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It requires a material sacrifice.

Used in chess, you might be right, although even in chess it requires only the risk of a material loss, since a gambit can be declined.

Outside of chess its use is metaphorical and the dictionary definition includes:

2 a (1) : a remark intended to start a conversation or make a telling point
(2) : TOPIC b : a calculated move : STRATAGEM

Gambit comes from Spanish (gambito) or Italian (gambetto), where it means the act of tripping someone.

There are other words in English from chess terminology that mean something slightly different, e.g. stalemate, checkmate, and endgame. For some reason, zugzwang hasn't made the transition.

It raises the question of whether any other game has supplied English with as many words, or at least, as many words that have lost their original connection to the game. The fact chess terms have so many counterparts in life may be a reflection of the extent that chess resembles life.

For those who don't know: fool's mate

I think Kasparov easily qualifies as a genius.

If the computer considers the library of Emmanuel Lasker, then it could be "more interesting". He was (in)famous for making -ahem- startling moves for someone of his caliber. Traditional chess theory would call them blunders, but they would serve to complicate the board to a degree that his opponents could not as easily determine the best moves before he could. He would thus confuse, recover, and gain advantage before they could adequately respond. A chess program designed to confuse more rigid chess programs could serve to benefit in the same way Lasker did.

Quick little tid-bit not in the savior's bio: In the late nineties there was a tournament held in Cuba to honor Capablanca. Everyone who was anyone (at the time) was there to pay their respects to one of the greatest players ever, Kasparov included. This was the last known public siting of Fischer among and by chess players. Kasparov saw him enter the room in his (Fischer's) cotton shorts and shirt and wide brimmed straw hat and decided to offer a game and his hand for a shake. Fischer just looked at him, looked at his hand and walked on by to take in a game with his old buddy Spassky

All I'm saying is while he may seem like a hero to people of the world for having the "guts" to take on the machines people in the know realize it's his ego. If he was really the mane that could pull Chess out of the swell it's in (yes, that's including throughout Europe contrary to popular belief) he would play more instead of holding out for money and endorsements and play who's ready to play not who he thinks will bring in the bucks when he does.

It falls to a scholar's mate.

Wants to reload the icons every move too on my 56k connection for some odd reason.

I assume we are talking about Scholar's Mate, which is very similar to Fool's Mate. The two are described on this page in some detail.

The answer, from that page, is "1.e4 e5 2.Bc4 Bc5 3.Qh5 Nf6 4.Qxf7#"