Pushkin is particularly important, as his short story The Queen of Spades ( 1833 ) was adapted into operas and movies by both Russian and foreign artists.

The band's success peaked between 1980 and 1981 with a number of UK chart hits, including the classic single " Ace of Spades ", which is still a crowd favourite today and the # 1 on the live album No Sleep ' til Hammersmith.

* Spades double: In variations where the trump card is chosen randomly, some play that if a spade is turned up, the points for that round double.

When the notrump bidder's partner does not invoke Stayman but instead calls 2 Hearts or 2 Spades, it is a sign of relative weakness ( since if responder held 8 HCP or more, he'd have invoked Stayman ).

* Spades ( A contract-type game similar to bid whist, popular in North America ; the game's name comes from the fact that spades is always the trump suit ).

The main difference between auction bridge and contract bridge is that in auction bridge a game is scored whenever the required number of tricks ( 9 in No Trump, 10 in Hearts or Spades, 11 in Clubs or Diamonds ) is scored, and in contract bridge the number of points from tricks taken past the bid do not count towards making a game.

* Boris Akunin's The Jack of Spades ( a Erast Fandorin story ), where Momus is the pseudonym assumed by a character

Play in Scum is organized into tricks, much like Spades or Bridge.

* Faro is central to the plot of Alexander Pushkin's story " The Queen of Spades " and Tchaikovsky's opera The Queen of Spades.

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The lowest game point level is 2, either with the Jack of Clubs or without the Jack of Clubs and with the Jack of Spades, plus declaring, which is a point always added.

Seven Spades is a card game, apparently created by Johan Wästlund in 2002.

Spades is a descendant of the Whist family of card games, which also includes Bridge, Hearts, and Oh, Hell.

It is unclear which game it is most directly descended from, but it is known that Spades is a member of the Whist family and is a simplification of Contract Bridge such that a skilled Spades player can learn Bridge relatively quickly ( the major additional rules being dynamic trump, the auction, dummy play, and rubber scoring ).

Bridge, Whist, Euchre, Spades, and the various Tarot card games are popular examples.

In the standard French deck, an ace has a single suit symbol ( a heart, diamond, spade, or club ) located in the middle of the card, sometimes large and decorated, especially in the case of the Ace of Spades.

The player sends his partner an undesirable card in hopes of receiving a 2, black Jack, or Queen of Spades to prevent the opponent from going out.

As with most decks, the first standard card of the deck is the uniquely-stylized Ace of Spades.

In 2010, Bicycle Playing Cards released special 125th anniversary decks which include a redesigned rear side, redesigned Ace of Spades, and 1885-2010 written under the numbers on the corner on each card.

For example, on December 5, 1882, George G. White was granted US design patent US0D0013473 for his ' Ace of Spades ' playing card design.

Saddam Hussein got the nickname " Ace of Spades " as his was the face which adorned that card.

The fanciful design and manufacturer's logo commonly displayed on the Ace of Spades began under the reign of James I of England, who passed a law requiring an insignia on that card as proof of payment of a tax on local manufacture of cards.

The Ace of Spades, unique in its large, ornate spade, is sometimes said to be the death card, and in some games is used as a trump card.

The United States Playing Card Company suggests that in the past, the King of Hearts was Charlemagne, the King of Diamonds was Julius Caesar, the King of Clubs was Alexander the Great, and the King of Spades was the Biblical King David ( see King ( playing card )).

When giving the full written name of a specific card, the rank is given first followed by the suit, e. g., " Ace of Spades ".

The Dead Man's Hand ( Ace of Spades, Ace of Clubs, Eight of Spades, Eight of clubs with a Jack of Diamonds as the fifth card ) is ranked highest.

Players draw for the first deal ; the person with the lowest-value card deals first, with suits ordered Spades > Hearts > Diamonds > Clubs as a tiebreaker.

* During Bleeding Mao, any people who see another's cards must say, for example, " Bleeding Queen of Spades ," and hand that person a card from the deck.

* Whenever a card of spades is placed on the stack, the player must say, " ___ of Spades.

The dealer specifies a card or class of card ( Jesters, Suicide Kings, Queen of Spades ) that trumps all trumps.

This card usually is the Ace of Spades, but any card can do.

* Double nil, a bid in the game of Spades

* Ace of Spades ( video game )

Spades was devised in the United States in the late 1930s and became popular in the 1940s.

Until August 4, 1960, decks of playing cards printed and sold in the United Kingdom were liable for taxable duty and the Ace of Spades carried an indication of the name of the printer and the fact that taxation had been paid on the cards.

In late 2010 Lemmy and Motorhead appeared in a commercial for Kronenbourg beer in which he played harmonica and sang along to a slower version of Ace of Spades.

After him in the 19th century in Russia there were written such operatic masterpieces as Rusalka and The Stone Guest by Alexander Dargomyzhsky, Boris Godunov and Khovanshchina by Modest Mussorgsky, Prince Igor by Alexander Borodin, Eugene Onegin and The Queen of Spades by Pyotr Tchaikovsky, and The Snow Maiden and Sadko by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov.

The object of such games then may be closely tied to the number of tricks taken, as in plain-trick games such as Whist, Contract Bridge, Spades, Napoleon, Rowboat, and Spoil Five, or on the value of the cards contained in taken tricks, as in point-trick games such as Pinochle, the Tarot family, Rook, All Fours, Manille, Briscola, and most " evasion " games like Hearts.

Of the original cards, 35 are in The Morgan Library & Museum, 26 are at the Accademia Carrara, 13 are at the Casa Colleoni and four: ' The Devil ', ' The Tower ', ' Money's Horse ( The Chariot )' and ' 3 of Spades ', are lost or else never made.

He made recordings of smaller groups ( sextets, octets, and nonets ) drawn from his then-15-man orchestra and he composed pieces intended to feature specific instrumentalist, as with " Jeep's Blues " for Johnny Hodges, " Yearning for Love " for Lawrence Brown, " Trumpet in Spades " for Rex Stewart, " Echoes of Harlem " for Cootie Williams and " Clarinet Lament " for Barney Bigard.

Most of the decks that have survived use the French Suit: Spades, Hearts, Clubs, and Diamonds.

In some variants, playing a king requires the player to say, " Hail to the Chairman " or " All hail the Chief ," and playing a queen requires the player to say, " Hail to the Chairwoman ", " Hail the Chairman's wife ," " All hail the chair lady ," or " All hail her Mighty Majesty the Queen of Spades.

Like Lisitsian, they sing Verdi and the works of their native composers, including Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin and The Queen of Spades.

By late 1980, the band had recruited two guitarists, and the setlist was made up of songs by bands such as Motörhead (" Overkill ", half of the Ace of Spades album ), Judas Priest (' Tyrant ' was their closer ), and Riot.

Spades are flat metal plates, usually attached to the aileron lower surface, ahead of the aileron hinge, by a lever arm.

* Games: Windows Me includes version 7. 1 of the DirectX API which introduced DirectPlay Voice, and also offers several new games: Internet Backgammon, Internet Checkers, Internet Hearts, Internet Reversi, Internet Spades.

This embellishment on the Ace of Spades started when King James VI of Scotland and I of England required an insignia of the printing house to be printed on the Ace of Spades.

The band was formed when Roky Erickson left his group The Spades, and joined up with Stacy Sutherland, Benny Thurman, and John Ike Walton who had been playing Texas coastal towns as The Lingsmen.