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| Joe Andrews Articles – 2001 Column of the Month Archive | |
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| Joe Andrews, Hearts expert and author of the books The Complete Win at Spades and The Complete Win at Hearts writes regular articles on Hearts, providing strategies, tips, advice, and more. | |
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| December 2001
Joe introduces Hearts partnership variations and demonstrates a squeeze play where partners earned a combined Moonshot. | |
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| November 2001
In the first part of his series on temporary alliances in Hearts strategy, Joe examines the ploy of "gunning for the low player" under various scenarios. | |
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| October 2001
Joe shows the distribution that would make the Moonshot possible in last month’s quiz, and he gives the thumbs rating -- up, down, or sideways -- to Hearts variations suggested by readers. | |
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| September 2001
Moonshot subtraction options, Queen of Spades breaking Hearts, five-point bonus for no tricks, and more. | |
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| August 2001
Learn the answers to last month's Pass scenarios. Did you get them right? | |
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| July 2001
Get the answers to June's challenge and see if you can find the answers to some Pass scenarios. | |
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| June 2001
Joe walks you through various scenarios involving “the elimination play,” wherein you strip low cards from your opponents’ hands before giving up the lead, and poses a trivia prize challenge. | |
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| May 2001
Joe discusses the full-circle evolution of the game from face-to-face to online to live tournaments for online players to meet. He then analyzes a great Moonshoot play. | |
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| April 2001
In his column of the month for April, Joe takes a look at various Hearts software packages, and lays out a play that shows the quality of one product’s artificial intelligence. | |
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| March 2001
The Spear Play For the March Column of the Month, Joe demonstrates how to count the high Spades to get rid of the Queen. | |
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| February 2001
Joe explains how the games evolved and the rules that have not been universally accepted.. | |
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| January 2001
H-E-A-R-T-S -- Joe Andrews takes a whimsical look at what each letter of the word "Hearts" could mean. | |
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