| 单词 | odds receiver |
| 释义 | > as lemmasodds receiver odds receiver n. Chess ΚΠ 1875 in City of London Chess Mag. 2 (1876) 15 Our friend the odds receiver will see that we are chary of bringing our Queen out early. 1900 Westm. Gaz. 21 Apr. 3/3 We have played games by the hundred giving the odds of the QR, and have invariably made use of the right of castling QR without the least objection from the odds receiver. 1962 Chess Rev. Sept. 258/3 Black could probably—but not by any method to be expected of an odds-receiver—escape. He took the Black Pawn with his King. 2000 P. J. Tamburro Learn Chess from Greats 142/1 The odds receiver gets so convinced that the king is invincible that the wager is easily sent to double or nothing when the odds giver sarcastically says that he can beat the lone king. < as lemmas |
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