Edmond Hoyle

Edmond Hoyle

Edmond Hoyle also Edmund Hoyle (* 1672 ; † August 29, 1769 ) was a British games expert in the 18th century.

Life

Little is known about the life of Edmond Hoyle; possibly he trained as a lawyer. In 1741, Hoyle began working as a whist teacher for members of the upper class and wrote the booklet A Short Treatise on the Game of Whist , which he sold to his students. This work became very popular and unauthorized copies began to circulate. To avoid this, Hoyle had his work protected by copyright .

Building on the success of this writing, Hoyle wrote other short books on backgammon , chess , quadrille (a game similar to L'Hombre for four people), piquet and brag (a forerunner of the game of poker ). In 1746 these brochures appeared in a single volume.

The first editions of Hoyle's works are in great demand for collectors' items; two copies of the first edition of Short Treatise on the Game of Whist have survived , one of which is in the Bodleian Library in Oxford. A copy of the first edition of his work on backgammon still exists in the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center at the University of Texas in Austin.

Hoyle's book on whist was considered authoritative until 1864 when John Loraine Baldwin revised the rules and these were adopted by the Arlington and Portland Club .

The expression according to Hoyle , which is common in English-speaking countries, means as much as strictly according to the rules. Hoyle's Short Treatise on the Game of Whist , however, was less a description of the rules than an instruction in the basic principles of the game.

Many modern books on games, such as

• The Complete Hoyle's Games Revised & updated by Lawrence H. Dawson, London 1950, Wordsworth Reference, reprint 1994, ISBN 1-85326-316-8
• Albert H. Morehead, Richard L. Frey, Geoffrey Mott-Smith: The New Complete Hoyle Revised , Doubleday, New York, 1991
• Albert H. Morehead, Geoffrey Mott-Smith: Hoyle's Rules of Games , 2nd revised edition. A Signet Book, 1983

contain the name Hoyle in the title, but this only means that these works are in the tradition of Edmond Hoyle. Edmond Hoyle was inducted into the Poker Hall of Fame in 1979 in memory of his services to various games .

Honors

• 1979 Hoyle in which was Poker Hall of Fame appointed

literature

• David Parlett : The AZ of card games . OUP, Oxford 2004, ISBN 0-19-860870-5 (New edition of The Oxford Dictionary of Card Games and The Oxford Guide to Card Games)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ utexas.edu ( Memento from June 21, 2006 in the Internet Archive )