Hoyle's Improved Edition of the Rules for Playing Fashionable Games: Containing Copious Directions for Whist, Quadrille, Piquet ... Together with an Analysis of the Game of Chess and an Engraved Plate for the Instruction of BeginnersW. C. Borradaile, 1830 - 288 Seiten |
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Seite 45
... probability of a saw . 5th . If your partner has been forced and did not trump out . 6th . It is often right in playing for an odd trick . 24. It is often difficult to judge when to lead trumps . The following situations will assist the ...
... probability of a saw . 5th . If your partner has been forced and did not trump out . 6th . It is often right in playing for an odd trick . 24. It is often difficult to judge when to lead trumps . The following situations will assist the ...
Seite 49
... probability they should save their lurch , or win the game , notwith- standing your partner holds a third honour ; if not , you should not call , as it gives a decided advantage against you in playing for tricks . 58. Finessing in ...
... probability they should save their lurch , or win the game , notwith- standing your partner holds a third honour ; if not , you should not call , as it gives a decided advantage against you in playing for tricks . 58. Finessing in ...
Seite 59
... probability is against its being finessed . But on all these occasions , play without hesitation , which con- stantly directs a skilful adversary where to finesse to advantage . It frequently happens when you have led from six trumps ...
... probability is against its being finessed . But on all these occasions , play without hesitation , which con- stantly directs a skilful adversary where to finesse to advantage . It frequently happens when you have led from six trumps ...
Seite 62
... probability of making several ; and are like fen- cers who parry well , but cannot attack . No players of this kind can ever excel , though they reach mediocrity . I must also repeat my advice to proficients , to vary their play ...
... probability of making several ; and are like fen- cers who parry well , but cannot attack . No players of this kind can ever excel , though they reach mediocrity . I must also repeat my advice to proficients , to vary their play ...
Seite 92
... probability is in his favour that he is unguarded in his other suits ; and should he play from the suit of which he has the most in number , and finds his adversary's queen guarded , in that case , he has no chance to save or win the ...
... probability is in his favour that he is unguarded in his other suits ; and should he play from the suit of which he has the most in number , and finds his adversary's queen guarded , in that case , he has no chance to save or win the ...
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
back game basto bishop takes bishop's 3d square bishop's 4th square black kings bragger called carrom chance cock Cribbage deal dealer deuce discard elder hand finesse five four gives check honour king's 2d square king's bishop's pawn king's knight's pawn king's pawn king's rook's pawn knave knight's 3d square knight's 4th square last player lead a trump losing manille N C F T nine odd trick partner leads party pawn one move pawn one step pawn retakes pawn takes pawn two moves pawn two steps person pieces punter queen takes queen's bishop's pawn queen's pawn queen's rook quinola reckoned red ball reversis rook takes small card small clubs small diamonds small hearts Spadille stake striker strong in trumps strong suit takes the knight takes the pawn terce three small trumps throw turned unless W The king's W The queen's whist white kings win the game
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Seite 2 - District, has deposited in this office the title of a book, the right whereof he claims as proprietor, in the words following, to wit...
Seite 158 - The eldest hand having laid down one, the next must pair him at either end of the piece he may choose, according to the number of pips, or the blank in the compartment of the piece; but whenever any one cannot match the part, either of the domino last put down, or of that unpaired at the other end of the row, then he says "Go;" and the next is at liberty to play.
Seite 69 - ... ace of diamonds or. hearts, when they are not trumps. The two of hearts or diamonds is always superior to the three ; the three to the four; the four to the five ;.and the five to the six : the six is only superior to the seven when it is not trumps, for when the seven is manille, it is the second trump. There are three matadores, viz., spadille, manille, and basto ; whose privilege is...
Seite 259 - If the players have crossed each other, he that runs for the wicket which is put down is out.
Seite 71 - Regie is the order to be observed at the game. Remise is when they who stand the game do not make more tricks than they who defend the pool, and then they lose by remise. Renounce is, not to play in the suit led when you have it ; likewise, when not having any of the suit led, you win with a card that is the only one you have of that suit in which you play.
Seite 209 - J'adtrube," or / repla.ce. 3. When a player has quitted a piece, he cannot recall the move. 4. if a player touch one of his adversary's pieces, without saying J'rduube, he may be compelled to take it, or if it cannot be taken to move his king. 5. When a pawn is moved two steps, it may be taken by any adversary's pawn which it passes, and the capturing pawn must be placed in that square over which the other leaps.
Seite 281 - Judge shall not be able to decide which won, those horses shall run for such prize over again, after the last race on the same day; the other horses which started are deemed losers, and are entitled to their respective places, as if the race had been finally determined the first time.
Seite 279 - For the best of the Plate, where there are three heats run, the horse is second that wins one. For the best of the heats, the horse is second that beats the other twice out of three times though he doth not win a heat.
Seite 133 - The cards are next to be dealt round equally to every player, one turned up for trump, and about six or eight left in the stock to form stops ; as, for example, if the ten of spades be turned up, the nine consequently becomes a stop ; the four kings, and the seven of diamonds, are always fixed stops, and the dealer is the only person permitted, in the course of the game, to refer occasionally to the stock for information what other cards are stops in their respective deals.
Seite 60 - As I have ventured to recommend occasional deviations from what is considered as one of the most classical maxims; te leading from single cards, without that strength in trumps, hitherto judged indispensably necessary to justify it; I give the reasons that influence my opinion, in favour of this practice, with those generally alleged against it, leaving the reader to determine between them. Two objections are made, which, it cannot be denied, may and do happen. The first, that if your partner has...