Scoring. The score of each four hands should be added up by each individual player, and the results tabulated at the end of every four hands, in the manner described for eight individuals. The winner is the player who loses the fewest tricks. This is the only known system for deciding whether or not a man can play whist better than his wife.
PROGRESSIVE DUPLICATE WHIST is the generic name by which those systems of duplicate are known in which the purpose is to have as many as possible of the players meet one another during the progress of the match. Most of the systems we have been describing belong to this class.
There are at present only two works on Duplicate Whist; but a number of articles on the subject may be found in “Whist.”
- Duplicate Whist; by John T. Mitchell, 1896.
- Foster’s Duplicate Whist; 1894.
- Whist; Jan., 1892; Jan., 1894; Aug., 1894; Oct., 1894; Jan., 1895: Mar., 1895; May, 1895; July, 1895; Oct., 1895.
THE LAWS OF DUPLICATE WHIST.
The Laws of Duplicate Whist as Amended and Adopted at the Whist Congress, Niagara Falls, New York, July, 1900; as amended at the Twelfth Congress, June, 1902; as amended at the Thirteenth Congress, July, 1903; Fourteenth A.W.L. Congress, July, 1904; Fifteenth Congress, July, 1905; Sixteenth Congress, July, 1906; Twentieth Congress, July 1910.
DEFINITIONS.
The words and phrases used in these laws shall be construed in accordance with the following definitions unless such construction is inconsistent with the context:
(a) The thirteen cards received by any one player are termed a “hand.”