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Its original French name is Trèfle which means "clover" and the card symbol depicts a three-leafed clover leaf.The Italian name is Fiori ("flower"). However, the English name "Clubs" is a translation of basto, the Spanish name for the suit of batons, suggesting that Spanish-suited cards were used in England before French suits were invented.
Getting its name from the Standard Club of Chicago where it originated in the early 1960s, [1] [3] the game is well suited to club and home play. [4] While the auction and the play of the hand are the same as in rubber bridge, Chicago has the following unique features: A rubber consists of exactly four deals.
In 1922, August Petryl & Son produced a tarock deck with black clubs, yellow diamonds, pink hearts, and green spades in the United States. They were sold in two versions, a full 78-card deck and a 54-card deck. [3] The smaller deck is structured the same as Industrie und Glück decks as it was designed to play a variant of Königrufen. [4]
The following is a list of nicknames used for individual playing cards of the French-suited standard 52-card pack. Sometimes games require the revealing or announcement of cards, at which point appropriate nicknames may be used if allowed under the rules or local game culture. King (K): Cowboy, [1] Monarch [1] King of Clubs (K ♣): Alexander [2]
The inverting of suits had no purpose in terms of play but was an artifact from the earliest games. These Turko-Arabic cards, called Kanjifa, used the suits coins, clubs, cups, and swords, but the clubs represented polo sticks; Europeans changed that suit, as polo was an obscure sport to them. The Latin suits are coins, clubs, cups, and swords.
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The first meeting of the Chicago Club was held on May 1, 1869. [5] The first clubhouse was destroyed by fire in the Great Chicago Fire of 1871, so the club moved to 279 Michigan Avenue for two years, and then to the Gregg House at 476 Wabash Avenue. In 1876 the club built its first permanent home on Monroe Street across from the Palmer House. [6]