As the Greek Parliament votes another impossible-to-implement austerity package and the world’s financial centres and European banks hope for the best, have a look at these nice chess examples of ‘Greek gift sacrifices’ (if you click the buttons you can watch the moves unfold on the screen).
The idea echoes the Trojan Horse story – an impressive apparent gift which brings woe to the side accepting it. On the chess board it means a sacrifce of a piece (usually) near the enemy King, which cracks open the position for the attacked if accepted and wreaks quite a lot of damage even if it isn’t.
Or as Virgil put it in the Aeneid:
In the current Greek drama, who exactly is sacrificing what and to whom?
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