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The Theory And Practice Of Gamesmanship Or The Art Of Winning Games Without Actually Cheating | 
 enlarge | Author: Stephen Potter
Creator: Frank Wilson
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing, LLC
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  9 reviews
Sales Rank: 365017
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 128
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 8.8 x 5.9 x 0.4
ISBN: 1432574140
Dewey Decimal Number: 817
EAN: 9781432574147
ASIN: 1432574140
Publication Date: March 1, 2007
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What depth! January 31, 2007
I agree with the majority of reviewers here, but I think you have to be an intelligent reader to appreciate it. For example, on page 20, in golf the author discourages distracting activities while opponents are playing, but you could disturb opponents, especially musically competent ones, while you yourself are playing, "by constantly whistling a phrase with one note - always the same note - wrong." In the footnote he actually writes the musical notation of a suggested phrase, the horn motiv from Wagner's Ring, with the second note changed from an A to a D# with a glissando (sliding up to the high note). I laughed out load before I even tried to play the phrase on the guitar. I realize that some won't see the humor here, but what incredible depth in the descriptions of these tactics!
 Humourous, but bounded by time and culture... December 29, 2006
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
I first bought this book, thinking it would be along the lines of Sun Tzu meets Frazier...I wasn't disappointed, but the '50s writing style is not fluid to read
Buy this perfect little book June 5, 2006
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
I came across this at some rummage sale, and once I started reading it I was instantly hooked on Potter's dustbowl-dry wit and bought all his other books. Each is outstanding, but this is still the best. For the uninitiated, this has nothing to do with playing games; it has everything to do with attitude, games people play with and against one another in life, and poking fun at our egos and self importance...and the egos and self-importance of others. There's no explaining Potter's humor - you either love it, or you don't get it at all. I love it. Even the 'diagrams' are absolute screams. Only Wodehouse was as funny or funnier than Potter.
An Excellent Treatise September 10, 2005
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This tome offers a complete introduction to the theory and practice of gamesmanship. Though some of the ploys are outdated, if properly executed, these gambits will most certainly put the gamesman in the one-up position. The coverage of countergamesmanship, while sparse, is essential reading for gamesman at any level.
The original September 14, 2004
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
This book instantly turned me into a Potter fiend, and I subsequently tracked down first editions of all four -manship books. This is dry, deadpan British humour at its absolute finest - I've never seen an American writer come close, except for Mark Twain.
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