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Definition of Finesses
1. finesse [v] - See also: finesse
Lexicographical Neighbors of Finesses
Literary usage of Finesses
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Good Bridge: A Classification and Analysis of the Best Plays as Played To by Charles Stuart Street (1907)
"Examples of finesses in No-Trump Playing Third in Hand Qxx Dummy Lead = x 1 AJx
Play jack ... finesses ..."
2. Advanced Bridge: The Higher Principles of the Game Analysed and Explained by Joseph Bowne Elwell (1905)
"WATCHING THE DISCARDS IN ORDER TO LOCATE finesses The amount of information to
be gained from the adversary's discards is apt to be underestimated. ..."
3. Foster's Pirate Bridge: The Latest Development of Auction Bridge, with the by Robert Frederick Foster (1917)
"POSTPONED finesses There are many hands in which it is evident to the declarer
that he must make a finesse in a certain suit, but this may be postponed ..."
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