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The Theory And Practice Of Gamesmanship; Or, The Art Of Winning Games Without Actually Cheating.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: San Francisco : Hauraki Publishing, 2013Copyright date: ©2013Description: 1 online resource (82 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781786256782
Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: The Theory And Practice Of Gamesmanship; Or, The Art Of Winning Games Without Actually CheatingOnline resources:
Contents:
Intro -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS -- I-INTRODUCTORY -- Origins. -- 8th June 1931. -- II-THE PRE-GAME -- How to Start: The Flurry -- Clothesmanship. -- Counter-Gamesmanship. -- III-THE GAME ITSELF -- Some Basic Plays -- Sportsmanship Play. -- Playing-for-Fun Play. -- Nice Chapmanship. -- Audience Play. -- Ruggership and Ruggership Counter-play. -- Counterpoint. -- "My To-morrow's Match". -- Game Leg (also known as "Crocked Ankle Play", or "Gamesman's Leg" ). -- Jack Rivers Opening. -- IV-WINMANSHIP -- A Note on Concentration. -- When to Give Advice. -- When to be Lucky. -- V-LUNCHEONSHIP -- Believe, Trust, Want. -- Drinkmanship. -- Guestmanship. -- VI-LOSEMANSHIP -- The Primary Hamper. -- Potter's Improvement on the Primitive Hamper. -- The Secondary Hamper. -- Hampettes. -- The Natural Hampette. -- VII-GAME BY GAME -- GOLF -- 1. Splitting. -- 2. Caddie Play. -- An Isolated Instance. -- Simpson's Statue. -- BILLIARDS AND SNOOKER -- Snooker-player's Drivel. -- SQUASH-RACKETS -- BRIDGE AND POKER -- 1. Intimidation. -- 2. Two Simple Bridge Exercises for Beginners. -- 3. Split Bridge. -- LAWN TENNIS -- HOME GAMES -- Terminologies. -- "My Man Over the Hill." -- CHESS -- "Regardez la Dame" Play. -- Potter's Opening. -- Chess and Parentship, or Gamesplay against Children. -- Basic Chess Play. -- Johnsonian Capture. -- DARTS AND SHOVE-HALFPENNY -- CRICKET -- VIII-LOST GAME PLAY -- Bookmanism. -- Use of Bookmanism in Opponent's Putt-Play. -- IX-GAMESMANIA -- RANDOM JOTTINGS OF AN OLD GAMESMAN -- A QUEER MATCH -- GAMESMANSHIP AND LIFE -- APPENDIX I-THE KÖNINCK PORTRAIT OF DR. W. G. GRACE -- APPENDIX II-NOTE ON ETIQUETTE -- APPENDIX III-CHAPTER HEADINGS FROM "ORIGINS AND EARLY HISTORY OF GAMESMANSHIP" -- APPENDIX IV-DIET -- APPENDIX V-SOME EXTRACTS FROM THE "GAMESMAN'S HANDBOOK" FOR 1949.
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Gamesmanship as a civilised art is as old as the competitive spirit in man. It is polite psychological warfare. It is the moral equivalent of assault and battery. It is, as the subject of this book points out, The Art of Winning Games Without Actually Cheating. Anyone who has ever played any games for keeps has discovered the Gamesman either in himself or in an opponent. In its simplest terms the poker player's bluff is a device of gamesmanship. While winning games without actually cheating may seem to some scrupulous sportmen to be treading the fair-play borderline, the author points out 'The true Gamesman is always the Good Sportsman.' If you find your game is slipping, whatever it might be-golf, tennis, bridge, poker, chess, craps or croquet-this is the book for you. Apply the power of the 'ploy' or, as we would say, the 'Indian sign.' After reading Gamesmanship you, too, can win without actually cheating.--Print Ed.

Intro -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS -- I-INTRODUCTORY -- Origins. -- 8th June 1931. -- II-THE PRE-GAME -- How to Start: The Flurry -- Clothesmanship. -- Counter-Gamesmanship. -- III-THE GAME ITSELF -- Some Basic Plays -- Sportsmanship Play. -- Playing-for-Fun Play. -- Nice Chapmanship. -- Audience Play. -- Ruggership and Ruggership Counter-play. -- Counterpoint. -- "My To-morrow's Match". -- Game Leg (also known as "Crocked Ankle Play", or "Gamesman's Leg" ). -- Jack Rivers Opening. -- IV-WINMANSHIP -- A Note on Concentration. -- When to Give Advice. -- When to be Lucky. -- V-LUNCHEONSHIP -- Believe, Trust, Want. -- Drinkmanship. -- Guestmanship. -- VI-LOSEMANSHIP -- The Primary Hamper. -- Potter's Improvement on the Primitive Hamper. -- The Secondary Hamper. -- Hampettes. -- The Natural Hampette. -- VII-GAME BY GAME -- GOLF -- 1. Splitting. -- 2. Caddie Play. -- An Isolated Instance. -- Simpson's Statue. -- BILLIARDS AND SNOOKER -- Snooker-player's Drivel. -- SQUASH-RACKETS -- BRIDGE AND POKER -- 1. Intimidation. -- 2. Two Simple Bridge Exercises for Beginners. -- 3. Split Bridge. -- LAWN TENNIS -- HOME GAMES -- Terminologies. -- "My Man Over the Hill." -- CHESS -- "Regardez la Dame" Play. -- Potter's Opening. -- Chess and Parentship, or Gamesplay against Children. -- Basic Chess Play. -- Johnsonian Capture. -- DARTS AND SHOVE-HALFPENNY -- CRICKET -- VIII-LOST GAME PLAY -- Bookmanism. -- Use of Bookmanism in Opponent's Putt-Play. -- IX-GAMESMANIA -- RANDOM JOTTINGS OF AN OLD GAMESMAN -- A QUEER MATCH -- GAMESMANSHIP AND LIFE -- APPENDIX I-THE KÖNINCK PORTRAIT OF DR. W. G. GRACE -- APPENDIX II-NOTE ON ETIQUETTE -- APPENDIX III-CHAPTER HEADINGS FROM "ORIGINS AND EARLY HISTORY OF GAMESMANSHIP" -- APPENDIX IV-DIET -- APPENDIX V-SOME EXTRACTS FROM THE "GAMESMAN'S HANDBOOK" FOR 1949.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2018. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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