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The Bridge Player
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Postings on vintage rules and strategy for playing bridge.
- Added on: Feb 13th, 2009
- Country: United States
- Language: English
- Author: chicago_blogger
- Listed in: Entertainment
- Tags: entertainment card games bridge
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Simple Etiquette for Bridge Players
The following is excerpted from "Etiquette in Society", by Emily Post, 1922, but contains much that is still relevant today.That no one likes a poor partner—or even a poor opponent—goes without saying.The ideal partner is one who never criticises...
Auction Bridge
This variety of the game for four players, which adds an element characteristic of poker, appears to have been suggested about 1904, but was really introduced at the Bath Club, London, in 1907, and then was gradually taken up by a wider circle. The l...
Three-handed Bridge
The three players cut; the one that cuts the lowest card deals, and takes dummy for one deal: each takes dummy in turn. Dummy's cards are dealt face downwards, and the dealer declares without seeing them. If the dealer declares trumps, both adversari...
Finding the Best Suit
In a no-trump declaration the opponents of the dealer should endeavour to find the longest suit in the two hands, or the one most easily established. With this object the leader should open his best suit. If his partner next obtains the lead he ought...
Discarding Losing Cards
With a suit declaration, if there is no chance of letting the weak hand make a trump by ruffing, it will generally be the dealer's aim to discard the losing cards in the declaring hand either to high cards or to the cards of an established suit in th...
Playing a Hand, No-Trump Declaration
In a no-trump declaration the main object is to bring in a long suit. In selecting the suit to establish, the following are favourable conditions:—One hand should hold at least five cards of the suit. The two hands, unless with a sequence of high c...
