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ITEMS BY MARK HORTON

	25 Conventions for ACOL Players by Sandra Landy • Mark Horton • Barbara Seagram List Price: ~~$19.95~~ Your Discount Price: $18.95 216 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. 25 Bridge Conventions You Should Know (Seagram & Smith 1996), has sold over 60,000 copies in four different languages - which makes it the best-selling bridge book of the last 50 years. This book uses the same user-friendly approach and features to explain the most important bidding conventions for players who use the ACOL system - which means essentially everyone in the UK. . . . read more.
	Better Signalling Now by Mark Horton List Price: ~~$15.95~~ Your Discount Price: $13.56 128 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. Good defensive carding agreements can improve the scores of any partnership in any session they play. This text takes readers through the modern options in terms of defensive signalling, and allows them to construct a system that suits their own style. Based on a previous book by the same author, this revised edition incorporates numerous suggestions and improvements from experts Tim Bourke and S . . . read more.
	Bridge Master vs. Bridge Amateur by Mark Horton List Price: ~~$18.95~~ Your Discount Price: $16.11 184 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. What makes a bridge expert, and why does he always come out on top compared to the average club player? No, it's not the ability to execute esoteric squeezes and endplays - they simply don't come up enough to account for the way the experts consistently win against weaker opposition. This book is a collection of deals that illustrate the difference between the expert player and the would-be exper . . . read more.
	Close Encounters: Bridge's Greatest Matches Book 1 (1964-2001) by Eric Kokish • Mark Horton List Price: ~~$21.95~~ Your Discount Price: $18.66 262 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. Close Encounters is a two-book series that describes some of the most memorable bridge matches of the last fifty years. It features titanic struggles for World and National titles, involving the greatest players from North America and Europe. There are amazing comebacks, down to the wire finishes, overtime victories, and an insight into how the game has changed over the last half century. Book 1 . . . read more.
	Close Encounters: Bridge's Greatest Matches Book 2 (2003-2017) by Eric Kokish • Mark Horton List Price: ~~$24.95~~ Your Discount Price: $21.21 318 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. Close Encounters is a two-book series that describes some of the most memorable bridge matches of the last fifty years. It features titanic struggles for World Championship and National titles, involving the greatest players from North America and Europe. There are amazing comebacks, down to the wire finishes, overtime victories, and insights into what it takes to win a match against determined o . . . read more.
	For Love or Money The Life of a Bridge Journalist by Mark Horton • Brian Senior List Price: ~~$18.95~~ Your Discount Price: $16.11 192 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. Great hands and amusing anecdotes - a behind-the-scenes look at international bridge. Brian Senior and Mark Horton are experienced international players, and also two of the world's top bridge journalists. In one or the other capacity they have attended every World Championship and major international tournament in the last twenty years, and in this book they share their unique knowledge and expe . . . read more.
	Last Board Everything Depends On It by Mark Horton List Price: ~~$22.95~~ Your Discount Price: $19.51 242 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. Over 100 years of bridge history, it is not surprising that one can find many matches that came down to the last board, or even the last card, played. And of course, there is an added poignancy in these situations that derives from the fact that bridge is a unique sport in one aspect--the players do not know the score. In this book, the authors collect dozens of fascinating deals, each of which i . . . read more.
	Misbid These Hands With Me by Mark Horton List Price: ~~$19.95~~ Your Discount Price: $16.96 197 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. In 2007, Horton wrote Misplay These Hands with Me, a deliberate homage to Reese's classic, Play These Hands with Me. The difference was that the declarer in Horton's book always made an error, sometimes obvious, sometimes not so much. This successful book was the basis of a long-running column in the ACBL's Bridge Bulletin, a sequel in 2019, and earlier this year, Misdefend These Hands with Me. N . . . read more.
	Misdefend These Hands with Me by Mark Horton List Price: ~~$19.95~~ Your Discount Price: $16.96 200 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. In 2007, Mark Horton wrote Misplay These Hands with Me, a deliberate homage to Reese's classic, Play These Hands with Me. The difference was that the declarer in Horton's book always made an error, sometimes obvious, sometimes not so much. This successful book was the basis of a long-running column in the ACBL's Bridge Bulletin, and a sequel appeared in 2019. Now the same author turns to the topi . . . read more.
	Misplay More Hands with Me by Mark Horton List Price: ~~$19.95~~ Your Discount Price: $16.96 184 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. This is the sequel to Misplay These Hands With Me (2007), which is based on Horton's popular series of articles in the ACBL Bulletin. In an over-the-shoulder style, the author offers an account of a plausible line of play on each example hand, always without success, then gently points out how the contract could and should have been made with just a little more thought. Perfect for improving play . . . read more.
	Misplay These Hands With Me by Mark Horton List Price: ~~$18.95~~ Your Discount Price: $16.11 208 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. The late Terence Reese, perhaps the greatest bridge writer of all time, introduce the 'over-the-shoulder' style of bridge writing in his classic Play These Hands with Me. In this wry homage to the master, Horton leads the reader through a plausibly logical line of play on each instructive deal, but one that ends in failure. In each post-mortem, the 'expert' realizes how he could have improved on . . . read more.
	The Bridge Magicians by Mark Horton • Radoslaw Kielbasinski List Price: ~~$19.95~~ Your Discount Price: $18.95 192 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. This is two books in one. You can treat it is an advanced text on declarer play, trying to solve each problem hand as it comes up. Or you can just relax and enjoy finding out more about these Polish stars who have won more international medals than the players from any other country over the last twenty years. . . . read more.
	The Hands of Time The Most Exciting Bridge Deals Ever Played by Mark Horton List Price: ~~$18.95~~ Your Discount Price: $18.00 196 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. A fascinating collection of the 'best of the best', selected by one of the world's top bridge writers. Taken from nearly a hundred years of bridge history, these deals will provide any bridge player with hours of fascinating reading. Each of them has its own unique point of interest, sometimes deriving from a brilliant maneuver in the play or bidding, sometimes from the circumstances surrounding . . . read more.
	The Mysterious Multi How To Play It, How To Play Against It by Mark Horton • Jan van Cleeff List Price: ~~$22.95~~ Your Discount Price: $19.51 208 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. 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 i . . . read more.
	The Pocket Guide to Acol Bridge by Mark Horton • Barbara Seagram List Price: ~~$9.95~~ Your Discount Price: $9.45 64 pages. Booklet. Also available as an E-book. 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 . . . read more.
	The Rabbi's Rules Tips and Tricks to Improve Your Game by Mark Horton • Eric Kokish List Price: ~~$19.95~~ Your Discount Price: $16.96 240 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. Built around real-life deals featuring the bridge-playing rabbi, Leonard Helman, this book contains a wealth of tips on bidding and play for the advancing player. Even experts will learn from some of the bidding ideas, drawn from Eric Kokish's encyclopedic coaching files. . . . read more.
	The Rodwell Files The Secrets Of A World Bridge Champion by Eric Rodwell • Mark Horton List Price: ~~$27.95~~ Your Discount Price: $23.76 288 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. 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 i . . . read more.