The art of winning games without actually cheating / by Stephen Potter (author) and Frank Wilson (illustrator).

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Potter, Stephen, author.

Contributor:

Wilson, Frank, illustrator.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sportsmanship--Humor.

Sportsmanship.

Sportsmanship--Anecdotes.

Games--Humor.

Games.

Games--Anecdotes.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (82 pages) : illustrator

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] : Pickle Partners Publishing, [2015]

Summary:

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.

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.

Notes:

"The theory and practice of gamesmanship"--Cover.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781786256782

1786256789

OCLC:

974594687