The Theory of the Modern Scientific Game of WhistLongmans, Green, and Company, 1871 - 93 páginas |
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... fact . Good players , generally , like to play for stakes high enough to define well the interest taken in the game ; but the idea of gain , which is the essential feature of gambling , enters as little into the mind of a Whist as of a ...
... fact . Good players , generally , like to play for stakes high enough to define well the interest taken in the game ; but the idea of gain , which is the essential feature of gambling , enters as little into the mind of a Whist as of a ...
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... fact is , that , like almost everything else that may be done in different ways , there is a best way of playing Whist ; and , although a very wide latitude may always be left for individual judgment and skill , yet the existence of a ...
... fact is , that , like almost everything else that may be done in different ways , there is a best way of playing Whist ; and , although a very wide latitude may always be left for individual judgment and skill , yet the existence of a ...
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... fact that some of its features are of late invention , we shall designate it as The Modern Scientific Game . ' This system , as we have already said , essentially requires to be learnt and studied . It has been the result of long ...
... fact that some of its features are of late invention , we shall designate it as The Modern Scientific Game . ' This system , as we have already said , essentially requires to be learnt and studied . It has been the result of long ...
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... fact , carried out into all the ramifications of the play , which characterises the scientific game , and gives it its superiority over all others . Yet , obvious as this fact is , it is astonishing how imperfectly it is appreciated ...
... fact , carried out into all the ramifications of the play , which characterises the scientific game , and gives it its superiority over all others . Yet , obvious as this fact is , it is astonishing how imperfectly it is appreciated ...
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... fact , to play the two hands combined , as if they were one . For this object the two players enter into a system of legalised corre- spondence established for the purpose , by which each becomes informed to the fullest extent possible ...
... fact , to play the two hands combined , as if they were one . For this object the two players enter into a system of legalised corre- spondence established for the purpose , by which each becomes informed to the fullest extent possible ...
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