Rubber (card game)
In English, a rubber is generally understood to mean a competition that is carried out according to a best-of-three mode (or more rarely: best of five ). A Rubber is thus terminated once a party has two individual parts (Engl. Games or the Bridge also Some won).
The term Robber used in German is not common in English and is probably the result of a misunderstanding.
If a party wins the first two games in a row, the third is no longer played, and this is called a large rubber or quick rubber ; if three games are necessary, it is called a small rubber . The terms large and small are explained by the fact that a two-part rubber is awarded higher prizes in the whist or rubber bridge than a three-part rubber.
It is common to change upon completion of Rubbers either the partnerships or in the same constellation a second rubber, the so-called counter-Rubber to play, and after completion of the double Rubbers ( double rubber redefine the partnerships).
The game of games and rubbers can also be found in the Euchre or in scissors, stone, paper .
The origin of the English term rubber is not clear, the term has been used since the end of the 16th century.
Albert Stabenow writes in Kartenspiele (Leipzig, 1908) that the use of the term rubber (from English to rub , dt . To rub , wipe) possibly stems from the fact that after a party has won two games, you can wipe them up with a wiper has erased the results of the game recorded in chalk on a blackboard.
swell
- Friedrich Anton: Encyclopedia of Games , Leipzig 1889
- A. Hertefeld: Illustrated Whist Book. Theory and practice of the whist game for thorough learning for beginners and the more experienced . Kern publishing house, Breslau 1882.
- Merriam Webster's Third New International Dictionary, 1993
- Meyers Konversationslexikon from 1908
- Albert Stabenow: Card games , Philipp Reclam, Leipzig, 1908
credentials
- ↑ Online Etymology Dictionary - sense of deciding match in a game or contest is 1599, of unknown origin, and perhaps an entirely separate word