Excerpt from Royal Auction Bridge: With Full Treatment of the New Count and With Many Illustrative Hands Whist was a good game until they invented bridge, and bridge was a good game until they started to play auction. Auction was the best game of all until they suggested royals. This new game, having met and overcome every defect in the Old, is regarded as the best card game for four players in the world to-day and will probably hold for the next ten years the places held, each for a decade, by Whist and then by bridge. Whist had the defect that the trump was determined by pure chance and that many of the strongest hands were wasted because the trump did not suit them. Bridge remedied that defect by allowing the dealer to select the trump and permitting h-is adversaries to double its value if they thought the selection a bad one for him. But bridge had the defect that the dealer and his partner had a monopoly of the declaration, and while it was undoubtedly an improvement on Whist it did not go far enough, because no matter how good the hands held by the non-dealers they had nothing to say about selecting the trump that would best fit their hands. Auction remedied this by allowing each player at the; table a chance to pick out the suit and letting the man with the best cards play them for their full value. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com 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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