The laws and principles of whist stated and explained and its practice illustrated on an original system, by means of hands played completely through . cards (for he can count the hands, but the in-ferences being long, and not bearing on B*s play, areomitted). Y also plays well at Trick 11, in leading theunder club, so as to secure the tenace. WHIST. 175 HAND X. Discarding, and playing to the turned up. Trick 1. THE FLAY. Trick 2. C, ? ? ? ?? z TRICKS If I J C ? ?I? ? 4 Tricks A 2 I Y Z, 0 IIp:makk.— T lias calledfor trumps. 176 WHIST. Thick 3. r A ? ?? ? 4 Tbick 5. Tkick ¥ ¥ ¥
The laws and principles of whist stated and explained and its practice illustrated on an original system, by means of hands played completely through . cards (for he can count the hands, but the in-ferences being long, and not bearing on B*s play, areomitted). Y also plays well at Trick 11, in leading theunder club, so as to secure the tenace. WHIST. 175 HAND X. Discarding, and playing to the turned up. Trick 1. THE FLAY. Trick 2. C, ? ? ? ?? z TRICKS If I J C ? ?I? ? 4 Tricks A 2 I Y Z, 0 IIp:makk.— T lias calledfor trumps. 176 WHIST. Thick 3. r A ? ?? ? 4 Tbick 5. Tkick ¥ ¥ ¥ V| THICKS I; 2 ¥ ¥¥ ¥¥ ¥¥^¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥¥^¥ ¥ ¥ z tricks}^.I; I % ?! 4^ ?! 4> 4 4» Z Trick ( A B. 2( Y Z. 5 Trick 4. 1 ¥ ¥| V i V ¥i B¥ ¥! Tricks {y z ? Trick 6 1^ Tricks 1^^ ^ Trick 8. 4^ 4»4 ? 4 TRICKS {^^ I; 2 WHIST. 177 Tkicks 9 to 13.—Y (Trick 9) leads a spade. Z puts onthe ace, as that cai:d and the twotrnmps iii Ys liand makethe game. If Z finesses he only scores four, as will be seenby referring to the hands below. The hand is instructive on these grounds. T is directedto the spade suit by Zs original discard of a club at TrickG(see p. 103), notwithstanding that Z has since discarded twospades. Z plays properly to keep his queen of clubs guardedafter his first discard, as he only wants at most two tricksbesides the two trumps whi
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