ITEMS BY DANNY KLEINMAN
 | 365 Winning Bridge Tips by Danny Kleinman List Price: 272 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. 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 . . . read more. |
 | 365 Winning Bridge Tips (E-BOOK) by Danny Kleinman List Price: 272 pages. E-book (PDF • EPUB • MOBI) 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 . . . read more. |
 | An Entry, An Entry, My Kingdom For An Entry by Dr. James Marsh Sternberg • Danny Kleinman List Price: 170 pages. Paperback. This little word is vital in every bridge player's lexicon in its entirety, and especially important is the final syllable--TRY. A clear understanding of this topic should be one of the top priorities of every bridge player. When the dummy comes down, both the declarer and the defenders should be thinking about entries. Declarer is planning the transportation between the hands while the defenders . . . read more. |
 | Down The Convention Card (E-BOOK) by Danny Kleinman Price: $10.00 208 pages. E-book (PDF) This book will guide you through the ACBL convention card, outlining some of the options for each portion, and making some recommendations about which options to choose--always with partnership agreement and ample partnership discussion. Without partnership agreements, some calls are utterly unusable, as default meanings do not always exist. A properly filled-out convention card does not describe . . . read more. |
 | Eliminations and Endplays by Dr. James Marsh Sternberg • Danny Kleinman List Price: 155 pages. Paperback. Card play at bridge embraces both declarer play and defense. Hundreds of books have been written about it. Our approach here, as in our previous books, is to focus on a particular deal type. Repeated experience with a theme makes it easier to recognize deal types and employ the appropriate techniques for each. A common and important line of play is elimination play, eliminating the side suits to . . . read more. |
 | Human Bridge Errors Volume 1 of Infinity by Chthonic • Danny Kleinman • Nick Straguzzi List Price: 232 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. Chthonic, the irascible bridge-playing computer, is back. This time, he's attempting to teach humans a little about the game of bridge - not in order to turn them into competent players, as he recognizes that is impossible. But he thinks he may be able to get the reader to the point where his cell phone won't laugh at him behind his back every time he plays a card. Each chapter of this wickedly f . . . read more. |
 | Human Bridge Errors (E-BOOK) Volume 1 of Infinity by Chthonic • Danny Kleinman • Nick Straguzzi List Price: 232 pages. E-book (PDF • EPUB • MOBI) Chthonic, the irascible bridge-playing computer, is back. This time, he's attempting to teach humans a little about the game of bridge - not in order to turn them into competent players, as he recognizes that is impossible. But he thinks he may be able to get the reader to the point where his cell phone won't laugh at him behind his back every time he plays a card. Each chapter of this wickedly f . . . read more. |
 | LOL: It's Loser-On-Loser by Dr. James Marsh Sternberg • Danny Kleinman List Price: 168 pages. Paperback. Just what is LOL? Yes, a common abbreviation for Laughing Out Loud, and often used to refer to a Little Old Lady, but in bridge it means a Loser-On-Loser play. At times a declarer can improve his/her situation by playing a losing card from one hand on a loser in a different suit from the hand opposite. This occurs when a player has a loser in two suits but can arrange to lose them both on one tri . . . read more. |
 | Second Hand High, Third Hand Not So High No Rules, Just Right by Dr. James Marsh Sternberg • Danny Kleinman List Price: 206 pages. Paperback. "Second hand low" and "third hand high" are adages we learned in Bridge 101 along with others like "cover an honor with an honor" and "always return your partner's suit." These so-called rules will get you by, but they won't see you very far. Second hand must become familiar with certain basic positions to try to foil declarer's plans, often by playing second hand high. Likewise, many contracts a . . . read more. |
 | Simple Squeezes Made Simple by Dr. James Marsh Sternberg • Danny Kleinman List Price: 104 pages. Paperback. Squeezes. Just the word strikes fear into the heart of many bridge players. But simple squeezes are actually quite simple. The single or simple squeeze accounts for 90% of squeezes and 90% of this book deals with simple squeezes. If you wish to become more than just a mediocre bridge player mastering the techniques of basic simple squeeze play is a must. In any session of bridge of twenty or so d . . . read more. |
 | Slam Bidding (E-BOOK) by Danny Kleinman Price: $10.00 181 pages. E-book (PDF) Technique, philosophy and methods applied to slam-level decisions; many recommendations and evaluations of possibilities. . . . read more. |
 | Solving the Mystery of the Redouble by Dr. James Marsh Sternberg • Danny Kleinman List Price: 120 pages. Paperback. More often than any other calls in bridge, redoubles produce confusion. When they do, the resulting disasters are more catastrophic than any others. Many doubles originally treated as penalty have been supplanted by conventional doubles. So also many "business" redoubles, originally used to quadruple the stakes, have been diverted to other uses. In this book we shall show you how to tell the diff . . . read more. |
 | Suit Preference The Abused and Misused Signal by Dr. James Marsh Sternberg • Danny Kleinman List Price: 98 pages. Paperback. If there was ever an area in bridge that resembles walking thru a mine field this is it. No topic causes more confusion and arguments than suit preference signals. "Partner, I played a deuce. Why didn't you switch to a club?" is heard everywhere all the time. Most signals in bridge are attitude and some are count. At the end of the line are suit preference signals. And yet, they can be found in t . . . read more. |
 | The NoTrump Zone by Danny Kleinman List Price: 192 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. Notrump openings, and the constructive auctions that follow them, are two of the most neglected areas in bridge literature. Following on from his popular articles in the ACBL Bulletin, Kleinman discusses the principles behind notrump bids and rebids in a variety of situations, emphasizing the ideas and concepts rather than attempting to teach a series of rigid rules. . . . read more. |
 | The NoTrump Zone (E-BOOK) by Danny Kleinman List Price: 192 pages. E-book (PDF • EPUB • MOBI) Notrump openings, and the constructive auctions that follow them, are two of the most neglected areas in bridge literature. Following on from his popular articles in the ACBL Bulletin, Kleinman discusses the principles behind notrump bids and rebids in a variety of situations, emphasizing the ideas and concepts rather than attempting to teach a series of rigid rules. . . . read more. |
 | The Principle of Restricted Talent by Danny Kleinman • Nick Straguzzi List Price: 196 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. An anthology of humorous stories featuring Chthonic, the bridge-playing robot. The stories draw unmercifully funny portraits of human bridge players, as Chthonic's bridge brilliance and abrasive and ill-concealed contempt for his human creators leave them all in his wake. A particular target is the pompous Director of the Cybernetics Research Institute, whose opinion of his own bridge expertise d . . . read more. |
 | The Principle of Restricted Talent (E-BOOK) by Danny Kleinman • Nick Straguzzi List Price: 196 pages. E-book (PDF • EPUB • MOBI) An anthology of humorous stories featuring Chthonic, the bridge-playing robot. The stories draw unmercifully funny portraits of human bridge players, as Chthonic's bridge brilliance and abrasive and ill-concealed contempt for his human creators leave them all in his wake. A particular target is the pompous Director of the Cybernetics Research Institute, whose opinion of his own bridge expertise d . . . read more. |
 | The Search for a Second Suit by Dr. James Marsh Sternberg • Danny Kleinman List Price: 178 pages. Paperback. Becoming a good declarer starts with some basic principles. All the books tell you the same thing; before playing to Trick 1, think and form a plan. But what should you think about? Players often look at a deal and see a new mystery, a complex problem. They become overwhelmed. Of all the ways of winning tricks, cashing high cards and taking finesses are easiest. But establishing a long suit requi . . . read more. |
 | To Ruff or Not to Ruff by Dr. James Marsh Sternberg • Danny Kleinman List Price: 157 pages. Paperback. To ruff or not to ruff. The question seems so easy. To draw trumps promptly or is there something else to do first? Declarer has so many options. Ruff in dummy, a ruffing finesse, a crossruff, a dummy reversal, even a trump coup or scoring a trump 'en passant'. And preventing the opponents from obtaining ruffs. What about the defenders? Should they be the ones to draw trumps? Can they spin straw . . . read more. |
 | Trump Promotion The Uppercut by Dr. James Marsh Sternberg • Danny Kleinman List Price: 92 pages. Paperback. How do defenders win trump tricks? Other than having high honors, natural winners, it's by getting an early ruff of a short suit. Far more fulfilling and intriguing possibilities arise in poking away at declarer's trump suit and plucking out an unexpected trick. Trump promotion has been described as the magic of creating trump tricks that didn't exist at the beginning of the deal. The basis for t . . . read more. |
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