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    Bridge Axioms and Laws
    Bridge Axioms and Laws
    Bridge Axioms and Laws
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    Bridge Axioms and Laws

    By J. B. (Joseph Bowne) Elwell

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    Release dateNov 27, 2013
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      Bridge Axioms and Laws - J. B. (Joseph Bowne) Elwell

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of Bridge Axioms and Laws, by J. B. Elwell

      This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with

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      Title: Bridge Axioms and Laws

      Author: J. B. Elwell

      Release Date: November 24, 2011 [EBook #38120]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK BRIDGE AXIOMS AND LAWS ***

      Produced by Chuck Greif and the Online Distributed

      Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was

      produced from images available at The Internet Archive)

      BRIDGE AXIOMS

      AND LAWS

      WITH THE CHANGE THE SUIT CALL

      REVISED AND EXPLAINED

      BY

      J. B. ELWELL

      Author of Elwell on Bridge, Advanced Bridge,

      Bridge Tournament Hands,

      Bridge Lessons, etc.

      NEW YORK

      E. P. DUTTON & COMPANY

      31 West Twenty-third Street

      1907

      Copyright, 1907

      BY E. P. DUTTON & CO.

      The Plimpton Press Norwood Mass. U.S.A.

      BRIDGE AXIOMS

      The best Bridge players are undoubtedly those who can draw inferences quickly and correctly.

      Observation is an art enabling one to discover what other people's play conceals—as well as reveals.

      Observation always infers, and one inference will lead to another.

      Each card played speaks through its silence, and its language must be understood.

      To converse intelligently through the medium of the cards, each must be seen as it falls with eyes that grasp its meaning.

      Failure to note the play of a card is not lack of memory, but lack of heed.

      Situations are kaleidoscopic and constant, and success may only be achieved by being perpetually alert to note them.

      All time at Bridge should be devoted earnestly to what confronts a player, not to what is past.

      It is better not to play at all, than to play without earnestness.

      One careful game is worth any number of slipshod, careless efforts which are disconcerting to your partner, and the delight of your adversaries.

      Bridge abounds with situations which must be learned.

      Promptness in making a conclusion is a mental inspiration as well as an aid to expeditious play.

      Hap-hazard play, first from one suit and then from another, will not induce a successful campaign in Bridge.

      Haste and waste are anti-types in Bridge, as they are in everything.

      To improve your Bridge, theory and practice must go hand in hand.

      Bridge is a game of which much is learned through the mistakes made and heeded.

      Do not fail to profit in future games by the mistakes that you discover in present play.

      When you see clever plays that are new to you, analyse the motives that underlie them.

      The soundest play will sometimes lose, and the worst will sometimes win.

      Uniform good play, no matter what the luck may be, will ultimately triumph over bad play.

      Tricks heedlessly lost mar the successful enjoyment of Bridge.

      That you happily did not lose on a hand, is no palliation for the bad play of which you may have been guilty.

      Do not overlook the tricks which may be gained by the use of a little card strategy.

      Memory is simply a matter of observation and practice.

      Careful Bridge cultivates memory.

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