Excerpt from Whist in Diagrams, a Supplement to American Whist Illustrated: Being a Series of Hands Played Through Illustrating the American Leads, the New Play, the Forms of Finesse and Celebrated Coups of Masters, With Explanation and AnalysisThis book is 3. Supplement to American Whist Illustrated.' Many of the hands are from actual play by the best players of the world. It seldom happens that four players of equal strength make a table. The student will note the occasional play of a master, and the expert can trace, from the beginning to the close of every hand, that one or more of the participants played the great game by brain power.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.