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* ''Literature/APracticalGuideToEvil'': the ending of each book resolves the current arc with one of these. In Book 1, each of the cadet company commanders has a plan to win the wargame; Book 2 ends with a three-way game of [[XanatosSpeedChess Xanatos Speed Chess]] between the [[VillainProtagonist Squire]], [[TheRival Heiress]] and [[HeroAntagonist the Lone Swordsman]].
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* ''Literature/APracticalGuideToEvil'': Gambit pileups are a recurring theme of conflicts in the ending of series, with both immediate and greater scope factions each book resolves trying to get what they want from any given situation.
** Three arcs use [[IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming themed chapter titles]] in thecurrent arc format of “''*character’s*'' plan”, with one the first two arcs starting with “All According To…”.
*** At the climax ofthese. In Book 1, each of chapter follows the plans of a different cadet company commanders has a plan commander to win the wargame; wargame.
*** Midway through Book 4 sees each chapter follow [[FiveManBand the Woe]] as they follow different parts of the [[spoiler:many-threaded MemoryGambit to defeat [[TimeMaster the Skein]] and get a chance to lock Dread Empress Malicia out of [[VillainTeamUp negotiations]] at Keter. Despite not getting chapter titles, both Malicia and the [[FinalBossPreview Dead King]] outplay the Woe with their own gambits]].
*** Early into Book 7, [[spoiler:the Battle of Kala sees various leaders sequentially notch a victory getting them something they want out of the many-sided battle in question]].
** Some books and arcs in the series end with these, aside from the Book 1 example above:
*** Book 2 ends with a three-way game of [[XanatosSpeedChess Xanatos Speed Chess]] betweenthe [[VillainProtagonist the Squire]], [[TheRival Heiress]] the Heiress]], and [[HeroAntagonist the Lone Swordsman]].Swordsman]].
*** The first two arcs of Book 3 involve [[spoiler:the Squire and the various schemes of the [[FaerieCourt Winter Court]], followed by [[VillainProtagonist Catherine]] having to lure the Summer Queen into a situation that gives her exactly what both her and the Winter King want]].
*** The [[spoiler:Princes’ Graveyard]] arc that caps the first half of Book 5 [[spoiler:sees Catherine, the rest of the Woe, the Army of Callow, [[TheAlliance various leaders in the Grand Alliance]], [[OmniscientMoralityLicense the Grey Pilgrim]], [[KnightTemplar the Saint of Swords]], [[ChronicBackstabbingDisorder the Tyrant of Helike]], [[TheFairFolk Larat]], [[ArtifactDomination a shard of the Dead King manipulating the Hierophant]], and [[TimeAbyss the Intercessor]] variously competing, backstabbing each other, and unironically working together to achieve various ends.]]
*** Book 7 (and the series as a whole) ends with [[spoiler:another three-way gambit fight between [[AntiVillain Catherine]][=/=][[TheAlliance the Grand Alliance]], [[EvilVsOblivion the Dead King, and the Intercessor]]]].
** Three arcs use [[IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming themed chapter titles]] in the
*** At the climax of
*** Midway through Book 4 sees each chapter follow [[FiveManBand the Woe]] as they follow different parts of the [[spoiler:many-threaded MemoryGambit to defeat [[TimeMaster the Skein]] and get a chance to lock Dread Empress Malicia out of [[VillainTeamUp negotiations]] at Keter. Despite not getting chapter titles, both Malicia and the [[FinalBossPreview Dead King]] outplay the Woe with their own gambits]].
*** Early into Book 7, [[spoiler:the Battle of Kala sees various leaders sequentially notch a victory getting them something they want out of the many-sided battle in question]].
** Some books and arcs in the series end with these, aside from the Book 1 example above:
*** Book 2 ends with a three-way game of [[XanatosSpeedChess Xanatos Speed Chess]] between
*** The first two arcs of Book 3 involve [[spoiler:the Squire and the various schemes of the [[FaerieCourt Winter Court]], followed by [[VillainProtagonist Catherine]] having to lure the Summer Queen into a situation that gives her exactly what both her and the Winter King want]].
*** The [[spoiler:Princes’ Graveyard]] arc that caps the first half of Book 5 [[spoiler:sees Catherine, the rest of the Woe, the Army of Callow, [[TheAlliance various leaders in the Grand Alliance]], [[OmniscientMoralityLicense the Grey Pilgrim]], [[KnightTemplar the Saint of Swords]], [[ChronicBackstabbingDisorder the Tyrant of Helike]], [[TheFairFolk Larat]], [[ArtifactDomination a shard of the Dead King manipulating the Hierophant]], and [[TimeAbyss the Intercessor]] variously competing, backstabbing each other, and unironically working together to achieve various ends.]]
*** Book 7 (and the series as a whole) ends with [[spoiler:another three-way gambit fight between [[AntiVillain Catherine]][=/=][[TheAlliance the Grand Alliance]], [[EvilVsOblivion the Dead King, and the Intercessor]]]].
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* Book three of ''The Literature/SinisterSixTrilogy'' has a few members of the six, their benefactor, Spider-man and SAFE all running plans that get shot to pieces when they collide.
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* Book three of ''The Literature/SinisterSixTrilogy'' ''Literature/SpiderManSinisterSixTrilogy'' has a few members of the six, their benefactor, Spider-man and SAFE all running plans that get shot to pieces when they collide.
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* ''Literature/ReignOfTheSevenSpellblades'': The [[TournamentArc combat leagues]] in the year 3 books. On the face of it you have three tiers of students (grades 2-3, 4-5, and 6-7) competing for glory, prize money, and to settle old scores with class rivals, but there's also a political angle: since mages tend to believe AsskickingLeadsToLeadership and the election cycle for StudentCouncilPresident runs concurrently, the student body tends to vote for whichever side won a majority of the tiers. This leads to various attempts at CripplingTheCompetition. This is compounded by the murders of two professors in preceding years: Headmistress Esmeralda jacks up the prize money to attract more students, hoping to see if any of them might be strong enough to have killed Darius Grenville and Enrico Forghieri. [[spoiler:And then Cyrus Rivermoore tosses a hand grenade into the mix by joining the 7th-year prelims just to get close enough to Alvin Godfrey to steal his sternum for an experiment, {{depower|ed}}ing him, which provokes the Watch to send a posse after him to recover it before the finals so he can regain his lost powers, which in turn leads the old council to try to interfere with their hunt.]]
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* ''Literature/ReignOfTheSevenSpellblades'': The [[TournamentArc combat leagues]] in the year 3 books. On the face of it you have three tiers of students (grades 2-3, 4-5, and 6-7) competing for glory, prize money, and to settle old scores with class rivals, but there's also a political angle: since mages tend to believe AsskickingLeadsToLeadership and the election cycle for StudentCouncilPresident runs concurrently, the student body tends to vote for whichever side won a majority of the tiers. This leads to various attempts at CripplingTheCompetition. This is compounded by the murders of two professors in preceding years: Headmistress Esmeralda jacks up the prize money to attract more students, hoping to see if any of them might be strong enough to have killed Darius Grenville and Enrico Forghieri. [[spoiler:And then Cyrus Rivermoore tosses a hand grenade into the mix by joining the 7th-year prelims just to get close enough to Alvin Godfrey to steal his sternum for an experiment, {{depower|ed}}ing {{depower}}ing him, which provokes the Watch to send a posse after him to recover it before the finals so he can regain his lost powers, which in turn leads the old council to try to interfere with their hunt.]]
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* ''Literature/ReignOfTheSevenSpellblades'': The [[TournamentArc combat leagues]] in the year 3 books. On the face of it you have three tiers of students (grades 2-3, 4-5, and 6-7) competing for glory, prize money, and to settle old scores with class rivals, but there's also a political angle: since mages tend to believe AsskickingLeadsToLeadership and the election cycle for StudentCouncilPresident runs concurrently, the student body tends to vote for whichever side won a majority of the tiers. This leads to various attempts at CripplingTheCompetition. This is compounded by the murders of two professors in preceding years: Headmistress Esmeralda jacks up the prize money to attract more students, hoping to see if any of them might be strong enough to have killed Darius Grenville and Enrico Forghieri. [[spoiler:And then Cyrus Rivermoore tosses a hand grenade into the mix by joining the 7th-year prelims just to get close enough to Alvin Godfrey to steal his sternum for an experiment, {{depower|ed}}ing him, which provokes the Watch to send a posse after him to recover it before the finals so he can regain his lost powers, which in turn leads the old council to try to interfere with their hunt.]]
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** In ''Literature/TheHanSoloTrilogy'' has the Battle of Nar Shaddaa in ''The Hutt Gambit''. The Hutts find out that Moff Sarn Shild plans to invade their home system and glass Nar Shaddaa in particular to put an end to their weapons smuggling. After failing to buy him off, they send Han to bribe his subordinate Admiral Winstel Greelanx, who agrees to withdraw if the Hutts inflict enough losses on him to make it reasonable, to which end the Hutts gather every SpacePirate and smuggler who can fire a laser cannon. Unbeknownst to the Hutts, Greelanx simultaneously receives secret orders from the Emperor to do basically the same thing, which Bria Tharen theorizes after the fact was an attempt to publicly embarrass Moff Shild as an excuse to remove him from office. [[spoiler:It doesn't end well for Greelanx, although it's left ambiguous whether Darth Vader found out about the bribe or was [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness just eliminating a potential leak]].]]
