Greek gift

(see diagram) is a simple case where the Greek gift sacrifice works.

Greek gift sacrifices, or the threat of them, occur relatively frequently in play, especially at the lower levels.

The gifts from the natives were Greek gifts, he thought.

The Greek Gift is one of the oldest themes in chess.

The etymology of the phrase "Greek gift" in this context is not entirely clear.

Novices often lose to the sparkling Greek gift sacrifice.

These variations are typical of many Greek gift sacrifices, though the outcome is not always so clear-cut.

The Greek gift sacrifice is a canonical example.

The first is Life, sometimes called the Greek gift, for it is taken back day after day.

This is a Greek gift, for West must now present the declarer with an entry to the dummy.

He should see this Senate resolution as nothing but a Greek Gift designed to do him in."

Was it a Greek Gift?

Colle-O'Hanlon, Nice 1930, featuring one of the best-known examples of a Greek gift sacrifice, is especially famous.

Greek Gifts: Vision and Revision in Two Versions of Night of the Living Dead"."

Less commonly, a Greek gift sacrifice may be the prelude to a double bishop sacrifice, as seen in the game Lasker versus Bauer, Amsterdam 1889.

In chess, the Greek gift sacrifice (or classical bishop sacrifice) is a typical sacrifice of a bishop by White playing Bxh7+ or Black playing Bxh2+.

It was funny; before death had been conquered, it had been thought that memory would turn immortality into a Greek gift, because not even the human brain could remember a practical infinity of accumulated facts.

He likened this development to the unwelcome arrival of the Trojan Horse, a viewpoint which lay behind the title of his first book, The Greek Gift: Politics in a Cypriot Village (1975).