The Hand-Book of Games, Vol. 3 of 2: New or Carefully Revised Treatises on Whist, Piquet, Ecart?, Lansquenet, Boston, Quadrille, Cribbage, and Other Card Games (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from The Hand-Book of Games, Vol. 3 of 2: New or Carefully Revised Treatises on Whist, Piquet, Ecarté, Lansquenet, Boston, Quadrille, Cribbage, and Other Card Games

Whist is a game of Calculation, Observation, and Position or Tenace.

Calculation teaches you to plan your game, and lead origi nally to advantage before a card is played, you suppose the dealer to have an honour and three other trumps; the others each an honour and two others. The least reflection will Show, that as it is two, to one, that your partner has not a named card, to lead on the supposition he has it, is to play against calculation. Whereas, the odds being in favour of his having one of two named cards, you are justified in play ing accordingly. Calculation is also of use on other occasions, which the maxims will elucidate; but after a few leads have taken place, it is nearly superseded by observation. Where the sets are really good players, before half the cards are played out, they are as well acquainted with the material ones remaining in each other's hands as if they had seen them. Where two regular players are matched against two irregular ones, it is nearly the same advantage as if they were permitted to see each other's cards, while the latter were denied the same privilege.

It is an axiom, that the nearer your play approaches to what is called the dumb man the better.

These may be called the foundation of the game, and are so merely mechanical, that any one possessed of a tolerable memory may attain them.

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