Whether you are just setting out to discover the wonderful game of bridge, or have played for some time, your success will be limited without a sound understanding of the basic techniques of cardplay. In this series, two of the game's top writers explain clearly the various cardplay skills that you will need. Every booklet contains six chapters - each ending with a short Quiz. The topics covered in this eighth book, on Suit Contracts, are: Planning a suit contract Combining chances Preserving trump control Managing entries Elimination play Dummy reversals and crossruffs
This book is designed to turn moderately good bridge players into expert players of the cards, by use of novel and entertaining methods.
You can step up to the table with confidence after mastering the many concepts and strategies in this fascinating book: Bidding Basics and Basic Gameplay Playing as the Declarer and the Dummy Scoring: Contract/Overtrick Points Slam, Doubled ...
Here is the first book on Contract Bridge for beginners which introduces them at once to the generally accepted Point Count method of bidding used by the experts.
A lively guide to this popular card game uses scintillating stories to introduce readers to the great players, major tournaments, scandals, and strategies that make the bridge so legendary. Reprint. 20,000 first printing.
Covers suit combinations, communication problems, trump entries, trump control problems, master hand selection, opening leads, the squeeze play, the throw-in play, and matchpoint strategy, and provides sample hands to illustrate each point
Bridge: Winning Ways to Play Your Cards concentrates on the type of hands that will make a real difference to your scores and which will help you improve your game.
Contract Bridge: The Principles of Card Play
This brilliant book is the result of his collaboration with Hugh Kelsey whose skill at high-level analysis of bridge problems was equalled only by his ability as a writer able to express complex ideas in simple prose.
"In the 1970s, two of the best bridge writers of all time collaborated on a series of eight small books on a number of aspects of cardplay at bridge ... long out of print, [they] are republished now in two combined volumes, edited and ...
This book, by one of the first and foremost authorities on contract bridge, is regarded as the classic exposition of playing strategy. Practically all variations of play, both in attack and in defense, are explained and illustrated in it.