Together with an Analysis of the Game of Chess, and an Engraved Plate for the Instruction of Beginners. CAREFULLY REVISED FROM THE LAST LONDON EDITION WITH SEVERAL ADDITIONS. NEW-YORK PUBLISHED BY W. C. BORRADAILE 1830. 118.30 L.S. BE IT REMEMBERED, That on the Second day of June, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and thirty, in the fifty-fourth year of the Independence of the United States of America, William C. Borradaile, of the said District, hath deposited in this office the title of a Book, the right whereof he claims as proprietor, in the words following-to wit: "Hoyle's Improved Edition of the Rules for playing Fashionable Games: containing Copious Directions for Whist, Quadrille, Piquet, Quinze, Vingt-un, Lansquenet, Pharo, Rouge et Noir, Cribbage, Matrimony, Cassino, Reversis, Put, Connexions, All Fours, Speculation, Lottery, Pope Joan, Commerce, Pam Loo, Brag, Domino, Back-Gammon, Draughts, Hazard, Chess, Goff, or Golf, Cricket, Billiards, Tennis, Horse-racing, and Cocking. Together with an Analysis of the Game of Chess, and an engraved Plate for the Instruction of Beginners. Carefully revised from the last London Edition, with several Additions." In conformity to the Act of the Congress of the United States, entitled "An Act for the encouragement of Learning, by securing the copies of Maps, Charts, and Books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies, during the time therein mentioned." And also to an Act, entitled "An Act supplementary to an Act, entitled "An Act for the encouragement of Learning, by securing the copies of Maps, Charts, and Books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies, during the time therein mentioned, and extending the benefits thereof to the arts of designing, engraving, and etching historical and other prints." FREDERICK J. BETTS, Clerk of the Southern District of New-York, When your adversaries turn up an honour The danger of forcing your partner When an honour turned up on your right When a ten or nine is turned up ditto Necessity of remembering the trump card MATRIMONY, Directions for playing the game 116 CASSINO, Terms used, and laws of the game 1 BACK GAMMON, Described How to carry your men home 161 162 164 Rules for playing the 36 chances 165 167 168 The odds of saving or winning the gammon 170 Laws of the game 173 DRAUGHTS, Description of Twenty games played 176 Critical situations to draw games 196 Critical situations to win games HAZARD, described Table of the odds Additional Calculations CHESS, Description of the game Hoyle's general rules for chess Select games at chess A trick in chess An anecdote GOFF, or GOLF, The game described BILLIARDS, General Remarks General rules for the game The English, French, and other games TENNIS Rules of the Jockey Club Table of Weights COCKING, Directions, &c. Rules and Orders |