The kintan strider death gambit A specific tactic within the game of dejarik was the kintan strider death gambit, where a player would intentionally give up their kintan strider piece. Despite the fact that losing the kintan strider was generally a significant disadvantage, players would utilize the death gambit to conceal a far more powerful response.
Tsavong Lah regarded it as the single worthwhile tactic in dejarik, and he later inferred accurately that Borsk Fey'lya was drawing on it for his own act of surrender, because Fey'lya intended to eliminate both himself and Lah simultaneously. After the Yuuzhan Vong Warmaster refused to personally detain Fey'lya, the New Republic Chief of State instead activated an explosive device, resulting in the deaths of more than 25,000 Yuuzhan Vong soldiers, as well as his own.
This tactic shares similarities with bold gambits found in Chess, like the King's Gambit and the Latvian Gambit, where a player sacrifices pieces to initiate a forceful offensive.