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 | 15 Winning Cardplay Techniques
by David Bird and Tim Bourke
List Price: $19.95 Price: $16.96 You Save: $2.99 (15%)
Your dummy play needs improving, right? You would like a few new tricks up your sleeve? This is the book for you. You will find the reading experience enjoyable and illuminating. Two of the world's best bridge writers have produced a fine summary of fifteen declarer play techniques. Tim Bourke's elegant and instructive deals illustrate the many variations of each technique. Everything is explained by David Bird with the clarity and lean writing style for which he is well known.
200 pages. Paperback.
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 | Bid To Win - Play For Pleasure
by George Rosenkranz and Phillip Alder
List Price: $12.00 Price: $6.72 You Save: $5.28 (44%)
The Romex system has exjoyed considerable success in national championships throughout North America. This book sets out to present in the first half a simple version of the system. You will learn the basic structure with the key use of controls losers and cover cards to aid the location of accurate contracts. Given that you will use the Romex opening bids you can become familiar with them by emplying your own responding methods. However the work of numerous experts has produced many many improvements to "standard." We consider these refinements in the second part of the book.
428 pages. Paperback.
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 | Bridge At The Edge
by Boye Brogeland & David Bird
List Price: $21.95 Price: $17.56 You Save: $4.39 (20%)
An in-depth, over-the-shoulder look at top-level bridge. While describing almost 200 deals that he played in World and European Championships, one of the world's best players, Boye Brogeland, discusses bidding and cardplay, as well as his approach to the mental side of the game. This is a fascinating glimpse into the thought processes of a champion bridge player, as well as a look at state-of-the-art bidding methods, some of which are described here for the first time.
245 pages. Paperback.
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 | Bridge Master: The Best of Edgar Kaplan
by The Bridge World
List Price: $26.95 Price: $18.33 You Save: $8.62 (32%)
Edgar Kaplan was publisher and editor of The Bridge World for over 30 years. This book celebrates his many significant contributions to the game and its literature. The articles and stories are intertwined with lots of great deals that he played, reported, or constructed.
256 pages. Hardcover.
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 | Bridge Quiz Defence
by Raymond & Sally Brock
List Price: $16.00 Price: $7.68 You Save: $8.32 (52%)
Bridge defence is probably the hardest part of the game mainly because it's difficult to spot the danger signs. Many of the deals in Bridge Quiz: Defence address this problem asking you to plan your defence before the critical point has been reached. It will increase your powers of visualization and as a result expand your ability as defender.
128 pages. Paperback.
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 | Bridge: Defending Together
by Freddie North
List Price: $17.00 Price: $13.43 You Save: $3.57 (21%)
It's important that partners cooperate--interpreting the bidding correctly and being on the same wavelength--and here's how they can do just that. There are answers to such questions as "What can I infer from my partner's lead?" and "Is my partner's suggested line of defense worth pursuing?" as well as discussions of maintaining communication, avoiding a bath coup, blocking and unblocking, creating an entry, helping a partner avoid mistakes, and much more, Example hands and revision quizzes accompany the explanations, reinforcing the invaluable tactical lessons.
160 pages. Paperback.
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 | Clever Plays In The Trump Suit
by David Bird
List Price: $19.95 Price: $15.76 You Save: $4.19 (21%)
An intermediate-level discussion of declarer play, this book focuses on the power of the trump suit. Its subjects include trump timing--should you draw all the defenders' trumps straight away, some of their trumps, or perhaps perform some other vital task first? -- and situations where you need to unblock in the trump suit or to put a defender on lead with a trump. The reader will learn how to make maximum use of the entries provided by the trump suit, and how to perform a trump safety play or a trump avoidance play. Two other important topics are how to make your contract against a bad trump break and how you can survive a forcing attack on the long-trump holding. Later chapters explain how to play contracts with fewer than eight trumps at your disposal, and also how to conjure extra tricks from the trump suit. Every couple of chapters or so, there is a 9-problem quiz section.
206 pages. Paperback.
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 | Defensive Signalling at Bridge
by David Bird
List Price: $19.95 Price: $12.77 You Save: $7.18 (36%)
The author begins this thorough discussion of a neglected but vital topic by examining the real purpose of defensive signalling, and the basic kinds of signals that are available. He goes on to recommend a comprehensive set of signalling agreements, and analyzes more complex situations in the light of these agreements. Most of the chapters are followed by a quiz, the answers to which will demonstrate the effectiveness of the recommended signal. The book finishes with a chapter that looks at the signalling methods of eight world-class pairs, with examples of their methods in action. A book any player looking to improve their results will want to read.
220 pages. Paperback.
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 | Double Elimination: A Bridge Mystery
by Jim Priebe
List Price: $19.00 Price: $7.60 You Save: $11.40 (60%)
Art Fraser, the bridge-playing detective who made his debut in Takeout Double, is faced with a new mystery. Bodies are coming to light in cottage country in upper New York state, and once again bridge seems to be an intrinsic part of the case. Fraser has to wrestle with problems in his personal life too, as he faces career and family decisions at the same time as he is tracking down a ruthless killer.
160 pages. Paperback.
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 | Expert Bridge Simplified
Arithmetic Shortcuts For Declarer
by Jeff Rubens
List Price: $23.95 Price: $17.72 You Save: $6.23 (26%)
This book takes a lighthearted approach to tackling challenging problems, and demystifies bridge mathematics for the practical player. After mastering the basic techniques for declarer, bridge players improve by applying those procedures more effectively. The most common question among those who study declarer's craft is: "How do I calculate the odds?" Even highly experienced players sometimes struggle with reevaluating chances, restricted choice, and drawing inferences from cards played by the opponents. This book demystifies bridge mathematics and puts it in its proper place. Basic ideas point to preferred lines of play, but complicated and exact calculations are downplayed. Practical players will learn how to win through the use of "shortcuts," while those intrigued by the theory will find useful tools. The book's lighthearted approach emphasizes that the effort to find the best move should never be allowed to interfere with having fun. "Jeff Rubens has produced a magnum opus... Anyone wanting to improve should read it..." --The New York Times
416 pages. Paperback.
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 | Fantunes Revealed
by Bill Jacobs
List Price: $15.95 Price: $12.76 You Save: $3.19 (20%)
Not since the introduction of Precision has a new bidding system created such an immediate impact as Fantunes, the unique methods of Fulvio Fantoni and Claudio Nunes, the world's number one ranked pair. The Italians have several world championship wins to their name, and their system has played a major role in that success. This book delves into the system, explaining how it works and, just as importantly, why it works. Two words best describe Fantunes: natural and fun. This is the definitive text for those who would like to try an innovative and proven new bidding system.
170 pages. Paperback.
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 | Fit For A King
by Sally Brock and Barry Rigal
List Price: $18.00 Price: $10.44 You Save: $7.56 (42%)
I am delighted to see that the BOLS prizewinners have been collected together to make such a fascinating book. There are a number of hands her that I have either never seen before of or simply forgotten about altogether. * I am especially pleased to that the book actually tells us a little bit about what makes the player's tick. It would have been all too easy to publish a list of everyone's achievements, and leave us knowing nothing about the player's away from the table. Thanks to this book, I feel I know some of my friends and acquaintances just a little better."--Omar Sharif
136 pages. Paperback.
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 | Focus on Bidding
by Danny Roth
List Price: $18.00 Price: $7.92 You Save: $10.08 (56%)
This is not a book about systems, nor is it a book about conventions (although I confess I shall attempt to persuade you to adopt one or two in the course of it). This is a book about bidding and the places in the auction that we (and I use the word advisedly) go wrong. I don't care whether you prefer to play a weak or a strong notrump, or eight-card majors, or the Purple Spotted Forcing Club. But I do care about how you decide when to bypass a major to bid one notrump, or what constitutes a decent opening bid, and why, and what sequences you regard as forcing. You see what I mean about 'bidding' as opposed to 'system'? - Danny Roth
160 pages. Paperback.
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 | Focus on Declarer Play
by Danny Roth
List Price: $15.00 Price: $8.40 You Save: $6.60 (44%)
For most intermediate bridge players, declarer play is both fascinating and challenging, but too often they are left after a hand is over with the sinking feeling that they could have done better. In this book, acclaimed British author Danny Roth takes his readers through the most common causes of errors on play: mishandling communications, making errors involving trumps, failing to take advantage of all possible chances, and many more. He explains how to recognize the danger signals, and how to avoid the pitfalls. The situations he describes are encountered every day; careful study of the examples in this book will make the reader a better card player, and improved scores will certainly follow.
128 pages. Paperback.
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 | How The Experts Win At Bridge
by Burt & Lynn Rose-Hall
List Price: $17.00 Price: $9.18 You Save: $7.82 (46%)
Represents the best thinking of the experts on every aspect of the game.
264 pages. Paperback.
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 | Improve Your Play At Trump Contracts
by Ron Klinger
List Price: $18.95 Price: $15.92 You Save: $3.03 (16%)
Following the successful Improve Your Declarer Play at Notrumps, Ron Klinger shows how to make the most of your assets in trump contracts. When to cross-ruff and many more topics are covered to make you a better declarer and make that extra trick or two to give you a top score.
128 pages. Paperback.
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 | Improve Your Slam Bidding
by Ron Klinger
List Price: $18.95 Price: $15.92 You Save: $3.03 (16%)
Bidding in the slam area has developed rapidly over the past twenty years and players are bidding slams more often and more accurately. In this book Ron Klinger shows how to judge whether slam is likely or not and reveals the methods to find the critical cards in partner's hand, whether it is to stay out of a poor slam, bid a good small slam, or find an excellent grand slam.
128 pages. Paperback.
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 | It's All In The Game
The Fun Side Of Winning Bridge
by Bob Ewen and Jeff Rubens
List Price: $23.95 Price: $20.84 You Save: $3.11 (13%)
Expert-level bridge is a serious game but that doesn't mean it can't be wild, wacky and downright fun! In this humorous book, Bob Ewen and Jeff Rubens bring us some of the funniest bridge stories ever collected. The bridge is top-notch, and the zany cast of characters and their escapades are unforgettable. Come join them and take a look into the fun side of winning bridge!
236 pages. Paperback.
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 | Kantar on Kontract
by Eddie Kantar
List Price: $16.95 Price: $10.51 You Save: $6.44 (38%)
A treasury of short pieces from one of the bridge world's favorite writers. Great stories, great hands, tips and tricks to help your game - the best of the best!
192 pages. Paperback.
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 | Maastricht Challenge Bridge Quiz
by Tim Bourke
List Price: $16.00 Price: $7.04 You Save: $8.96 (56%)
Tim Bourke invites you to pit your wits against 60 challenging declarer-play problems, many of which are from the World Championships, including the Maasticht Olympiad. The deals cover a wide variety of themes with particular emphasis on techniques that are poorly represented in bridge literature, such as trump, criss-cross and multi-loser squeezes. By going over the problems again and again the reader can greatly enhance his or her expertise in these and other areas.
128 pages. Paperback.
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 | Planning The Play Of A Bridge Hand
by Barbara Seagram & David Bird
List Price: $20.00 Price: $15.80 You Save: $4.20 (21%)
Beginning bridge players are taught some of the basic techniques of declarer play: suit establishment, ruffing losers, the finesse, and so forth. The hard part is learning when each applies. There is that terrible moment when the dummy comes down, and the novice declarer has no idea even how to start thinking about the right things. This book, starting from the basics, explains how to make a plan as declarer. The reader learns how to recognize which technique to apply on a given deal, both in notrump contracts and suit contracts. By the end of the book readers will be comfortable with slightly more advanced material, such as entry management and elementary counting.
232 pages. Paperback.
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 | Play It Again, Slam
Pastiches and Parodies
by Phillip & Robert King
List Price: $16.00 Price: $8.96 You Save: $7.04 (44%)
This is the fifth book in the entertaining series of bridge novellas based on the writings of famous authors. The Fall of Freddie Haversham is a parody of the writing of Somerset Maugham. Play it Again, Slam breaks new ground by being based on a film - Casablanca. Finally The Bridge of Spies is an original story in the style of the best crime and gangster writers. * The authors have selected the hands both for their bridge instruction and for their entertainment value and both bridge players and lovers of English literature will be enthralled as the plot unfolds. * The authors' previous works have received glowing tributes, particularly in The New York Times. Alan Truscott wrote, "Each year it is possible to rank bridge books in two ways, by the quality of the deals and by entertainment. This year, for the first time for...almost half a century the same book tops both lists."
128 pages. Paperback.
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 | Pocket Guide to Acol Bridge
by Mark Horton & Barbara Seagram
List Price: $10.00 Price: $7.90 You Save: $2.10 (21%)
The original Pocket Guide to Bridge has sold more than 30,000 copies since it was published in 2002. Thousands of bridge players have found it an indispensable and handy guide to bidding, something that can be tucked into a purse or pocket and easily used as a reference at the table during lessons and practice games. This version is based on the Acol bidding system for readers in the UK and other places where it is played, and will doubtless be as popular as the original.
64 pages. Booklet.
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 | Psychic Bidding
Everything You Need To Know But Were Afraid To Ask
List Price: $4.99 Price: $2.00 You Save: $2.99 (60%)
"My friend Bernard Trippett has in this work, presented a scholarly treatment of a difficult subject and has succeeded in making it interesting in the extreme. He handles the language with great skill and at times raises hist story to exciting pitches. * I am quite sure that the reader will profit by reading this presentation and am equally sure he will be well repaid in entertainment for the time he has devoted to it."--Charles Goren
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 | Robin Hood's Bridge Memoirs
by David Bird
List Price: $20.00 Price: $8.80 You Save: $11.20 (56%)
Sequel with eleven new stories from Sherwood Forest providing humor and instruction.
144 pages. Paperback.
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 | Swiss Match Challenge
by Jeff Rubens
List Price: $11.95 Price: $10.52 You Save: $1.43 (12%)
Challenge these hands, have some fun, and gain the judgment and insight needed to become a winning player. Try to find the best call or play--then check the analysis to help strengthen your bidding and play and see how your decisions turn out.
234 pages. Paperback.
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 | The Abbot, The Witchdoctor And The Disastrous Double
by David Bird
List Price: $19.95 Price: $17.36 You Save: $2.59 (13%)
In this eleventh collection in the celebrated series of humorous revelations about the bridge-playing monks of St Titus, the pompous and self-important Abbot travels to the Upper Bhumpopo mission in Africa. He plays against the Witchdoctor, the Parrot, Mrs Okuku and Miss Nabooba, Mhozi and Mjubu - characters that are familiar from earlier books in the series. Regular followers will know what to expect - a first-rate mixture of excellent bridge, entertaining characters and sparkling dialogue.
128 pages. Paperback.
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 | The Amazing Queen
Winning With Your Queens
by Clement Wong
List Price: $14.95 Price: $13.16 You Save: $1.79 (12%)
Written by a former captain of the Hong Kong Team and long-time bridge columnist, this is the first bridge book on winning by skillful bidding and play surrounding the queens--from queen camouflage to queen sacrifice (both real and sham) to queen defense--inspired by the author's 1993 Bols Tip of Queening your Defence. Covers bidding, declarer play, opening leads and responses, exit cards, entries, and defense with strong trumps. Clear, to-the-point analyses of nearly 100 hands, many played by international experts.
"One of the most original and most interesting publications of recent years." --Jan van Cleeff, IMP Bridge Magazine
"A collection of entertaining deals in which queens play a critical role in the bidding, play or defense...The defensive examples are especially striking." --Paul Linxwiler, ACBL Bridge Bulletin
156 pages. Paperback.
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 | The Contested Auction
by Roy Hughes
List Price: $22.95 Price: $18.36 You Save: $4.59 (20%)
Roy Hughes first book, Building a Bidding System, has become a must-read for expert pairs looking to develop effective constructive bidding methods. Here, beginning by establishing what the structure needs to accomplish, Hughes discusses competitive bidding, and recommends useful methods and agreements. The book covers in detail many topics that have seen only cursory treatment in print up to now.
336 pages. Paperback.
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 | The Encyclopedia of Card Play Techniques at Bridge
by Guy Leve
List Price: $34.00 Price: $16.32 You Save: $17.68 (52%)
Unique in the literature of the game, this book describes and classifies hundreds of tactics, stratagems and coups used during the play of the hand at bridge. Each technique is illustrated with an example deal, and its application fully explained. The topics run the gamut from the simplest finesses to the most complex squeeze positions, and cover literally everything in between. This book will be an essential component of any bridge library.
424 pages. Paperback.
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 | The Hog Takes to Precision
by Victor Mollo
List Price: $19.95 Price: $14.76 You Save: $5.19 (26%)
Just about every bridge player in the world has read Victor Mollo's Bridge in the Menagerie, a book that is on any list of the all-time top ten on the game. Towards the end of his life, Mollo continued to write stories about the same well-loved characters (the Hideous Hog, the Rueful Rabbit, Oscar the Owl, and the rest), but some appeared only in the pages of obscure magazines, while others were never published. Now, for the first time, these lost Menagerie gems are available collected in book form. Victor Mollo is everyone's favorite bridge humorist, and a genuinely new book from him will be greeted as something to be treasured.
184 pages. Paperback.
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 | The Lone Wolff
Autobiography of a Bridge Maverick
by Bobby Wolff
List Price: $25.00 Price: $11.50 You Save: $13.50 (54%)
The world champion and former ACBL and WBF President discusses his own career with honesty and emotion, and tackles the big issues that others are afraid to talk about: players cheating at the top levels, destructive bidding systems, sponsorship, and professional players.
287 pages. Paperback.
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 | The New Kings' Tales
by Phillip & Robert King
List Price: $16.00 Price: $7.36 You Save: $8.64 (54%)
Following hot on the heels of The Kings' Tales, Phillip and Robert King again use the parody of popular films, television and writing styles to bring bridge hilariously to life. The New Kings' Tales contains four humorous stories that illustrate the finer points of the game of bridge: a 21st century grandmaster cum time-traveler finds himself battling with Culbertson for transatlantic mastery; Agatha Christie's Poirot uses his bridge expertise to bring down a gang of master criminals; An American widow fights desperately to clear herself at a bridge-inspired murder; and convict Flasher, in a parody of the great BBC comedy Porridge, tries to fix the prison bridge championships. * These tales are suitable for players of all standards. The following review of The Kings' Tales says it all: "The Kings' Tales combines instruction with entertainment in such a clever manner that reading a bridge book takes on a new meaning. No matter what kind of bridge player you are - social or serious - you will enjoy this book."--The American Contract Bridge League Bulletin
144 pages. Paperback.
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 | The NoTrump Zone
by Danny Kleinman
List Price: $20.00 Price: $9.00 You Save: $11.00 (55%)
Notrump openings, and the constructive auctions that follow them, are two of the most neglected areas in bridge literature. Following on from his popular articles in the ACBL Bulletin, Kleinman discusses the principles behind notrump bids and rebids in a variety of situations, emphasizing the ideas and concepts rather than attempting to teach a series of rigid rules.
192 pages. Paperback.
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 | The Pocket Guide To Bridge World Standard
by The Bridge World
List Price: $8.95 Price: $7.92 You Save: $1.03 (11%)
Bridge World Standard is the standard system developed by The Bridge World magazine based on the preferred methods of leading American experts. The system is ideal for use by impromptu or casual partnerships and as a basis for discussion by those who wish to formulate their own system. It is also used as a framework for problems in the magazine's monthly Master Solvers' Club contest. This convenient pocket guide summarizes Bridge World Standard and is an indispensable resource for anyone wishing to utilize or learn the system.
72 pages. Paperback.
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 | The Rodwell Files
The Secrets Of A World Bridge Champion
by Eric Rodwell with Mark Horton
List Price: $27.95 Price: $21.80 You Save: $6.15 (22%)
In this ground-breaking book, Eric Rodwell reveals for the first time his unique approach to the play of the cards. Then he moves on to a host of innovative ideas in card play: strategies and tactics that can be used by declarer or defenders, each one illustrated with real-life examples from top-level play. Rodwell also talks about the mental side of the game: areas where players often go wrong in their approach to a problem, and the key differences between an average player and a successful one.
288 pages. Paperback.
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 | The Useful Space Principle
And Transfer Advances of Overcalls
by Jeff Rubens
List Price: $7.95 Price: $5.96 You Save: $1.99 (25%)
Presents the theory behind Kickback, the Grand-Slam Nonforce, Rubensohl et al, and many other modern devices; plus Master Solvers' Club excerpts on transfer advances of overcalls.
40 pages. Booklet.
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 | World Championships 2011 at Veldhoven
by World Bridge Federation
List Price: $34.95 Price: $29.71 You Save: $5.24 (15%)
The 40th World Bridge Championships 2011 at Veldhoven.
336 pages. Paperback.
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