The Decline and Fall of Whist: An Old Fashioned View of New Fangled PlayG. E. Waters, Simpkin Marshall & Company, 1884 - 75 páginas |
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Términos y frases comunes
act of play algebra American leads amusing answer antepenultimate aphorism arouse no corresponding authority bad hand Bartholomew Binns best protected suit BUMBLEPUPPY card but three Cavendish on Whist clubs command of trumps conventions Deschapelles edition of Clay elementary algebra exact length extensions of principle Field five suit force majeure four suit fourth hand G. E. WATERS honour is led Hoyle intelligence ipse dixit Juggins king of hearts knave lead the lowest lead trumps long suit longest suit lose matter misdeal modern game opinion penultimate lead PILLAR place each deci plain suit player is strong present queen led question quitted the trick rule second hand second player holds seventy-eight square inches signal signal-man simple plan strength in trumps strong suit strongest suit taken tective discard third hand three of hearts trouble trumps from five weak well-known decisions WESTBOURNE GROVE Westminster Papers Whist philosophy whist-hands WOODEN ARRANGEMENT
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Página 71 - Their van will be upon us Before the bridge goes down; And if they once may win the bridge, What hope to save the town? ' Then out spake brave Horatius, The Captain of the gate : 'To every man upon this earth Death cometh soon or late; And how can man die better Than facing fearful odds, For the ashes of his fathers And the temples of his Gods...
Página 37 - ... qui studet optatam cursu contingere metam, multa tulit fecitque puer, sudavit et alsit, abstinuit venere et vino ; qui Pythia cantat tibicen, didicit prius extimuitque magistrum. nunc satis est dixisse ' ego mira poemata pango ; occupet extremum scabies ; mihi turpe relinqui est, et quod non didici sane nescire fateri.
Página 47 - In the most literal of senses, "the earth hath bubbles as the water hath ; and these are of them.
Página 23 - According to the play that we see, with great weakness the rule is rather to lead strengthening cards. For our own part, we should be inclined to say, "Lead from your long suit only when you are sufficiently strong to bring in that suit with the aid of reasonable strength on the part of your partner.
Página 12 - ... a card, and his partner B putting on the knave or queen, yours wins with the king, should A lead a small card of that suit again, if you have the ten put it on. It is probable, by doing this, you keep the commanding card in your partner's hand, and prevent the second best from making. 79. If weak in trumps, keep guard on your adversaries
Página 22 - ... justification for leading a singleton in trumps was the holding at least ace and king in the three remaining suits. He spoke the opinion of his school. That school, I am inclined to believe, might teach us much that we have neglected, but I should pick out of it one man alone, the celebrated Major Aubrey, as likely to be very formidable among the best players of the present day. He was a player of great original genius, and refused strict adherence to the over careful system, to which his companions...
Página 27 - ... general rule for leading from suits which contain no cards in sequence is to lead the lowest card, with the exception of ace and four or more small ones. From suits containing cards in sequence heading the suit, such as ace, king ; king, queen ; queen, knave, ten, the rule is to lead one of the sequence. From suits containing a sequence that does not head the suit, the lowest card is led. The only generally admitted exception is in the case of king, knave, ten, and a small card or cards, from...
Página 13 - ... in your own or your partner's long suit, discard originally from your best protected suit. This I may call the foundation of the modern system of discarding ; it has been adopted by all the best players with whom I am acquainted. For the sake of having a short and easily remembered rule, however, it is the fashion to say " Discard originally from your strong suit when the adversaries lead trumps.
Página 30 - Oddly enough when another writer, emulous of extending the master, and seduced by the analogy that what was sauce for the goose must be sauce for the gander...
Página 28 - No greater mistake can be made than to imagine that it is desirable in every case to give information to your partner, and players who are always endeavouring to do this, without reference to the state of their hands, will surely in the long run suffer.