The laws and principles of whist stated and explained and its practice illustrated on an original system, by means of hands played completely through . Tricks {41;^ Remark.—The fall of thequeen of spades from Yshows A that the two re-maining spades are in Zshand. Zs third card is thequeen of clubs, which heturned up. 158 WHIST. Trick 11. B A Tricks Y Z, 5 Trick AB, 7Y Z, 5 Eemaek (Trick 12).—A*s*lead here is instructive. Heknows Ms partner (B) has one diamond and no spade andno heart (see Tricks 5, 7, and 10). Bs other card must there-fore be a chib (trump). If it is the best trump, A win
The laws and principles of whist stated and explained and its practice illustrated on an original system, by means of hands played completely through . Tricks {41;^ Remark.—The fall of thequeen of spades from Yshows A that the two re-maining spades are in Zshand. Zs third card is thequeen of clubs, which heturned up. 158 WHIST. Trick 11. B A Tricks Y Z, 5 Trick AB, 7Y Z, 5 Eemaek (Trick 12).—A*s*lead here is instructive. Heknows Ms partner (B) has one diamond and no spade andno heart (see Tricks 5, 7, and 10). Bs other card must there-fore be a chib (trump). If it is the best trump, A wins twoby cards by leading a trump. But if it is not the winningtrump, a trump lead loses the odd trick. It is better tomake certain of the odd trick than to risk losing it for thechance of winning two by cards ; for the odd trick makesa difference of two to the score. A, therefore, properlyensures the odd trick by forcing his partner (see p. 122). Suppose the score to be A B three, and T Z one. ThenA would be justified in leading the trump at Trick , if B has the ten, AB win two by cards and the game ;and, if B has not the ten, AB lose the odd trick ; the scoreremaining AB three, TZ two. It is better to run the risk ofthis score for the sake of the game, than to make certain ofscoring only four and of leaving the adversaries at B win the odd tri
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