Talk:Belote

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[edit] To merge or not, some background info

The "Bridge-Belote" game, as played in Bulgaria, definitely descends from French Belote and is a close relative of Croatian Bela. There are some differences, though (I compare to these rules):

  • There is no face-up card in the bidding phase. Anyone is free to bid anything, as far as it is higher than the current best bid.
  • A carré (four of a kind) is not higher than a quint (a five-card sequence). They can co-exist peacefully.
  • Arbitration of declarations is done after the last trick, and the cards included in declarations are never shown during the first trick.
  • Undertrumping (French: pisser) is not required.
  • A game does not end at 1000 points, but ends at 151 rounded-up points (the result of each dealing is divided by 10).

There could be more. Note also, that the rules described in Belote (Bulgaria) are not complete (my fault), e.g. "hanging results" and "arbitration of declarations" (or whatever they should be called) are missing.

As the similarities are more than the differences, I'd support creating a common description for the "Belote family of games", either as a separate article, or as a section within Belote. If the differences are not sufficient for Belote (Bulgaria) to exist, I wouldn't mind it becoming just another section of Belote, but I believe there will eventually come up enough of them. Note, that versions of Belote are played in other communities as well (AFAIK Serbs, Armenians, Jews), possibly with local specifics.

There has been a discussion in bg.wikipedia recently about how belote and bridge-belote should be interwikied. It was suggested that belote is an equivalent of "skambil" (Bulgarian: скамбил, I don't know what exactly it is...) and bridge-belote (which is locally known simply as belote) is the French "Coinche".

Btw, the "strategy" section needs expansion. The "cheating" section needs cleanup — some of the stuff there is common for all card games. It would also be nice to have an "Etiquette" section, not to leave the impression that Belote cannot be played honestly.

--Cameltrader 11:58, 12 August 2006 (UTC)

Some of the differences you list are also present in some variants of the French belote: undertrumping is not always required, and the number of poins needed to win can vary. If there are no other differences, I think we should merge the articles, and have a section "regional differences": a section on the Bulgarian variant would only be five lines long, according to your list. The main features, such as the ordering of the cards and counting the points, are the same.
Coinche is a different game, in which you have to declare how many points you will score (e.g. "120 points, trump Hearts", and a higher bid would be "130 points, trump Spades"). Pruneautalk 13:35, 12 August 2006 (UTC)
Personally, I wouldn't oppose. Let's wait some more, maybe a week, so that others can express their opinion. I'll post a link at the Bulgarian talk page mentioned above, and call for a discussion here. It would be nice to get info from people living in other countries too — in this case we should get the lowest common denominator for a shared "Rules" paragraph.
Btw, I haven't read yet the Wikipedia policy about mergers, but it would be good to start copying and adjusting the "Rules" into this page. It needs to be done anyway. --Cameltrader 18:20, 12 August 2006 (UTC)

OK, no objections, so I start moving the contents of Belote (Bulgaria) into Belote. --Cameltrader 10:44, 18 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Expansion of "Rules"

The article's content was merged from Belote (Bulgaria), now a redirect. The "Rules" section needs to be expanded with local rules, as played in other countries, and Bulgarian-only rules need to be marked as such. The rules about "hanging results" and "arbitration of declarations" (not sure about the right terminology) should be added. --Cameltrader 11:55, 18 August 2006 (UTC)

I'll add information on the French rules next week, using fr:Belote. Thanks for doing the merge, great job! Pruneautalk 14:00, 18 August 2006 (UTC)

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I reverted the replacement of "preceeding" with "left", and of "following" with "right". Note, that belote is sometimes played clockwise.

The paragraph about the "face-up card in the middle" should be merged into the "Bidding" section. This is a major difference between versions of belote — some use bridge-like bidding, others form take-it-or-not contracts. I deleted the paragraph because it was copy-pasted from http://www.pagat.com/jass/belote.html

In which language are these: "An-khos", "Dip-khos"? --Cameltrader 16:07, 29 August 2006 (UTC)

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