Identifier: fosterswhistmanu00fost_0 (find matches)
Title: Foster's whist manual
Year: 1891 (1890s)
Authors: Foster, R. F. (Robert Frederick), 1853-1945
Subjects: Whist
Publisher: New York, Chicago (etc.) Brentano's
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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mp forthe long suit; the short jump for the shortsuit. Whether your K won or not; if you hadonly Ikree cards, KQJ, make the short jump to the Q; if you had /oi^r cards, the long jump to the J. (With Jize cards in suit, J is led first, youremember.) If your partner holds A; or if it wonyour K adversely, he knows you have Q. Con-tinuing with Q or J tells him you have J also;continuing with your fourth best, that you havenol the J; just as with A K, no Q. For Practice, deal a number of hands fromthe 28 card pradlice pack, and pick out all the FOLLOWIXG KING. 43 K leads, noting carefully the card that shouldfollow on second round. For examples of secoiid round of K leads see Ashands in games No. 2, 4, 6, 9, 30, 31, 32, of theSelf-Playing Cards, First Series. On next page you will find the entire S3stemof long and short jumps in the King Leads. Further examples of the second round of Kingleads are given in the Second Series of the Self-Players ; see As hand in games No. i, 12, 16, 26,and 30.
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FOLLOWING ACM. Lay out the following four combinations, andtake them one at a time into your hand, as youdid the King leads:— No. 1. A O J 10 2 I No. 3. A Q J 3No. 2. A O J 4 2 I No. 4. A O J Having first led the Ace from any of these hands,two things are to be kept in view; to force the Kout of your way, lea\dng you with the commandof your suit; and to let your partner know whatyour suit consists of In each of these hands youhave a sequence (see page 38), a7zy card of whichwill either force the K or win the trick. Witha view to the other obje6l, partners information,select, as before, a different card in each case,and follow the same rule of long and short jumps.In No. I, the long jump will be (from theA of course, which was led first) to the 10. InNo. 2, as you have /our cards left, make the longjump, to the J. In No. 3 or 4, having only i^zcoor three cards left, make the shortest jump, to theQ. Any of these second leads will force the K,and each conveys different information to p

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