The British Skat Association (BSA) was founded in 2001 to "promote the playing of Skat in Britain."
[''SKAT: Germany's national card game'']
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at weddslist.com. Retrieved 30 March 2021. Skat is Germany's national
card game
A card game is any game using playing cards as the primary device with which the game is played, be they traditional or game-specific.
Countless card games exist, including families of related games (such as poker). A small number of card ...
, but is played internationally under the auspices of the
International Skat Players Association The International Skat Players Association (ISPA) is the worldwide umbrella organisation for all competition Skat players. The ISPA was founded in 1976 by Peter Brand and Martha Prickartz in Aachen, Germany.
It initially crossed swords with the wo ...
and has been described as one of the best and most interesting card games for three players,
[''Skat'']
at pagat.com Pagat.com is a website containing rules to hundreds of card games from all over the world. Maintained by John McLeod, it contains information for traditional, commercial, and newly invented card games from all over the world. It has been described ...
. Retrieved 30 March 2021.[Keller, Thomas and Sebastian Kupferschmid, "Automatic Bidding for the Game of Skat" in ''KI 2008: Advances in Artificial Intelligence: 31st Annual German Conference on AI'', Kaiserslautern: Springer, 2008, p. 96. .] and "the king of German card games."
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Organisation
The BSA was launched in 2001 at a Skat tournament held in Oxford and organised by David Parlett
David Parlett (born 18 May 1939 in London) is a games scholar, historian, and translator from South London, who has studied both card games and board games. He is the president of the British Skat Association.
His published works include many pop ...
, John McLeod and Nick Wedd. The BSA holds several tournaments each year and plans eventually to affiliate to the International Skat Players Association and participate internationally.[ There are several forms of Skat played in different countries; the BSA plays the standard German game and the website offers an English version of the rules translated by Parlett.][
Present office holders of the BSA are:][
* President: David Parlett
* Secretary: John McLeod
* Treasurer: Nick Wedd
]
See also
* History of Skat
The history of the game of Skat or Scat began in the early 19th century in Thuringia. The game spread rapidly within German-speaking Europe and also in the US and is now one of the most popular card games in Germany as well as being considered Ger ...
* German Skat Association
The German Skat Association (german: Deutscher Skatverband) or DSkV is the umbrella organisation for German Skat clubs. It was founded on 12 March 1899 in Halle an der Saale and the headquarters of the club is the Skat town of Altenburg. From 19 ...
References
External links
''The British Skat Association''
official home page.
Organisations based in Oxford
Sports organisations of the United Kingdom
Skat (card game)
2001 establishments in the United Kingdom
Playing card organisations
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