The Theory and Practice of Gamesmanship, or the Art of Winning Games without Actually Cheating - Softcover

Potter, Stephen

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1559212233 ISBN 13: 9781559212236

Publisher: Moyer Bell Ltd ,U.S., 2010

Synopsis

Offers psychological strategies

About this title

Synopsis

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.

About the Author

The book is edited by Professor Stephen Potter at the Open University with contributions from himself and a team with a wealth of multidisciplinary research training experience including Martin Le Voi, Chris High, Jane Montague, Wendy Stainton-Rogers, Theresa Lillis, Sarah North, John Oates, Trevor Collins, Ann Jones and Verina Waights.

Edition details

• Publisher: Moyer Bell Ltd ,U.S.
• Publication date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1559212233
• ISBN 13: 9781559212236
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 80