s inapplicable.
Doesn’t seem like anyone’s aggressively missing the point this time, thanks for engaging :)
Praise of the king’s gambit as a chess opening, mixed with descriptions of generalized strategies for playing adversarial games, in ways that subtly but pervasively imply that it’s a central case of game-playing. This is likely to cause readers, on the margin, to notice games where something like the King’s Gambit is available and ignore the ones where it’s inapplicable.