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Of the illustrative hands, all but ten are given substantially as they occurred in actual play, ex cept a few that have been changed slightly to illustrate the particular point of play. The hands are grouped or classified according to the feature of play involved, and show the principles of play that usually occur in practice. Some hands that occur are not sufficiently distinctive to be placed in any one group, while others involve several principles of play, so that such hands could prop erly be placed in any one of several groups. While generally, with hands that have some fea ture of play, it may not be possible to tell in what group, if any, they belong, until a number of tricks have been played, nevertheless hands do oc cur with sufficient frequency in which knowing the play of the illustrative hands ought to be of assistance, if the player, as soon as he sees dummy, can tell in what group the hand belongs.
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Of the illustrative hands, all but ten are given substantially as they occurred in actual play, ex cept a few that have been changed slightly to illustrate the particular point of play. The hands are grouped or classified according to the feature of play involved, and show the principles of play that usually occur in practice. Some hands that occur are not sufficiently distinctive to be placed in any one group, while others involve several principles of play, so that such hands could prop erly be placed in any one of several groups. While generally, with hands that have some fea ture of play, it may not be possible to tell in what group, if any, they belong, until a number of tricks have been played, nevertheless hands do oc cur with sufficient frequency in which knowing the play of the illustrative hands ought to be of assistance, if the player, as soon as he sees dummy, can tell in what group the hand belongs.
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This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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- ISBN 13 9781333843939
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