Possible Clues:

• Charge back for game with one of those watery defenders used to closing things down
• Defence against attackers in, say, nil-nil game
• Tie cross in part of castle
• Select game for old opener
• Attract newlywed to cross key part of castle, perhaps
• Inconclusive result, game being one that goes up and down
• Tie game: would that be a letdown in medieval times?
• Opener cross after deadlock
• Opener once in abstract game
• Failure to win game that’s raised to shut one out