2002 Daily Bridge Calendar
Each of the players must follow suit, meaning that they must play a card in the suit that's led if they have one. ... A trick! Whoever has played the highest heart takes the trick. One trick down and only 12 to go — you're on a roll!
Covers defensive strategies, interferences, ways of counting the hand, extra trump tricks, falsecarding, and lead-directing doubles
Covers leads, signaling, second- and third-hand play, and discarding, and includes practice hands and quizzes
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Test Your Bridge Play
unequally. divided. diamonds. In Figure 2-5, you can see that South holds four diamonds (♢K, ♢Q, ♢J, and ♢5), while North holds only two (♢A and ♢2). When one partner holds more cards in a suit, the suit is unequally divided.
Bridge Bidding Made Easy: A Modern Guide to the Language of the Game
Even if you have played bridge before, this book still has much to offer you. Author Eddie Kantar condenses his fifty years of experience with the game into tips and hints that can make you a better player.
Bridge boot camp — get a bird's-eye view of the game, from counting and taking sure tricks to using winning tricks and outsmarting your opponents at notrump play Trump the competition — discover the special know-how you need to bring ...
This is the fifth (and according to the author, the very last - but don't hold your breath ) edition of what is acknowledged to be the definitive book on a convention that every serious player uses.
As you read this chapter on defensive play against notrump contracts, you may notice how similar defensive play is to the play ... When you play defense, planning your plays becomes much harder because you can't see your partner's hand.
After reading this book, you will start making more contracts and you will be convinced your bidding has improved -- and you may be right.
The problems in this book are not for experts-they are, however, for those whose ambition is to become better bridge players.
In this book of novice to intermediate bridge problems, Eddie Kantar shows the reader how to do this - there is always a line of play that will allow you to take all your chances, and bring home your contract.
For this new collection, Eddie has selected the funniest stories from the two previous books, and added a number of new pieces.
More than fifty years after its first publication, this book has been revised and updated to bring it into line with modern methods of play and bridge education.
Provides over five hundred bidding tips for intermediate bridge players to improve their game, explaining how to count tricks and be aggressive, and covering the first response, overcalls, takeout doublers, preempting, negative doubles, and ...
If reading this book is your first exploration of the world of card play at bridge, you will find it much easier going than you had thought. You will be in the hands of a master.
More than fifty years after its first publication, this book has been revised and updated to bring it into line with modern methods of play and bridge education.