This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1879 edition. Excerpt: ...As an example of such a case, the following will serve. I hold ace, queen of spades, trumps, ace and knave of hearts. King and knave of trumps and two small hearts are held by my right-hand adver sary, and are the only trumps in besides my two. My partner holds king, queen and two small hearts, and leads the ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1879 edition. Excerpt: ...As an example of such a case, the following will serve. I hold ace, queen of spades, trumps, ace and knave of hearts. King and knave of trumps and two small hearts are held by my right-hand adver sary, and are the only trumps in besides my two. My partner holds king, queen and two small hearts, and leads the king. On the king I play my ace and return the knave. It is now for my partner to win or lose a trick. If he allow my knave of hearts to win, he obliges me to lead up to king, knave of trumps, when the king must win. If be take my knave with his queen, he leads through king, knave and we win every trick. You may probably ask, what is there to guide you to such results? I reply, that if you have observed the fall of the cards you ought to know, or to be tolerably certain as to the position of the four remaining trumps. If I take your king with my ace, I must have some reason for doing so. You must know that with four trumps remaining in, your queen of hearts cannot make a trick, independent of my knave; you should, therefore, give up all idea of winning with the queen, unless you play it on jny knave and concentrate all your thoughts on the best position for the lead after this trick is won. Such reasoning, combined with the value you ought to give for my reasons for playing my ace, should show you at once my object and you ought to play accordingly. The feebleness of some old whist-players hi cases similar to this is such as to cause them to lose a trick almost every other hand. Yon will now probably agree with me that the art of placing the lead is one of the most important in whist. It conies in towards the end of the game when mere book players not gifted with much intelligence break down. The cases that occur are numerous, and when it is...
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