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The Bridge Blue Book

1906 · 172 pages

This is *The Bridge Blue Book*, a 1906 instructional reference compiled by Paul F. Mottelay on the card game Bridge. It is not a pulp fiction magazine, but rather a comprehensive guide featuring historical background, rules, and expert commentary. Contents include Bridge's origin (introduced to England in 1894 via Lord Brougham), evolving from Russian variants through Southern Europe; a detailed bibliography; American and English game laws; strategic sections on declarations, doubling, leads, and discards, organized with tabulated guides; coverage of variant games including Auction, Duplicate, Dummy, and Three-handed Bridge; and a glossary. The work synthesizes opinions from leading authorities of the period—Cavendish, Boaz, Professor Hoffmann, and others—debating whether Bridge constitutes a skill-based game or gambling, with contributors emphasizing the game's demand for judgment, probability assessment, and observation over elaborate scientific rules.

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