Advice to Whist Players by Thomas Matthews

Author:Thomas Matthews
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Publisher: Inskeep & Bradford
Published: 1813-03-25T05:00:00+00:00

rationwill shew tint if A leads £ wins a trick, and vice verm; of coarse, m every such situation it is the mutual plan of players by leading a losing card to pujt it into the adversary's hand to oblige him to lead that suit, whereby you preserve the tenaee. Solar is easily comprehended; but it requires attention with practice, to apply the principle, so obvious in the superior, to the inferior cards, of see that the same tenaee operates occasionally with, the seven and five, as the ace and queen, and is productive of the same advantage; A, last player* remains with

tlie ace and queen of a suit not played, the lut trump, and a losing card* B, bis kffrhamd advcr$ary, leads a forcing card* Q<fert-~How is A to playl i4wwer—If three tricks win the game, or any particular point, he u not to raff, but throw away bis losing cardi, because bis left-hand adversary being then obliged to lead to his suit, he remains tenace, and must make his: ace and queen. But upon a supposition that making the four tricks gains him the rubber, be should then take the force, as in these situations you are justified in giving up the tenace for an equal chance of making any mate* rial point.

The Finesse has a near affinity .to the. tenace, except that the latter is

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