BOOKS ON SYSTEMS AND CONVENTIONS
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 | 1NT Forcing
Number 3
Secrets to Winning Bridge Series
by Marty Bergen
List Price: $9.95 Price: $6.96 You Save: $2.99 (30%)
The great popularity of 2/1 Game Forcing means that more and more players are also playing 1NT forcing. Even if you don't use it, many of your opponents surely will.
24 pages. Booklet.
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 | 2/1 Game Forcing
Number 2
Secrets to Winning Bridge Series
by Marty Bergen
List Price: $9.95 Price: $6.96 You Save: $2.99 (30%)
The most popular system in the world today. * The key to good bidding is to exchange information until your side can decide the correct level and trump suit (or notrump). It's best to do so while remaining at a low level - and that's what 2/1 Game Forcing is all about.
24 pages. Booklet.
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 | 2/1 in a Nutshell
by Dee Berry
List Price: $10.00 Price: $8.00 You Save: $2.00 (20%)
Designed for quick and easy access to the most popular bridge system of the 21st century, 2/1 In A Nutshell offers easy guidelines to key parts of the system, including brief summaries of conventions necessary to 2/1 and modern bridge. All possible sequences and conventions are not included but the careful reader will learn to open the bidding, respond, and rebid effectively. Special cases are spotlighted. * It is assumed that the reader has a basic knowledge of bridge, including Stayman. More experienced players will find many new ways to expand their horizons.
70 pages. Booklet.
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 | 25 Steps to Learning 2/1
by Paul Thurston
List Price: $18.95 Price: $14.78 You Save: $4.17 (22%)
Over the last fifteen or so years, the 2/1 Game Forcing bidding method has gained substantial popularity. This book is designed for players who are familiar with Standard bidding and are interested in switching to the 2/1 method. It covers basic concepts as well as the differences between 2/1 and Standard auctions, and includes a discussion of more advanced ideas and conventions that fit particularly well with 2/1 methods.
192 pages. Paperback.
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 | Acol Bridge Flipper
by Ron Klinger
List Price: $8.99 Price: $7.19 You Save: $1.80 (20%)
This unique fast fact finder enables players to rapidly check important points in bidding and play. Acol Bridge Flipper is aimed at the vast number of people who already play and who want to improve.
32 pages. Booklet.
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 | Advanced Bridge Bidding for the 21st Century
by Max Hardy
List Price: $19.95 Price: $15.56 You Save: $4.39 (22%)
Max Hardy follows his first volume, Standard Bridge Bidding for the 21st Century, with his comprehensive second volume, including contributions by expert players Grant Baze, Marty Bergen, Fred Hamilton, Jeff Meckstroth, Mike Passell, and Eddie Wold.
"Max takes players to the next level, bringing them up to date with the system of choice of the top players in the world. He presents the concepts with clarity and style worthy of the author and teacher that he is."
- John Swanson
336 pages. Paperback.
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 | Bergen Raises
Number 6
Secrets to Winning Bridge Series
by Marty Bergen
List Price: $9.95 Price: $6.96 You Save: $2.99 (30%)
Marty strips away the mysths and tells it like it is. A must read for every player who wants to know more about Bergen Raises.
24 pages. Booklet.
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 | Better Balanced Bidding
The Banzai Method Master Bridge
by David Jackson & Ron Klinger
List Price: $23.95 Price: $19.16 You Save: $4.79 (20%)
Are you often surprised that you have stopped in 1NT or 2NT and game is easy? Are you regularly disappointed to be in 3NT or 6NT and find that the contract is very poor even though you seem to have enough points? * If so, this book provides the reasons why your results are not always as good as you want. The main cause is that for balanced hands the point count with which you are familiar is not nearly as accurate as it should be. In addition, perhaps you fail to take into account the value of Tens and 5-card suits within a balanced hand. * The authors provide an easy to use hand valuation, which is bound to improve your results for nbalanced hands. Through many examples from international tournaments you will see how even the top players flounder on these hands. By the end of the book, if you adopt the methods recommended, you will be able to bid balanced hands much better than you do at the present.
144 pages. Paperback.
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 | Better Bidding The Bergen Way - Understanding 1NT Forcing
by Marty Bergen
List Price: $5.95 Price: $4.88 You Save: $1.07 (18%)
Acquire the judgement needed to make the right rebids, raises and responses.
48 pages. Paperback.
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 | Bid Better, Much Better After Opening 1 No-Trump A New Approach
(Acol Edition)
by Ron Klinger
List Price: $17.95 Price: $14.00 You Save: $3.95 (22%)
This approach to no-trump bidding will enable both rubber bridge and duplicate players to bid more accurately and thereby achieve sensationally better results.
128 pages. Paperback.
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 | Conventions At A Glance
by Pamela & Matthew Granovetter
List Price: $10.00 Price: $5.80 You Save: $4.20 (42%)
The most popular duplicate conventions and treatmkents and how to defend against them!
112 pages. Booklet.
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 | Conventions Today
by Brian Senior
List Price: $11.95 Price: $9.56 You Save: $2.39 (20%)
Whatever your preferred system of bidding, you and your partner will inevitably decide to play a number of conventions. This book briefly explains the best and most popular conventions in every area of the auction, including a number of ideas that will be new to North American readers. It will be a useful reference summary for players at any level.
128 pages. Paperback.
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 | DONT (Disturbing Opponents' No Trump)
by Mike Lawrence
List Price: $6.00 Price: $5.16 You Save: $0.84 (14%)
Convention for competing against opening 1NT bid
45 pages. Booklet.
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 | Enhanced Precision
Second Edition
by Ron Beall
List Price: $9.95 Price: $7.76 You Save: $2.19 (22%)
Enhanced Precision is a bidding system for the determined tournament player, designed to arrive at the best possible contract. It is an evolved system with many enhancements compared to standard systems, even standard precisions.
44 pages. Booklet.
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 | Five Card Major Bidding In Contract Bridge
by Harold Feldheim
List Price: $12.95 Price: $10.88 You Save: $2.07 (16%)
A clearly written discussion of the five card major approach that is now considered Standard American by most duplicate players. Covers two-over-one game force auctions, forcing notrump structure, limit raises and negative doubles. Includes many quizzes.
181 pages. Paperback.
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 | Five-Card Majors Bidding Flipper
by Ron Klinger
List Price: $8.99 Price: $7.19 You Save: $1.80 (20%)
This "Fast Fact Finder" is designed for reference and for quick checks at the bridge table. Five-Card Majors is a particularly accurate system of bidding which leads to a greater understanding between partners--this is why it is used by so many top players at the highest competitive levels.
32 pages. Booklet.
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 | Five-Card-Major Stayman (Standard American)
by Ron Klinger
List Price: $16.95 Price: $13.56 You Save: $3.39 (20%)
More and more, strong-notrump users eliminate the age-old taboo against holding a five-card major for a one-notrump opening. Opening one notrump can avoid a difficult rebid problem or preempt an opponent out of a one-spade overcall. However, the opening side then faces the challenging problem of how to locate five-three (as well as four-four) major-suit fits. Here is a comprehensive approach to handling this problem as part of a complete structure. Comprehensive approach to a notrump structure geared to opener's possible possession of a five-card major.
96 pages. Paperback.
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 | Five-Card-Major Stayman (weak notrump) (Acol)
by Ron Klinger
List Price: $19.95 Price: $16.16 You Save: $3.79 (19%)
More and more, strong-notrump users eliminate the age-old taboo against holding a five-card major for a one-notrump opening. Opening one notrump can avoid a difficult rebid problem or preempt an opponent out of a one-spade overcall. However, the opening side then faces the challenging problem of how to locate five-three (as well as four-four) major-suit fits. Here is a comprehensive approach to handling this problem as part of a complete structure. Comprehensive approach to a notrump structure geared to opener's possible possession of a five-card major. Acol-oriented.
96 pages. Paperback.
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 | Go for the Gold!
by Burt Saxon
List Price: $5.95 Price: $4.16 You Save: $1.79 (30%)
An invaluable tool for learning to play the same accurate, dynamic bidding system that has served North American and World Champions for decades. An ideal book for the partnership just starting out with Precision - or for the experienced Precision pair who want to add a few wrinkles - or a lot - to their system. An easy-to-read book with quizzes after every chapter.
58 pages. Paperback.
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 | Godfrey's Bridge Challenge
by George Rosenkranz & Phillip Alder
List Price: $10.00 Price: $6.20 You Save: $3.80 (38%)
Brings the Romex system to life through lively anecdotes instruction and quizzes. This book will improve your judgment and effectiveness, especially your slam bidding.
160 pages. Paperback.
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 | Godfrey's Stairway to the Stars
A step-by-step guide to modern bidding
by George Rosenkranz & Phillip Alder
List Price: $10.00 Price: $5.60 You Save: $4.40 (44%)
"I love Precision Club, but having read this book, I think I'm going to be modifying a few bits of my system. All strong-club bidders will find something useful here."--Lynn Deas * "I have always enjoyed discussing bridge with George Rosenkranz. But recently the conversations have been especially interesting because they have been about strong-club methods, which are close to my heart. If you like strong-club, you will get a lot from this book."--Larry Cohen
130 pages. Paperback.
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 | Guide To Better Acol Bridge
by Ron Klinger
List Price: $23.95 Price: $19.16 You Save: $4.79 (20%)
This new edition retains the basic structure while introducing new concepts. While the emphasis is on better bidding, each chapter contains examples of play. These incorporate the bidding principles of the chapter and also highlight many areas of winning declarer technique and defense. The book can be used by teachers conducting intermediate courses or as a self-teacher. Each chapter contains plentiful exercises and partnership bidding practice. At the end of each section, a revision test enables the reader to measure the rate of progress.
184 pages. Paperback.
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 | Guide To Better Bridge (Std. American)
by Ron Klinger
List Price: $17.95 Price: $14.36 You Save: $3.59 (20%)
Pointers to better bidding technique in both partnership and competitive bidding. Emphasizes improvement through solid fundamentals and provides a huge array of practice examples and quizzes. Includes some material on play for a change of pace (or to help a teacher in constructing lessons). Emphasizes fundamentals over fanciness for players hoping to move toward the expert level.
184 pages. Paperback.
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 | Helms to HELLO
by Jerry Helms
List Price: $9.95 Price: $7.56 You Save: $2.39 (24%)
The answer to your prayers - a simple, effective convention for competing over the opponents' 1NT opening bid! Originally self-published in 1996, the first edition sold out quickly, so that this much sought-after treatise has been unavailable for several years. The book describes how the convention works, and how to use it against various ranges of 1NT opening bids, as well as over strong 1 Club openings.
48 pages. Booklet.
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 | How I Became A Life Master Playing The Weak No Trump
by Eric Luft
List Price: $16.95 Price: $13.22 You Save: $3.73 (22%)
Advantages of this Aggressive Weak No Trump bidding system include: A greater proportion of limit bids and a higher frequency of bids in general, improving communication between partners. More accurate low-level descriptive bids, making it easier during the auction to envision the probable play of the hand and to find your best contract. Increased use of preempts, making it more difficult for the opponents to find their best possible result in a competitive auction.
210 pages. Paperback.
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 | Jacoby 2NT
Practice Your Bidding Series
by Barbara Seagram & Linda Lee
List Price: $6.95 Price: $5.56 You Save: $1.39 (20%)
With these handy little books, you can: Learn a new convention, or extend your knowledge of it; Learn and practice by yourself using the unique quiz format; Practice with your partner using the specially selected sample hands, and compare your results with the recommended auctions.
68 pages. Paperback.
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 | Jacoby Transfers
Practice Your Bidding Series
by Barbara Seagram & Andy Stark
List Price: $7.95 Price: $6.36 You Save: $1.59 (20%)
With these handy little books, you can: Learn a new convention, or extend your knowledge of it; Learn and practice by yourself using the unique quiz format; Practice with your partner using the specially selected sample hands, and compare your results with the recommended auctions.
68 pages. Paperback.
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 | Martens System
by Krzysztof Martens
List Price: $20.00 Price: $17.20 You Save: $2.80 (14%)
The author's system, distinguished by mechanisms that allow one partner to control the bidding when it seems appropriate.
232 pages. Paperback.
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 | My System: The Unbalanced Diamond
by Marshall Miles
List Price: $18.95 Price: $12.89 You Save: $6.06 (32%)
Marshall Miles has been writing bridge books for more than fifty years, and during that time has remained one of the world's leading thinkers on the theory of bidding. His recent gold medal in the World Senior Teams shows that he has lost little of his edge with time. This book, a distillation of the ideas he has been developing and evolving over many years, describes what in his view is an optimal bidding system: the one he prefers to play, and the one that has brought him great success over the last several years. Serious players will want to study Miles' ideas, and adopt, if not the whole system, many of its concepts into their own bidding.
160 pages. Paperback.
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 | Pocket Guide to 2/1
by Paul Thurston
List Price: $7.95 Price: $6.36 You Save: $1.59 (20%)
Using the same format as The Pocket Guide to Bridge, this book will provide a handy pocket summary of the popular 2/1 bidding system. In a concise but readable manner, it goes over the basic ideas for Standard players who want to make the switch. The contents are based on Thurston's 25 Steps to Learning 2/1, which was the American Bridge Teachers Association Book of the Year in 2003.
64 pages. Booklet.
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 | Pocket Guide to Acol Bridge
by Mark Horton & Barbara Seagram
List Price: $10.00 Price: $7.40 You Save: $2.60 (26%)
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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 | Pocket Guide To SAYC
by Ned Downey & Ellen Pomer
List Price: $9.95 Price: $7.86 You Save: $2.09 (21%)
The most popular natural bidding system for thousands of player's worldwide is the "Standard American Yellow Card" or SAYC. This book is a hand reference for anyone learning SAYC, ort for those who have grasped the basics of the system and are eager to fill the gaps in their knowledge.
64 pages.
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 | Precision Today
Second Edition
by David Berkowitz & Brent Manley
List Price: $19.95 Price: $15.36 You Save: $4.59 (23%)
An invaluable tool for learning to play this accurate, dynamic bidding system.
188 pages. Paperback.
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 | Roman Keycard Blackwood
The Final Word
Fifth Edition.
by Eddie Kantar
List Price: $22.95 Price: $18.36 You Save: $4.59 (20%)
Definitive book on a convention that every serious player uses; completely revised and updated.
244 pages. Paperback.
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 | Standard Bidding with SAYC
by Ned Downey & Ellen Pomer (Caitlin)
List Price: $18.95 Price: $14.78 You Save: $4.17 (22%)
What is Standard Bidding? This is an increasingly hard question to answer, but the proliferation of bridge on the Internet in pickup partnerships makes it imperative that someone does so. Perhaps the most popular natural system for the hundreds of thousands of online players worldwide is the Standard American Yellow Card, or SAYC. In this book, for the first time, SAYC is fully described and explained. This will be an invaluable to aid to anyone wanting to learn and understand SAYC, or anyone who simply knows the basics and is eager to fill in the missing pieces in their repertoire.
192 pages. Paperback.
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 | Standard Bridge Bidding for the 21st Century
by Max Hardy
List Price: $19.95 Price: $15.56 You Save: $4.39 (22%)
Shows why even social players can expect consistently winning auctions from a five card major, forcing notrump, two-over-one forcing to game bidding system.
"...an easy recommendation for all but experts as the new 2/1 reference manual."
American Contract Bridge League Magazine, February 2001
Max Hardy is one of the most versatile professionals in the world of bridge. Recently retired after forty years as a tournament director, he also found the time to win more than 10,000 master points. In constant demand as a lecturer, he also has had more than 100 students take his intensive forty hour bridge course.
The author of more than ten books on bidding, Max is best known for promoting a five card major, forcing notrump, two-over-one forcing to game bidding system. Here he shows why even social players can expect consistently winning auctions from such an approach.
278 pages. Paperback.
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 | Sweep Q-Bids
And Other Treatments
by Ted Brashler
List Price: $10.00 Price: $7.50 You Save: $2.50 (25%)
"At last! An intelligent approach to inverted minors.*"We recommend Ted Brashler's book for the serious partnership. The book goes a long way toward solving the numerous defects of Standard American, and he does an admirable job in narrowing the focus of hand strength and distribution. * "We are particularly intrigued with the Sweep Q-Bids, a step in the right direction for this most difficult art. * "The methods can be adopted as an entire system, or can be taken selectively."--Jeff Meckstroth & Eric Rodwell * "This book is well written which makes for easy reading. Tournament players will surly find many viable ideas, several of which I intend to incorporate into my own bidding structure."--Kit Woolsey
290 pages. Paperback.
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 | The Flannery Two Diamond Opening
by Bill Flannery
List Price: $7.95 Price: $6.36 You Save: $1.59 (20%)
A complete book of The Flannery Convention, one of the most popular conventions in use today. It includes sections on the mechanics of Flannery, defense strategies against the convention, and 65 hands showing Flannery in action.
190 pages. Paperback.
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 | The Lebensohl Convention Complete
by Ron Andersen
List Price: $8.95 Price: $7.16 You Save: $1.79 (20%)
A full explanation of how to compete when the opponents overcall your partner's notrump opening bid, plus the use of Lebensohl after the opponents' weak two-bids and opener's reverse bids.
107 pages. Paperback.
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 | The Mysterious Multi
How To Play It, How To Play Against It
by Mark Horton & Jan van Cleeff
List Price: $22.95 Price: $18.36 You Save: $4.59 (20%)
The Multi Two Diamonds is a popular convention among tournament players, yet this is the first comprehensive modern book on how it fits into commonly played bidding structures. Various alternative uses for the opening major-suit two-bids, including the popular Muiderberg Twos, are discussed in depth, as well as the popular Multi Landy (Woolsey) defense against 1NT. A substantial amount of space is devoted to defenses against Multi, making this a valuable book even for those who don't wish to play the convention themselves.
208 pages. Paperback.
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 | The Power System
(Std. American Edition)
by Ron Klinger
List Price: $16.95 Price: $13.39 You Save: $3.56 (21%)
When your bids are well-defined, you can afford to enter the auction on a somewhat wider range of hands. The Power system requires a dedicated partnership willing to work hard to get better results; it offers gains through more aggressive auction-entry with safety. Scientific partnerships that use carefully-worked-out methods have the edge in top-level play. This book does much of the dirty work for a pair looking to improve through superior bidding technique.
384 pages. Paperback.
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 | The World Of Transfers
by Krzysztof Martens
List Price: $20.00 Price: $17.20 You Save: $2.80 (14%)
Using transfers to overcome traditional problems in contested auctions.
241 pages. Paperback.
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 | Tournament Acol
by David Bird & Tim Bourke
List Price: $19.99 Price: $15.99 You Save: $4.00 (20%)
This account of how top tournament players employ the Acol system provides a summary of up-to-date methods of bidding and play in competitive duplicate bridge. The book should also appeal to keen rubber bridge players.
160 pages. Paperback.
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 | Two Over One Game Force
by Audrey Grant and Eric Rodwell
List Price: $19.95 Price: $15.36 You Save: $4.59 (23%)
Covers the basics of this popular variation of Standard American bidding methods.
238 pages. Paperback.
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 | Two-Over-One Game Force
by Max Hardy
List Price: $16.95 Price: $13.56 You Save: $3.39 (20%)
THE MOST POPULAR BIDDING STYLE TODAY. New edition: revised, updated, expanded. The system played by many consistent winners. A thorough explanation of opening bids and responses, plus competitive bidding and useful gadgets. Recommended for: Intermediate through expert.
314 pages. Paperback.
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 | Two-Over-One Game Force Quiz Book
by Max Hardy
List Price: $11.95 Price: $9.56 You Save: $2.39 (20%)
The latest on the most popular bidding style.
400 quiz questions encompassing every aspect of the 2 over 1 system.
Each question and detailed answer gives the appropriate reference in "2 over 1 Game Force" for further study and discussion.
180 pages. Paperback.
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 | Two-Over-One Game Force: An Introduction
by Steve Bruno and Max Hardy
List Price: $11.95 Price: $9.56 You Save: $2.39 (20%)
The first 2-over-1 book ever written for less experienced players. Your easy-to-understand guide to The System plus Tools and Gadgets. Recommended for: Beginners to intermediate players.
141 pages. Paperback.
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 | Understanding Acol
The Good Bidding Guide
by Eric Crowhurst & Andrew Kambites
List Price: $17.99 Price: $14.21 You Save: $3.78 (21%)
Enlarged and revised for this new edition, this guide includes information on takeout doubles, deals with the "Law of Total Tricks," and provides a new structure for no-trump rebids. It is designed to help all Acol players and their partners improve their bidding skills.
176 pages. Paperback.
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 | Viking Precision Club
A Relay System for the 21st Century
by Glenn Groetheim & Alan Sontag
List Price: $16.95 Price: $13.56 You Save: $3.39 (20%)
Many types of relay systems have been invented, and played with some success, over the last 30 years, even if they have not been well written up. Many of the relay systems have been built by using Precision Club as a base. Precision Club was also the base in the relay system which Tor Helness/Leif Erik Stabell used with great success in Norway, as well as internationally, in the early eighties.
256 pages. Paperback.
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 | WJ05: A Modern Version of Polish Club
by Krzysztof Jassem
List Price: $18.95 Price: $15.16 You Save: $3.79 (20%)
There are two main approaches to bidding: 1) oriented to distribution, which gives priority to showing suits over showing strenth; an example may be ACOL or SAYC. 2) oriented to strength, which prefer to estimate the total strength as soon as possible: an example may be Precision. Polish Club takes the best of both; you very soon find your fit and can estimate the total strength at the same time.
136 pages. Paperback.
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 | Workbook On The Two Over One System
by Mike Lawrence
List Price: $12.95 Price: $10.88 You Save: $2.07 (16%)
The current system of choice for most experienced players today.
189 pages. Paperback.
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