Excerpt from Modern Scientific Whist the Principles of the Modern Game, Analyzed and Extended: Illustrated by Over Sixty Critical Endings and Annotated Games From Actual Play

The purpose of this volume is to present to the student of the game the rules and maxims of play as laid down by the authorities, and practiced by the strongest players. And an effort has been made to simplify and render clear the applications of the many rules and maxims by copious analyses and numerous illustrations. Much space has been devoted to the play of second hand, the intricacies of end-play, the depart ment of inference and to the management of trumps.

The writer has no inventions to announce, no theories to defend, and is indebted to the literature of the game and to the expert players met in practice for all that appears in the following pages which may prove of value to the Students of Whist.

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