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Excerpt from The Play of Auction Hands: One Hundred Hands Illustrated and Analyzed, the First Seventy-Two Hands Explaining the Play of Declarant, and the Balance of Twenty-Eight, the Play of Opponents of Declarant, Besides a Discussion of Certain Features of Auction Bidding and Conventions
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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