In one approach, each player recorded his hand in a register so that the cards for each hand, having been played to and gathered from the center of the table in the traditional way after each trick, could be reconstructed by sorting through the just played tricks and redistributing the cards in accordance with the register. Later, the method of playing to a trick by placing one's cards in front of oneself instead of to the middle of the table allowed the hands of each player to be remain intact. See Mitchell, John T. (1891). Duplicate Whist. Chicago, IL: A. C. McClurg and Co. OCLC9153326.
In one approach, each player recorded his hand in a register so that the cards for each hand, having been played to and gathered from the center of the table in the traditional way after each trick, could be reconstructed by sorting through the just played tricks and redistributing the cards in accordance with the register. Later, the method of playing to a trick by placing one's cards in front of oneself instead of to the middle of the table allowed the hands of each player to be remain intact. See Mitchell, John T. (1891). Duplicate Whist. Chicago, IL: A. C. McClurg and Co. OCLC9153326.
