Auction Tactics

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Dodd, Mead, 1916 - Auction bridge - 148 pages
 

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Page 123 - ... fail to play as directed, or if, when called on to lead one suit he lead another, having in his hand one or more cards of the suit demanded (Laws...
Page 132 - While a bystander, by agreement among the players, may decide any question, he should not say anything unless appealed to ; and if he make any remark which calls attention to an oversight affecting the score, or to the exaction of a penalty, he is liable to be called upon by the players to pay the stakes (not extras) lost.
Page 128 - ... revoke, and the error may be corrected, unless the question be answered in the negative, or unless the revoking player or his partner have led or played to the following trick.
Page 104 - A proven error in the honor score may be corrected at any time before the score of the rubber has been made up and agreed upon. 13.
Page 129 - At the end of a hand, the claimants of a revoke may search all the tricks. If the cards have been 'mixed, the claim may be urged and proved, if possible; but no proof is necessary and the revoke is established, if, after it has been claimed, the accused player or his partner mixes the cards before they have been examined to the satisfaction of the adversaries.
Page 119 - ... exact for a revoke; g to ask the declarer whether he have any of a suit he has renounced. The dummy, if he have not intentionally looked at any card in the hand of a player...
Page 134 - I have the rest", or any words indicating that the remaining tricks, or any number thereof, are his, and one or both of the other players...
Page 125 - If a player called on to lead a suit have none of it, the penalty is paid. CARDS PLAYED IN ERROR, OR NOT PLAYED TO A TRICK.
Page 101 - THE RUBBER 1. The partners first winning two games win the rubber. If the first two games decide the rubber, a third is not played. SCORING 2. A game consists of thirty points obtained by tricks alone, exclusive of any points counted for honors, chicane, slam, little slam, bonus or undertricks.
Page 120 - ... 64. A card from the declarer's hand is not played until actually quitted, but should he name or touch a card in the dummy, such card is played unless he say, " I arrange,

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