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RECOMMENDATION #90 HUGO KASTNER RECOMMENDS PLAYERS: Designer: Ely Cubertson 4 (für ) AGE: BRIDGE Price: je nach Ausgabe 12+ Year: 1926/27 (Contract Bridge) KING OF CARD GAMES Publisher: all playing card comp. TIME: http://www.greatbridgelinks.com/ 60+ Dear readers! Nobody would doubt today in Now for the three basic elements of Bridge earnest that Bridge has to be considered the which immediately shine out in the light of ˜˜˜˜˜˜˜˜˜ most noble of all. Bridge is not only the game to each fan of bridge: First there is Tactic Info+ Chance exceedingly popular in families and clubs, the idea of choosing – it is fixed in a but as a tournament game poses enormous bidding system. This defining mechanic was Tournament Bridge is played with at least eight players, four in a team, and the hands of your demands on card memory and bidding abili- already known from the solo games Prefer- partners at the other table are handed to your ties as well as professional assessment of your ence, Solo and Boston as well as from opponents for a second game. This avoids any hand. So it is not surprising that it is hard for a Russian Vint, a game by all means similar to factor of chance or luck in dealing. beginner to learn Bridge up to master standard. Bridge. The second important element was Hugos EXPERT TIP The game originates from the end of the 19th the introduction of a “Dummy”, who allowed Find an expert to explain Bridge to you. Learning century, via a number of predecessors like a game for three players with an open hand Bridge from a book is possible, but the intricacies Bid Whist, Dummy Whist, Bridge-Whist and (Dummy Whist). Notations above and below can only be acquired in practical play, starting . All these games are rather ap- the line are considered to have been the third already with the bidding procedure and continu- ing throughout the game. pealing, especially for the not yet experienced innovation. player. The intention was to improve the depth That means that the bonuses for Honneurs Hugos FLASHLIGHT and variety of classic, simple Whist with those which did not demand card abilities could Finally, I would like to emphasize in „Flashlight“ trick variants. Until today it remains in the dark influence the value of the score, but not win- that Bridge is so difficult that numerous prob- where the name comes from, and also where ning itself. If you did not score a certain num- lems on hands are published in thousands of books and journals. You can devote the rest of it was played for the first time. It is today con- ber of points with the tricks you announced your life to this luxurious game – but I would sidered to be a typical Anglo-Saxon game, but you could very probably not win. Bridge is not recommend this, considering the number the first game might well have been played in the first game which combined those three of excellent games available. I hope to have built a bridge with this highlight to my readers who the triangle Athens-Cairo-Constantinople, so- elements in a perfect way, which is the rea- are interested in the history of games. metimes between 1880 and 1885. In the transi- son for its enormous world-wide success. You tional variety of Bridge-Whist there was no real need to distinguish between two variants for PREVIEW: bidding yet, the dealer simply announced the use at home, 1) the so-called Rubber Bridge, AGE OF STEAM trump color or left the decision to his opposite a game in which the aim is to score twice 100 THE AGE OF STEAM À LA WALLACE partner, thus building a „bridge”. If this really is points below the line, that is, to win the rub- the source for the name is left to supposition to- ber; and 2) Four-Hand Bridge, better known day. Shortly after the turn of the century (1904) by the name of Chicago, in which each player Auction Bridge appeared, a variant with a real deals once. The name of this variant derives auction. In the French version Plafond nota- from the “Standard Club of Chicago”, which tions where already put above and below the was the cradle for this short version of Bridge. line. And from this, probably, the today domi- Contrary to all other card games you might nant Contract Bridge, or Bridge, did develop, encounter Bridge is almost celebrated with promoted by worldwide publicity from the an enormous emphasis on gaming etiquette, American millionaire Vanderbilt and eccentric maybe best compared to the traditional co- Ely Culbertson. dex of „Königrufer“ in Tarock. So, in order to Remarkable is the enormously differentiated be socially “in” you need to stringently adhere scoring system with various bonuses, a Danger to some of those rules. It is best to make a Zone, Slam etc. [from: Kastner, Hugo/Folkvord, clean start from your first game on! [from: Gerald (2005): Die große Humboldt Enzyklopä- Kastner, Hugo/Folkvord, Gerald (2005): Die die der Kartenspiele. Humboldt: Baden-Baden.] große Humboldt Enzyklopädie der Karten- My suggestion: Come to the Austrian Games spiele. Humboldt: Baden-Baden.] Museum at Leopoldsdorf im Marchfeld to ex- perience the finesses of this classic games in a Comments to: [email protected] friendly tournament. Website: www.spielen.at Homepage: www.hugo-kastner.at  IMPRESSUM Offenlegung nach dem Mediengesetz: Medieninhaber, Eigentümer, Verleger und Hersteller: Verein „Österreichisches Spiele Museum“, vertreten durch Obfrau Dipl. Ing. Dagmar de Cassan, Raasdorferstrasse 28, 2285 Leopoldsdorf im Marchfelde, Österreich, Telefon 02216-7000, mail-to: [email protected], Internet: www.spielejournal.at - www.gamesjournal.at - Chefredakteur: Dipl.Ing. Dagmar de Cassan Blattlinie: Die Blattlinie ist die Meinung aller Redakteure, freien Mitarbeitern und Gastautoren. Die Spiele zur Erstellung der Rezensionen stellt das Österr. Spiele Museum für die Dauer der Arbeit kostenlos zur Verfügung. Niemand erhält Sach-,Service-, Geldleistungen von den Verlagen. 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Icon explanation GABIS explanation on page 5 Solo Play Two Players Large Groups Recommended Mimimum Age 67