CONTENTS

All Fours PAGE
The Scoring Items [1]
Method of Playing [2]
Four-handed All Fours [3]
Baccarat
Baccarat Chemin de Fer [5]
Baccarat Banque [8]
Bézique
The Old-fashioned Game [12]
Hints for Play [15]
Rubicon Bézique [17]
The Laws of Rubicon Bézique [22]
Blind Hookey [32]
Cribbage [34]
The Five-card Game [35]
The Six-card Game [49]
The Seven-card Game [50]
Three-handed Cribbage [51]
Four-handed Cribbage [51]
Écarté [53]
The Laws of Écarté [53]
French Terms used in Écarté [61]
Illustrative Game [61]
Jeux de Règle [63]
Euchre [68]
Two-handed Euchre [69]
Four-handed Euchre [70]
Three-handed Euchre [72]
Marking the Score [72]
Hints for Play [73]
Loo
Three-card Loo [86]
Five-card Loo [89]
The Laws of Loo [91]
Napoleon
The Orthodox Game [94]
The Variations [96]
The Game Explained for Novices [99]
The Numbers of Players [102]
Piquet
The Deal [104]
Discarding and Taking in [105]
Calling [105]
The Play [107]
Carte Blanche [111]
Repique [111]
Pique [112]
Capot [112]
The Final Score [113]
Application of Skill [115]
Poker
The Varieties of the Game [120]
Draw Poker [120]
The Probabilities of the Various Combinations [130]
The Straddle [131]
Jack-pots [132]
Table Stakes [133]
Straight Poker [134]
Stud Poker [134]
Whiskey Poker [135]
Mistigris [136]
The Tiger [136]
Pope Joan [137]
Solo Whist
Description of the Game [142]
The Stakes [147]
A Digest of the Laws [149]
A Few Maxims [154]
Vingt-Un [157]
French Vingt-Un [163]
Whist
The Laws of Whist [166]
The Etiquette of Whist [183]
Dummy [184]
Double Dummy [185]
How to become a Good Player [185]
Leads [191]
Return Leads [195]
Second in Hand [196]
What to Play Third Hand [198]
The Play of the Fourth Hand [201]
The Call for Trumps [201]
The Echo to the Call [203]
Discarding [204]
The Use and Abuse of Trumps [205]
Underplay [208]
False Cards [209]
How to Play Whist [210]
Unblocking [212]
Placing the Lead [214]
The Play of the Twelfth and Thirteenth Cards [218]
Maxims [219]
Books on Whist [222]
Bridge
Relation to Whist [223]
The Score in Actual Practice [224]
Hints for Play [227]
The Laws of Bridge (1904) [228]
Books on Bridge [246]
Auction Bridge [247]
The Laws of Auction Bridge [248]
Hints to Players [252]
General Remarks [254]
Five Hundred [257]
Revokes [261]
Book on Five Hundred [262]
Quinto [263]
Dummy (or Three-Handed) Quinto [266]
Book on Quinto [266]
Poker Patience [267]
Serpent Poker Patience [268]
Backgammon
The Board and Men [271]
Playing [273]
Bearing off the Men [275]
Hints for Play [277]
Bagatelle
The Appliances of the Game [281]
How to Play [284]
Billiards
The Implements of the Game, and Terms used in connection with it [287]
The Half-ball Stroke [293], [298]
Losing Hazards into the Top Pockets from Baulk [302]
Middle-Pocket Hazards [305]
Position [307]
Losing Hazards [308]
Winning Hazards [309]
Cannons [311]
The Billiards Control Club Rules [320]
Pyramids [321]
Shell Out [322]
Works of Reference [323]
Pool
General Counsels [324]
The National Rules of Pool [325]
Snooker Pool
Description of the Game [331]
The National Rules of Snooker Pool [332]
Chess
The Board and Men [336]
The Movements of the Men and their Power to Take [337]
Chess Notation [343]
Example [345]
Technical Terms used in the Game [347]
Value of the Pieces [352]
The Openings [353]
The Giuoco Piano [354]
The Evans Gambit [363]
The Evans Gambit Declined [371]
The Two Knights' Defence [373]
The Ruy Lopez [377]
Philidor's Defence [381]
Three Knights' Game [383]
Four Knights' Game [384]
The Vienna Opening [385]
The Steinitz Gambit [386]
The Scotch Game [387]
The Scotch Gambit [389]
The Danish and Centre Gambits [391]
Petroff's Defence [392]
The King's Gambits
The King's Knight's Gambit [393]
The Muzio Gambit [394]
The Salvio Gambit [396]
The Kieseritzky Gambit [397]
The Allgaier Gambit [398]
The Cunningham Gambit [400]
The Bishop's Gambit [400]
The Gambit declined [403]
Close Games [405]
The French Defence [406]
The Sicilian Defence [408]
The Queen's Gambit [409]
The Fianchetto [409]
The End Game
King and Pawn against King [410]
King and Queen against King [415]
King and Two Rooks against King [417]
King and Rook against King [418]
King and Two Bishops against King [419]
King, Bishop and Knight against King [420]
End Game with Two Knights [423]
General Observations [424]
Bibliography of Chess [425]
Draughts
The Rules of the Game [427]
General Advice [432]
Names of the Various Openings and how Formed [433]
End Games
Two Kings to One [436]
Three Kings to Two [437]
The Elementary Positions
First Position [439]
Second Position [441]
Third Position [443]
Fourth Position [445]
Works of Reference [446]
Roulette
Description of the Game [447]
The Different Modes of Staking [449]
Systems
The "Montant et Demontant" System [455]
The Fitzroy System [455]
The "Labouchere" System [456]
Trente et Quarante
Description of the Game [464]
Staking [465]
Method of Play [469]

HOYLE’S GAMES
MODERNIZED
ALL-FOURS.

All-Fours, known in America as Old Sledge, or Seven Up, is usually played by two players, with the full pack of fifty-two cards, which rank in play as at Whist, the ace being the highest, and the two the lowest. The game is seven points.

There are four different items which count towards the score, whence the name All-Fours. Such items are as follows:

High.—The highest trump out, scoring one to the original holder.

Low.—The lowest trump out, scoring one to the original holder.