This book, starting from the basics, explains how to make a plan as a declarer. The reader learns how to recognise which technique to apply on a given deal, both in notrump contracts and suit contracts.
Written for complete beginners, this book is based on material that Barbara Seagram uses in her own classes to introduce hundreds of new players to the game every year.
Hailed by the American Bridge Teachers' Association as the "Book of the Year." Line drawings.
This is not just a series of problem hands, however. Each section contains a brief introduction of its topic, and the ideas are reinforced with carefully explained solutions and helpful tips throughout.
Seagram and Bird's Planning the Play of a Bridge Hand was named Book of the Year in 2010 by the American Bridge Teachers' Association.
This is part of a twelve book series that will add an extra dimension to the Bridge Technique series (Bird & Smith), which won the American Bridge Teachers' Association Book of the Year award in 2002.
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.
This completes the conversion into classroom format begun in Jonathan Shute's Planning the Play of a Bridge Hand, Teacher's Manual for Part I. Six two-hour lesson plans are laid out with a word-by-word script, a review handout to give to ...
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Building on the success of 'Planning the Play of a Bridge Hand', this book gives the near-beginner a chance to practice the principles on which sound defensive play is based, from the opening lead onwards.
This does not apply to novices, who spend a lot of mental effort on them. The book will help the novice player to develop their recognition of these situations. Winner of the 2012 ABTA Book of the Year of the Award!