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	1NT Forcing Number 3 Secrets to Winning Bridge Series by Marty Bergen	Item #1698 Price $ 9.95
	2/1 Game Forcing Number 2 Secrets to Winning Bridge Series by Marty Bergen	Item #1697 Price $ 9.95
	2/1 in a Nutshell by Dee Berry	Item #1692 Price $ 10.00
	25 Steps to Learning 2/1 by Paul Thurston 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.	Item #1109 Price $ 18.95
	Acol Bridge Flipper by Ron Klinger 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.	Item #1328 Price $ 8.99
	Advanced Bridge Bidding for the 21st Century by Max Hardy 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	Item #1092 Price $ 19.95
	Bergen Raises Number 6 Secrets to Winning Bridge Series by Marty Bergen	Item #1701 Price $ 9.95
	Better Balanced Bidding The Banzai Method Master Bridge by David Jackson & Ron Klinger	Item #1744 Price $ 23.95
	Better Bidding The Bergen Way - Understanding 1NT Forcing by Marty Bergen Acquire the judgement needed to make the right rebids, raises and responses.	Item #1425 Price $ 5.95
	Bid Better, Much Better After Opening 1 No-Trump A New Approach (Acol Edition) by Ron Klinger This approach to no-trump bidding will enable both rubber bridge and duplicate players to bid more accurately and thereby achieve sensationally better results.	Item #1347 Price $ 17.95
	Conventions At A Glance by Pamela & Matthew Granovetter	Item #1732 Price $ 9.95
	Conventions Today by Brian Senior 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.	Item #1141 Price $ 11.95
	DONT (Disturbing Opponents' No Trump) by Mike Lawrence Convention for competing against opening 1NT bid	Item #1615 Price $ 6.00
	Enhanced Precision Second Edition by Ron Beall 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.	Item #1562 Price $ 9.95
	Five Card Major Bidding In Contract Bridge by Harold Feldheim 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.	Item #1039 Price $ 12.95
	Five-Card Majors Bidding Flipper by Ron Klinger 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.	Item #1357 Price $ 8.99
	Five-Card-Major Stayman (Standard American) by Ron Klinger 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.	Item #1275 Price $ 16.95
	Five-Card-Major Stayman (weak notrump) (Acol) by Ron Klinger 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.	Item #1274 Price $ 19.95
	Go for the Gold! by Burt Saxon 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.	Item #1604 Price $ 5.95
	Godfrey's Bridge Challenge by George Rosenkranz & Phillip Alder Brings the Romex system to life through lively anecdotes instruction and quizzes. This book will improve your judgment and effectiveness, especially your slam bidding.	Item #1494 Price $ 9.95
	Godfrey's Stairway to the Stars A step-by-step guide to modern bidding by George Rosenkranz & Phillip Alder	Item #1493 Price $ 9.95
	Guide To Better Acol Bridge by Ron Klinger 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.	Item #1403 Price $ 19.95
	Guide To Better Bridge (Std. American) by Ron Klinger 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.	Item #1264 Price $ 17.95
	Helms to HELLO by Jerry Helms 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.	Item #1169 Price $ 9.95
	How I Became A Life Master Playing The Weak No Trump by Eric Luft 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.	Item #1334 Price $ 16.95
	Jacoby 2NT Practice Your Bidding Series by Barbara Seagram & Linda Lee 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.	Item #1175 Price $ 6.95
	Jacoby Transfers Practice Your Bidding Series by Barbara Seagram & Andy Stark 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.	Item #1176 Price $ 7.95
	Martens System by Krzysztof Martens The author's system, distinguished by mechanisms that allow one partner to control the bidding when it seems appropriate.	Item #1656 Price $ 20.00
	My System: The Unbalanced Diamond by Marshall Miles 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.	Item #1188 Price $ 18.95
	Pocket Guide to 2/1 by Paul Thurston 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.	Item #1204 Price $ 7.95
	Pocket Guide to Acol Bridge by Mark Horton & Barbara Seagram 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.	Item #1648 Price $ 9.95
	Pocket Guide To SAYC by Ned Downey & Ellen Pomer	Item #1734 Price $ 9.95
	Precision Today Second Edition by David Berkowitz & Brent Manley An invaluable tool for learning to play this accurate, dynamic bidding system.	Item #1603 Price $ 19.95
	Roman Keycard Blackwood (5th Edition) The Final Word by Eddie Kantar Definitive book on a convention that every serious player uses; completely revised and updated.	Item #1598 Price $ 22.95
	Standard Bidding with SAYC by Ned Downey & Ellen Pomer (Caitlin) 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.	Item #1225 Price $ 18.95
	Standard Bridge Bidding for the 21st Century by Max Hardy 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.	Item #1091 Price $ 19.95
	Sweep Q-Bids And Other Treatments by Ted Brashler	Item #1501 Price $ 9.95
	The Flannery Two Diamond Opening by Bill Flannery 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.	Item #1040 Price $ 7.95
	The Lebensohl Convention Complete by Ron Andersen 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.	Item #1025 Price $ 8.95
	The Mysterious Multi How To Play It, How To Play Against It by Mark Horton & Jan van Cleeff 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.	Item #1686 Price $ 22.95
	The Power System (Std. American Edition) by Ron Klinger 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.	Item #1271 Price $ 16.95
	The World Of Transfers by Krzysztof Martens Using transfers to overcome traditional problems in contested auctions.	Item #1658 Price $ 20.00
	Tournament Acol by David Bird & Tim Bourke 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.	Item #1383 Price $ 19.99
	Two Over One Game Force by Audrey Grant & Eric Rodwell Covers the basics of this popular variation of Standard American bidding methods.	Item #1627 Price $ 19.95
	Two-Over-One Game Force by Max Hardy 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.	Item #1054 Price $ 16.95
	Two-Over-One Game Force Quiz Book by Max Hardy 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.	Item #1055 Price $ 11.95
	Two-Over-One Game Force: An Introduction by Steve Bruno & Max Hardy 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.	Item #1032 Price $ 11.95
	Understanding Acol The Good Bidding Guide by Eric Crowhurst & Andrew Kambites 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.	Item #1356 Price $ 17.99
	Viking Precision Club A Relay System for the 21st Century by Glenn Groetheim & Alan Sontag	Item #1735 Price $ 16.95
	WJ05: A Modern Version of Polish Club by Krzysztof Jassem 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.	Item #1637 Price $ 18.95
	Workbook On The Two Over One System by Mike Lawrence The current system of choice for most experienced players today.	Item #1072 Price $ 12.95