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 | 10 More Ways To Improve Your Bridge
Master Bridge Series
by David Bird
List Price: $22.95 Price: $18.36 You Save: $4.59 (20%)
Building on the previous 'Ten Ways' title, this book presents ten further ways to increase success at the bridge table. In the area of bidding, the Jacoby 2NT convention is described - the most popular way nowadays of showing a strong major-suit raise and investigating slam possibilities. When bidding slams, it is critical to identify the presence or otherwise of the six key cards (the four aces and the king-queen of trumps). Roman Key-card Blackwood allows you to do this. Two important variations (Kickback Blackwood and Exclusion Blackwood) are explained. The Lebensohl convention is covered also, both when partner's 1NT has been overcalled and when you are responding to a double of a weak-two bid. On defence, the important topic of disrupting declarer's communications is explained. The book will also show how you can become an 'awkward defender', the sort of player that no declarer likes to face. Finally, five important areas of declarer play are addressed: holding up in a suit contract, using the entries provided by the trump suit, how to block the defenders' suit at no-trumps, the various ways to avoid an adverse ruff or overruff and how to overcome a 4-1 trump break.
128 pages. Paperback.
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 | 10 Ways to Improve Your Bridge
by David Bird
List Price: $22.95 Price: $18.36 You Save: $4.59 (20%)
Ten general topics in bidding and play are analyzed in this handy resource for players looking to improve their overall bridge skills. The areas covered range from bidding the opponents' suit and battling for the part-score to support doubles and redoubles, as well as splinter bids and fit jumps. The essential points to remember are summarized at the end of each chapter and problems are included to demonstrate each new skill. This is the ultimate guide to becoming a better allround player.
128 pages. Paperback.
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 | 100 Winning Bridge Tips For The Improving Player
by Ron Klinger
List Price: $19.99 Price: $15.99 You Save: $4.00 (20%)
The new edition of this outstanding book contains some new tips which reflect the changes in the game since its original publication sixteen years ago. Learning from bitter experience at the bridge table is a slow, painful, and often costly business. The 100 winning tips are designed to cover specific and everyday situations in bidding, play, and defence, and they provide a painless substitute for experience.
144 pages. Paperback.
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 | 100 Winning Duplicate Tips For The Improving Tournament Player
by Ron Klinger
List Price: $19.99 Price: $15.99 You Save: $4.00 (20%)
Many players are frustrated by an apparent inability to score well at duplicate pairs. In this revised edition of his popular book, Ron Klinger shows you how to do it. There are five sections covering constructive bidding, competitive bidding, opening leads, declarer play, and defence, and they are full of well-chosen example hands and sound advice.
144 pages. Paperback.
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 | 25 Bridge Myths Exposed
by David Bird
List Price: $17.95 Price: $12.21 You Save: $5.74 (32%)
Do you remember the first few times you played bridge? To get you started, a friend probably gave you a few helpful hints -- perhaps one of the ones listed to the left. There are many such general guidelines for bridge players -- some of them valuable, some not. But these are the Bridge Myths, not the Bridge Rules -- because they all have exceptions and none should be followed blindly. In reading this book you will get to see what it is about each guideline that makes it so useful; more importantly, you will also learn to recognize the times when you should ignore it.
200 pages. Paperback.
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 | 365 Winning Bridge Tips
by Danny Kleinman
List Price: $23.95 Price: $18.20 You Save: $5.75 (24%)
Can you learn from the errors of others? Here is a collection of problems, mostly very simple ones, that gave a variety of players, mostly "intermediate" but including occasional beginners and experts, some trouble. You won't find bidding problems worthy of the Master Solvers' Club (a monthly Bridge World feature), declarer-play problems fit for "Test Your Play" (another Bridge World feature) or problems to challenge defensive maven Eddie Kantar. Instead you will find the kinds of "bread and butter" problems that arise several times a session each time you trudge to your local duplicate bridge club or travel to a sectional or regional tournament. An invaluable collection of advice for the improving player, covering all aspects of the game.
272 pages. Paperback.
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 | 50 More Winning Bridge Tips
by Ron Klinger
List Price: $14.99 Price: $11.99 You Save: $3.00 (20%)
Ron Klinger's 100 Winning Bridge Tips is one of the most widely regarded of his many outstanding bridge books. This exciting selection of tips is aimed at players who wish to improve further, and has all the stimulating and exciting qualities of its celebrated predecessor.
96 pages. Paperback.
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 | Another 52 Great Bridge Tips
by David Bird
List Price: $16.95 Price: $11.19 You Save: $5.76 (34%)
David Bird's bestselling 52 Great Bridge Tips was based on the proven principle that knowledge is easiest to digest when it comes in bite-size morsels. Now he's back with another feast of wisdom for players of all levels. A noted writer of fiction as well as a leading bridge authority, Bird uses his wit and narrative skill along with an encyclopedic knowledge of the game to explain such winning concepts as: "Hold on to the ace of trumps," "Lead a low card on the first round," and "Block the defenders' suit." Each of the tips is illustrated with a cleverly designed hand.
160 pages. Paperback.
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 | Bergen's Best Bridge Quizzes
by Marty Bergen
List Price: $7.95 Price: $6.36 You Save: $1.59 (20%)
This interactive book uses Q&A with thorough, helpful explanations to allow the reader to test himself on bidding, declarer play, defense and opening leads.
80 pages. Paperback.
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 | Bergen's Best Bridge Tips
by Marty Bergen
List Price: $7.95 Price: $6.36 You Save: $1.59 (20%)
Valuable tips including: Discover how to survive a misfit. How to avoid trouble after opening light in 3rd seat. What YOU must know about balancing. When should declarer not count losers in a suit contract? How to overcome an enemy preempt.
72 pages. Paperback.
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 | Bid Better, Play Better
by Dorothy Hayden Truscott
List Price: $13.95 Price: $11.44 You Save: $2.51 (18%)
This classic book on bridge, a best-seller for more than 30 years, has been totally revised by the author. It helps a beginner follow the road to expertise, and allows a traditional bidder to move into the world of modern bidding. Quizzes at the end of most chapters permit readers to test themselves.
176 pages. Paperback.
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 | Bid To Win - Play For Pleasure
by George Rosenkranz and Phillip Alder
List Price: $12.00 Price: $4.80 You Save: $7.20 (60%)
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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 | Card Play Made Easy 2
by Andrew Kambites & Ron Klinger
List Price: $14.99 Price: $11.99 You Save: $3.00 (20%)
This is the second title in a series which is aimed at helping players improve their understanding of suit combinations and develop their card-play technique.
96 pages. Paperback.
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 | Card Play Made Easy 3
by Ron Klinger
List Price: $14.99 Price: $11.99 You Save: $3.00 (20%)
A trump suit contract provides the optimum number of opportunities for success or abject failure. This book shows how to maximize the prospect of success in trump play and become a brilliant declarer. The third book in a series, it explores ways of creating more winners and eliminating losers.
96 pages. Paperback.
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 | Demon Defense and Demon Doubling
Defend With Skill and Double for Keeps
Third Edition
by Augie Boehm
List Price: $14.95 Price: $11.66 You Save: $3.29 (22%)
This book teaches the principles of good defense. When you feel reasonably confident about your ability to defend, you will feel more secure in doubling the opponents. Successful penalty doubles are a sure way to improve your performance. Using the Socratic method, the book links defense to penalty doubles in a sequential progression. This book will have strong appeal to tournament players of intermediate ability.
172 pages. Paperback.
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 | Fall of the Cards
by Donald Parson
List Price: $16.95 Price: $13.56 You Save: $3.39 (20%)
Problems of the type for which the author is infamous are limited in number, for they demand a combination of qualities not often found together. They should be problems rather than puzzles, instructive rather than baffling, presenting situations that arise in everyday play. They should be short and snappy, and answerable by a concise statement, preferably early in the game; for if delayed too long, variations in defense may lead to complications that destroy the problem. Above all, they should offer two schemes of play, one that may be plausible at first sight, and another that a deeper analysis proves to be the correct procedure. And if there is a big swing between the results of good technique and bad technique, so much the better, for there is nothing like punishment to emphasize a lesson for man and beast.
280 pages. Paperback.
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 | Focus on Hocus Pocus
by Erwin Brecher & Danny Roth
List Price: $17.95 Price: $13.28 You Save: $4.67 (26%)
Erwin Brecher's Hocus Pocus series has already successfully combined bridge puzzles with logic and IQ tests, and the present volume, Focus on Hocus Pocus, enables chess enthusiasts to improve their bridge skills and vica versa.
200 pages. Paperback.
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 | Guide to Better Card Play (Acol)
Master Bridge Series
by Ron Klinger
List Price: $29.95 Price: $23.66 You Save: $6.29 (21%)
The most comprehensive elementary-through-intermediate guide available on declarer play and defense, featuring tutorials, summaries, reviews, quizzes, and example deals.
206 pages. Paperback.
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 | Guide To Better Card Play (Std. American)
by Ron Klinger
List Price: $17.95 Price: $14.36 You Save: $3.59 (20%)
Large catalog of techniques for declarer and defender. Stresses bread-and-butter techniques rather than fancy moves. Large number of examples, reviews and quiz questions. Presents the basic principles for improving declarers and defenders, supplemented with a long catalog of examples, practice deals and quizzes.
187 pages. Paperback.
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 | Guide To Better Duplicate Bridge (Acol)
Master Bridge Series
by Ron Klinger
List Price: $23.95 Price: $19.16 You Save: $4.79 (20%)
In the world of tournament bridge, styles change, new ideas come forward, and more effective methods are developed. This new edition contains the standard strategies and conventions that have proven successful in the past, as well as recent developments, how they work, when they apply, and why you can get better scores by adopting them.
184 pages. Paperback.
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 | Guide To Better Duplicate Bridge (Std. American)
by Ron Klinger
List Price: $17.95 Price: $14.36 You Save: $3.59 (20%)
Developing stronger technique and understanding widely used bidding conventions in a matchpoint context. Large amount of review and practice material. Includes some material on play for a change of pace (or to help a teacher in constructing lessons). How to adjust your bidding to meet the demands of matchpoint duplicate; emphasizes basics and partnership agreements.
168 pages. Paperback.
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 | Hocus Pocus
by Erwin Brecher
List Price: $17.95 Price: $13.82 You Save: $4.13 (23%)
A unique collection of bridge problems, math brain-teasers and logic puzzles, from a master in the field. "In the plethora of books on bridge, Erwin Brecher's Hocus Pocus stands out like a breath of fresh air in a crowded pub just before closing time. The unique format combines interesting and far-from-easy bridge problems with challenging and equally difficult logic puzzles." -- Zia Mahmood
202 pages. Paperback.
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 | How Good Is Your Bridge?
by Danny Roth
List Price: $19.00 Price: $14.82 You Save: $4.18 (22%)
Rate your bridge game with this fascinating quiz book on declarer play and defense. The author presents a series of card play problems, and assigns the reader a score based on how close to the optimum solution they get. Readers can expect their scores to improve as they work through the book, inevitably learning as they go.
200 pages. Paperback.
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 | How The Experts Win At Bridge
by Burt & Lynn Rose-Hall
List Price: $16.95 Price: $9.15 You Save: $7.80 (46%)
Represents the best thinking of the experts on every aspect of the game.
264 pages. Paperback.
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 | How To Play Like An Expert (Without Having To Be One)
by Mel Colchamiro
List Price: $21.95 Price: $16.90 You Save: $5.05 (23%)
Expert thinking, simply summarized.
276 pages. Paperback.
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 | Improve Your Bidding and Play
by Ron Klinger & Derek Rimington
List Price: $14.99 Price: $11.99 You Save: $3.00 (20%)
Here is a new edition of this exhilarating and ingenious guide to improving both your bidding and your play. Sixty hands are presented, and you must first find the key bid. Then, as declarer, you have to work out the best way to play the hand. By the time you have completed the sixty problems you will undoubtedly be a much improved player.
128 pages. Paperback.
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 | Improve Your Bridge--Fast
by Alan Sontag and Peter Steinberg
List Price: $4.95 Price: $4.16 You Save: $0.79 (16%)
Two leading experts offer instructive material to aid your performance at the table.
153 pages. Paperback.
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 | Judgment At Bridge
What Went Wrong? Avoid the Common Errors
by Mike Lawrence
List Price: $11.95 Price: $9.56 You Save: $2.39 (20%)
Covers the short club, the takeout double, sign-offs, overbidding, suit preference, and many other neglected areas of the game.
151 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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 | Logical Bridge Play
by Hugh Kelsey
List Price: $24.95 Price: $19.96 You Save: $4.99 (20%)
As Hugh Kelsey says in his introduction, the brilliant card player achieves his results with a combination of logic and flair. And although many people may think flair plays a disproportionate part, the expert player, in fact, produces his sometimes unbelievable results just by the application of logic. This book teaches you just how to apply logic to your card play in making the correct inferences and deductions, and in assessing the timing--the opportunity to become a master player is yours for the taking.
192 pages. Paperback.
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 | Marty Sez: Volume 1
by Marty Bergen
List Price: $17.95 Price: $14.36 You Save: $3.59 (20%)
114 practical, easy-to-remember tips to benefit all players.
160 pages. Hardcover.
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 | Marty Sez: Volume 2
by Marty Bergen
List Price: $17.95 Price: $14.36 You Save: $3.59 (20%)
Includes ALL auctions where you should rebid a 5-card suit.
184 pages. Hardcover.
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 | Marty Sez: Volume 3
by Marty Bergen
List Price: $17.95 Price: $14.36 You Save: $3.59 (20%)
Bigger and better. Includes a better way to respond to two clubs.
192 pages. Hardcover.
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 | More Bedside Bridge
by Elena Jeronimidis
List Price: $11.99 Price: $9.35 You Save: $2.64 (22%)
An entertaining collection of problems from the publishers of Bridge Plus magazine. Contributors include some of the best-known personalities in international bridge.
224 pages. Paperback.
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 | More Hocus Pocus
by Erwin Brecher & Julian Pottage
List Price: $15.95 Price: $12.76 You Save: $3.19 (20%)
Master puzzler Erwin Brecher teams up with top bridge problemist Julian Pottage to present as second collection of bridge problems, math brain-teasers and logic puzzles
210 pages. Paperback.
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 | More Tips For Tops
by George Rosenkranz
List Price: $9.95 Price: $7.96 You Save: $1.99 (20%)
"George Rosenkranz has published several books, but none as well-conceived and effective as his newest one. Few players will read this book without finding something new and useful."--Frank Stewart, ACBL Bulletin
210 pages. Paperback.
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 | My Favorite 52
Larry Cohen's Best Bridge Deals
by Larry Cohen
List Price: $19.95 Price: $15.76 You Save: $4.19 (21%)
Using an intimate 'over-the-shoulder' presentation, the reader is taken through 60-odd deals from the author's own experience, deals that were important to him in some way, technically interesting, or just plain fun. The interactive style allows the reader to follow Larry's bidding and play, and make their own decisions at key points. The material was originally published as interactive software, in which form it won an award from the American Bridge Teachers Association in 2005. Adapted for this edition by Canadian international Linda Lee, it now appears in book format for the first time.
264 pages. Paperback.
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 | Partnership Understandings
by Mike Lawrence
List Price: $5.95 Price: $5.00 You Save: $0.95 (16%)
Stop bidding misunderstandings before they occur with this valuable guide. It overs all the significant points you should discuss with your partner.
56 pages. Booklet.
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 | Play A Swiss Teams Of Four With Mike Lawrence
by Mike Lawrence
List Price: $9.95 Price: $7.96 You Save: $1.99 (20%)
One of the world's great players in eight exciting matches. See how Mike makes winning decisions after you attempt to make the correct bids and plays.
99 pages. Paperback.
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 | Play Bridge With Mike Lawrence
by Mike Lawrence
List Price: $11.95 Price: $9.56 You Save: $2.39 (20%)
A two-session matchpoint event at a regional tournament. How to gather information from the auction, the play of the cards, the atmosphere at the table, when to go against the field. Recommended for: bright beginners through expert.
227 pages. Paperback.
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 | Private Sessions: A Bridge Education
by Augie Boehm
List Price: $21.95 Price: $17.34 You Save: $4.61 (21%)
The best way to enjoy bridge, and win more often, is to learn how to think. This is the essence of Augie Boehm's Private Sessions, now available through HNB Publishing. In its pages, Augie reveals: -How to improve your bridge memory. - The benefits of visualization. -The fine points of hand evaluation. -Passing--how it is the secret weapon. -What a singleton honor is really worth. -The importance of the fourth trump. -The value of timing during the bidding and play, and at the table. -Secrets of successful declarer play.
230 pages. Hardcover.
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 | Reading the Cards
Test Your Bridge Technique Series
by David Bird & Tim Bourke
List Price: $9.95 Price: $7.56 You Save: $2.39 (24%)
Short and full of practical examples, each book takes the reader through the most important aspects of card-play technique at bridge. Where appropriate, play is examined from the point of view both of declarer and defenders. Full of quizzes and chapter reviews, these award-winning books will also reinforce the bridge concepts you learn.
104 pages. Paperback.
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 | Reading the Cards
Bridge Technique Series 10
by David Bird & Marc Smith
List Price: $7.95 Price: $6.36 You Save: $1.59 (20%)
Short and full of practical examples, each book takes the reader through the most important aspects of card-play technique at bridge. Where appropriate, play is examined from the point of view both of declarer and defenders. Full of quizzes and chapter reviews, these award-winning books will also reinforce the bridge concepts you learn.
64 pages. Paperback.
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 | Right Through The Pack Again
Master Bridge Series
by Ron Klinger
List Price: $29.95 Price: $23.66 You Save: $6.29 (21%)
By having each card tell the story of its importance in a particular deal, this book pays homage to the original concept of the 1947 bridge classic Right Through the Pack. The Old Master is in a coma and the cards attempt to bring
him back to consciousness--to revive him with their tales of derring-do, which are both entertaining and instructional for bridge players. Card enthusiasts can test themselves on the problems and then go to the solution later in the book, thus improving their game with this new version of a great classic.
222 pages. Paperback.
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 | Ron Klinger Answers Your Bridge Queries
by Ron Klinger
List Price: $17.95 Price: $14.36 You Save: $3.59 (20%)
Are you having a problem at bridge or a disagreement with your partner? Ron Klinger, one of the leading bridge teachers, replies to bridge questions from players around the world in this stimulating book.
128 pages. Paperback.
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 | Ron Klinger's Master Class
by Ron Klinger
List Price: $15.95 Price: $12.76 You Save: $3.19 (20%)
In his new book, Ron Klinger has brought together and enlarged upon the ten key topics covered in his recent successful Master Class tour. With topics that range from bidding and opening leads to better card play and slams, this is a stimulating book for all players from one of the world's leading bridge instructors.
128 pages. Paperback.
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 | Spot The Bridge Writer's Blunder
by Danny Roth
List Price: $14.95 Price: $11.36 You Save: $3.59 (24%)
Danny Roth is a well known bridge teacher who has written several best-selling bridge books. In this intriguing book he present s collection of bridge problems with a novel twist. Each of them was originally mis-analyzed by a famous bridge writer, either in a column or a book. As a reader, you are first invited to solve the problem in the normal way. You then turn the page and the "answer" that was provided by the original reporter of the deal. This is followed by a section 'What was wrong with that?' where the point that was missed by the original writer is described. The deals are challenging, instructive and entertaining. Will you be able to 'Spot the Bridge Writer's Blunder?'
160 pages. Paperback.
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 | Take All Your Chances At Bridge
by Eddie Kantar
List Price: $18.95 Price: $14.78 You Save: $4.17 (22%)
Selecting the best line of play as declarer on a bridge hand is not easy. Most novices know something about basic odds and percentages, and can usually come up with a line that offers a reasonable chance of success. However, the expert player will skilfully combine options, so as to take advantage of more than one possibility. Rather than putting all his eggs in one basket, he will 'stay alive', squeezing out every extra chance. In this book of intermediate problems, Kantar shows the reader how to do this--there is always a line of play that will allow you take all your chances, and bring home your contract.
160 pages. Paperback.
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 | Take Your Tricks
Second Edition
by Eddie Kantar
List Price: $16.95 Price: $13.56 You Save: $3.39 (20%)
Valuable warm-up tips along with card combinations and safety plays.
173 pages. Paperback.
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 | The Best of Bridge Today Digest
by Matthew & Pamela Granovetter
List Price: $14.95 Price: $10.17 You Save: $4.78 (32%)
Bridge Today Digest recently celebrated its first anniversary (and 100th issue) as an Internet-based "bridge-zine". It is renowned for its practical advice, its wonderful bridge stories, and the wry humor and personal touch of its editors. For this collection, they have selected the very best pieces from their first year, and have come up with a compendium that every bridge player can read, enjoy, and learn from. It includes short pieces from world-renowned writers, questions and comments from readers (and the editors' responses to them!), and a wealth of deals, anecdotes and advice from the editors. A great holiday gift.
192 pages. Paperback.
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 | The Complete Book Of Duplicate Bridge
by Norman Kay and Sidney Silodor
List Price: $16.95 Price: $13.22 You Save: $3.73 (22%)
This 1993 revised and updated edition covers important topics such as mechanics, scoring, strategy, preempts, weak twos, overcalls, doubles, and defense in more than 500 pages. This highly-recommended book deals in detail with all of the special tactics needed in duplicate bridge.
496 pages. Paperback.
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 | The Golden Rules for Rubber Bridge Players
by Julian Pottage
List Price: $20.00 Price: $16.00 You Save: $4.00 (20%)
Rubber bridge is the world's most widely played social game. This book shows, in a series of clearly expressed rules, how bidding and play in rubber bridge differs from duplicate bridge. Whether you want to win more often or simply enjoy your playing more, this is the book for you.
144 pages. Paperback.
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 | The Mistakes You Make At Bridge
by Terence Reese & Roger Trezel
List Price: $19.95 Price: $15.96 You Save: $3.99 (20%)
Aimed at the majority of bridge players, and one of the classic books on the subject, The Mistakes You Make at Bridge will deepen your understanding of the game and help you learn where not to follow conventions slavishly in bidding, defense, and dummy play.
160 pages. Paperback.
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 | The New Complete Book of Bridge
by Albert Dormer & Ron Klinger
List Price: $29.99 Price: $23.39 You Save: $6.60 (22%)
No other bridge book covers bidding and play in such comprehensive detail. Written by two of the leading names in bridge, this is a must for anyone with aspirations to become a good player.
448 pages. Paperback.
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 | The Play Of The Hand At Bridge
by Louis H. Watson
List Price: $16.00 Price: $12.80 You Save: $3.20 (20%)
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.
496 pages. Paperback.
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 | The Real Deal: Intermediate Level (CD)
by Larry Cohen
List Price: $19.95 Price: $15.56 You Save: $4.39 (22%)
Sixty interactive deals with Larry's comments and feedback, in an "over-my-shoulder" presentation. Based on five years of ACBL Real Deal columns. PC Format. This program contains 60 deals from Larry's real-life experience. On each deal, you will look at your 13 cards, see the auction develop (with your input), and then you will either defend or declare. As each trick is played, you will see the new diagram before your eyes (something not possible in a book). Basically, this is as close as you can come to playing the deals in real life, with an expert talking to you to help with the reasoning.
These are intermediate-level deals geared toward a wide range of players. Some problems will be harder than others.
This software has state of the art graphics and has been designed to make your learning experience as easy and enjoyable as possible. Everything on the screen is "over-sized" to help those with vision problems. The user can customize the screen colors and various aspects of how bridge hands are displayed. There is extensive online help.
Larry Cohen is one of the most successful pairs players of this century. He is also one of the finest bridge teachers today. He has an easy going friendly manner and he is not afraid to show his mistakes and bad results.
Fred Gitelman, the program's developer, is a World Champion and has won several North American Championship events. Fred is considered one of the top bridge programmers in the world. Thousands of bridge players from all over the world have found Fred's bridge software products to provide countless hours of effective and enjoyable learning.
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 | The Times Book Of Bridge 2
by Robert Sheehan
List Price: $11.95 Price: $8.60 You Save: $3.35 (28%)
The daily bridge column in The Times has justifiably achieved a world-wide reputation for interesting hands and accuracy of analysis. It also provides an overview of modern competitive bridge with the top players and top tournaments featuring regularly. In this bedside book, the author has selected the most interesting hands of the last few years and arranged the material by theme to provide an instructive and enjoyable read. * Here you will find the great Americans, Hamman and Wolff, Meckstroth and Rodwell and the incomparable Zia. Fascinating deals feature the top British players including Forrester and Robson, and the leading Europeans such as Gawrys, Helgemo and Chelma. * This is a follow-up title to the author's Times Book of Bridge 1 and includes completely new material with the emphasis on the last couple of years. Robert's first book was well-received by the bridge press, even those far afield.
112 pages. Paperback.
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 | The Times Bridge
Common Mistakes And How To Avoid Them
by Andrew Robson
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A bridge guide aimed at the less experienced or social player who longs to improve but keeps repeating the same mistakes, often not knowing that they are mistakes.
205 pages. Hardcover.
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 | The Times: Bridge Secrets
The Expert's Guide to Improving Your Game
by Andrew Robson
List Price: $19.95 Price: $15.96 You Save: $3.99 (20%)
World famous bridge player Andrew Robson has selected a fascinating assortment of more than 150 sample deals covering a wide range of themes in order to clarify various aspects of the game. Topics addressed include when to double, how to use all of your assets, how to learn from your mistakes and those of others, and when to break normal guidelines. Presented in clear, logical, and entertaining language this is the perfect guide for those stepping up to an intermediate level of play, as well as for club and tournament players.
224 pages. Paperback.
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 | The Tricky Game
by Hugh Kelsey
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Beginning with the play of an individual suit and continuing with full deals, deceptive plays are discussed in a variety of situations. An excellent collection of hands to help keep the opponents off guard.
198 pages. Paperback.
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 | The Wei To Good Bridge
by Kathie Wei-Sender & Martin Hoffman
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Laugh your way to winning more as the five fictional characters are confronted with a series of challenging and entertaining problems. You are invited to solve them with Mr. Know-all, Doting Dottie, Big Al, Huricane Helen and Precision Pete.
143 pages. Paperback.
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 | There Must Be A Way
52 Bridge Hands to Challenge your Play and Defense
by Andrew Diosy
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Most bridge players pride themselves on their ability at post-mortem analysis -- figuring out what should happen on a given hand with best play and perfect defense. But sometimes it's not so easy. Andrew Diosy has collected 52 bridge hands, graded into increasing levels of difficulty, where the obvious answer is usually wrong. As you look further into each hand, you find that there are more layers of complexity, as each move by declarer or the defense has its counter-move. Which side will come out on top? Many of these hands will leave insomniac readers staring at the ceiling, desperately echoing the book's title: 'There must be a way...'.
96 pages. Paperback.
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 | Things Your Bridge Teacher Won't Tell You
by Dan Romm
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Most bridge books ignore the fact that bridge is a game between opponents, simply teaching players how to strive for theoretical perfection in bidding and play. Dan Romm isn't interested in that - he's interested in winning, which is something he has done for more than forty years against the best players around. Romm also isn't very interested in tournaments - mostly he plays for money; he plays with and against world champions, and is a consistent winner. He treats bridge as a four-person competition, not as a one or two-person mathematical exercise. Psychology, deception, and misdirection are among a host of (legal!) tactics that the reader can learn to use himself, on the way to winning more often.
158 pages. Paperback.
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 | Thinking About Imps
by John Boeder
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John Boeder is an experienced player and writer from Minnesota. As a player he has won 14 regional events and dozens of sectionals. He has written for bridge publications in Minnesota and Ohio as well as Bridge World Magazine. * John has a special knack for organizing and presenting complex material in an informal and readable style. He has written extensively on computer networks and human rights as well as on bridge. His writing is lively and light hearted, even when the subject matter is complicated. This book exudes love for the game of IMP's in addition to technical understanding. * "This is a remarkably well-written book destined, in my opinion, to put the author on the bridge map. * "Personally, I found the book hard to put down. It has everything: his historical perspective, a player's feel for the game, and a sense of 'having been there.' John Boeder is one helluva writer."--Eddie Kantar
269 pages. Paperback.
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 | Three Notrump in Depth
by Augie Boehm
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Part I of this book will equip you with a variety of useful, easy-to-master bidding tools to help you and partner discover when to grab the 3NT brass ring, and, just as important, when to avoid it. Reaching good 3NT contracts doesn't confer an automatic bonus-there is that niggling rule about needing to make what you bid. So, Part II is dedicated to the play of 3NT. Since you are apt to defend 3NT twice as often as you declare (50% versus 25%), defensive counters are given full weight.
176 pages. Paperback.
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 | Tips For Better Bridge
by Bernard Magee
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Bite-sized nuggets of information are easier to absorb and apply than complex rules. That's the brilliantly simple idea behind this collection of short, straightforward bridge tips, addressing equally the areas of play, defense, and bidding. Bernard Magee, the UK's best-known bridge teacher, uses this time-tested approach to get across many of the concepts that beginning players find most daunting, and to offer more experienced players a way to improve their play quickly. The comprehensive coverage includes both the five-card and acol bidding systems and will appeal both to social players and serious competitors.
160 pages. Paperback.
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 | To Win At Bridge
Have You Got What It Takes?
Master Bridge Series
by Ron Klinger
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The world of bridge has winners and also-rans. What would you rather be? Winning might not be everything, but it is much better than finishing second or third, and way ahead of being out of place. This book examines the attributes and skills you need to be on the winner's dais more often--not only the personal qualities and psychological requirements, but also the methods you are using and the standard of card play required. This overview is a challenge full of tips and telling advice, which, if followed, will produce a positive lift to your game.
128 pages. Paperback.
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 | Winners And Losers At The Bridge Table
by Bobby Goldman
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Fifty bridge aphorisms, each accompanied by an appropriate Mary Grace cartoon. Learn the best way to act like a champion.
108 pages. Paperback.
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 | World Of Bridge
by Frank Stewart
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Hard-edged observations from the syndicated columnist; over-the-shoulder stories, and insight into expert views on bidding and play.
268 pages. Paperback.
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 | You Have to See This
by Andrew Diosy & Linda Lee
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A brilliant sequel to There Must Be A Way, this book presents fifty-two more problems in post-mortem analysis. The two-step solution approach has been retained, and the hands are no less fun. Again, the reader is challenged to decide whether each hand can be made with best play and defence. For variety, in this book some hands are presented in single dummy format as well.
96 pages. Paperback.
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