The complications and difficulties of which one hears so much exist These text-books is presented to the mind in such a manner as toĬonfuse, rather than assist, and the usual result of their perusal is To communicate their knowledge to others. Game they wrote about, they do not seem to have possessed the ability While the authors of these books may have been masters of the Text-books on the subject seem to have learnt little or nothing from Understanding it as they should, and the few who have read any Many persons have played Skat for a number of years without It, and the student may sit down and play it. Modern game of Skat in such a manner that the reader may understand The following pages are an attempt to present the elements of the Tournaments of the American Skat League, and the popular game of the Made in connection with Solos, page 84, 93 and 161, will explain theĭifference between the official game, as still played in the annual Regulated by the laws of the American Skat League, but the remarks The game described in the following pages is the official game, as At noĭistant day, Skat may be the national game. Possibilities of Auction Bridge, with none of its drawbacks. The game has now all the fascinations and Uncertainty as to what cards are in the Skat, or out against the This cuts out a great many of the uncertainties of the biddingĪnd complications in the scoring, and removes one of the chiefĭifficulties of learning the game as first played in this country,įifteen or twenty years ago. Highest bidder taking the Skat cards into his hand before naming his The objections to the complications of Skat have been largely removedīy the introduction of what are technically called "Gucki Solos," the "Follow suit or trump." That is all there At the time this charge was made, theĬomparison was with whist, then the public favorite, and the easiest Learning the game, it having, unfortunately, started with the The one objection usually made to Skat, is the supposed difficulty of Which is, and has always been, the one fatal defect of bridge.
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In giving full scope for the display of skill and judgment, both inīidding and play, with the additional advantage that the player who isĬhiefly responsible for the result is not at the mercy of any partner, Rather than as an excuse for gambling, Skat still holds its positionĪs the best of all card games. DUTTON & COMPANY All Rights Reserved Printed in the United States of AmericaĪmong those who play cards for the intellectual amusement they afford, DUTTON & COMPANY 681 Fifth Avenue Copyright, 1906, by McCLURE, PHILLIPS & CO. FOSTER Author of "Foster's Pirate Bridge," "Foster on Auction," "Foster's
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