 Your first lead makes your partner understand What is the chief component of your hand; And hence there is necessity the strongest That your first lead be from your suit that's longest. In this, with ace and king, lead king, then ace ; With king and queen,...  British Farmer's Magazine - Page 1381880Affichage du livre entier - À propos de ce livre
 | 1894 - 1096 pages
...years in that cardinal maxim of whist which has been embodied in the execrable rhyme : Regard your hand as to your partner's joined And play, not one alone, but both combined. The bad whist-player who cannot be got to understand that he has to play, not thirteen, but twenty-six... | |
 | Charles Emmet Coffin - 1895 - 136 pages
...THEORY OF THE GAME. " If you the modern game of Whist would know, From this great principle its precepts flow : Treat your own hand as to your partner's joined, And play not one alone, but both combined." — Pole. 3HE theory of modern scientific Whist is based upon the principle of partnership, in which... | |
 | Sir Herbert Maxwell - 1895 - 374 pages
...years in that cardinal maxim of whist which has been embodied in the execrable rhyme, — " Eegard your hand as to your partner's joined, And play, not one alone, but both combined." The bad whist-player who cannot be got to understand that he has to play, not thirteen, but twenty-six... | |
 | Mary Mapes Dodge - 1897 - 550 pages
...Pole, beginning: If you the modern game of Whist would know From this great principle its precepts flow. Treat your own hand as to your partner's joined, And play not one alone but both combined. And so on ; but my attempts to recall the lines meant to regulate the leads during whist-playing have... | |
 | 1894 - 880 pages
...years in that -cardinal maxim of whist which has been embodied in the execrable rhyme : Regard your hand as to your partner's joined And play, not one alone, but both combined. The bad whist player who cannot be got to understand that he has to play, not thirteen, but twenty-six... | |
 | Mary Mapes Dodge - 1897 - 592 pages
...Pole, beginning : If you the modern game of Whist would know From this great principle its precepts flow. Treat your own hand as to your partner's joined, And play not one alone but both combined. And so on ; but my attempts to recall the lines meant to regulate the leads during whist-playing have... | |
 | 1894 - 1074 pages
...years in that cardinal maxim of whist which has been embodied in the execrable rhyme : Regard your hand as to your partner's joined And play, not one alone, but both combined. The bad whist-player who cannot be got to understand that he has to play, not thirteen, but twenty-six... | |
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