BOOKS ON BIDDING
 | 25 Bridge Conventions You Should Know 2nd Edition - Revised and Updated by Barbara Seagram • Marc Smith List Price: It doesn't take long before beginning bridge players want to know more about bidding systems, and especially about conventions. Even social players are usually keen to add a few choice gadgets to their bidding arsenal. Here 25 basic conventions and treatments are carefully explained, and the reader is shown how they can fit into standard bidding methods. Each section ends with a summary chart as . . . read more. |
 | 25 More Conventions You Should Know by Barbara Seagram • David Bird List Price: If you're comfortable with the material in Barbara Seagram's best-selling first book, then you're ready to move on to the more sophisticated bidding gadgets in this one. Even if you don't want to add all these to your own system, you need to be familiar with them because you'll find your opponents using them. Once again, each convention is clearly and simply explained, and you'll see how it fits . . . read more. |
 | 25 Ways to Compete in the Bidding by Barbara Seagram • Marc Smith List Price: Aimed at the same novice/social/intermediate player as their first book in the award-winning '25' series, this new title deals with competitive auctions in which the opponents have opened the bidding. This is the most complex area of bridge bidding, and never, until now, has it been dealt with comprehensively in a book that is understandable by non-experts. . . . read more. |
 | Better Slam Bidding With Bergen Companion workbook to Slam Bidding Made Easier by Marty Bergen List Price: YOU CAN Bid Slams Better! This perfect compliment to Slam Bidding Made Easier is loaded with valuable tips. A must-read for all players who want to bid slams better. Many helpful checklists are included to help solidify your partnership. In addition, you will learn: The only sure-fire way to improve your slam bidding. - Which agreements are essential for all RKC players. - How to evaluate your ha . . . read more. |
 | Bridge Conventions in Depth by Matthew Granovetter • Pamela Granovetter List Price: These wonderful agreements and gadgets turn your everyday bidding system into something personal, something that fits the exact style that you and your partner want to play. And now you can choose from some seventy expert-level ideas to add to your bidding arsenal, quickly and painlessly. . . . read more. |
 | Building a Bidding System by Roy Hughes List Price: This book discusses the theory of bridge bidding for advanced players, with emphasis on the principles that need to underpin an effective bidding system. These include the concepts of Useful Space, Relays, Transfers, Dialogue Bidding, as well as the conflicting needs for a system that is robust, antagonistic, and also accurate. The ideas are illustrated with dozens of example hands from champions . . . read more. |
 | Competitive Bidding in the 21st Century by Marshall Miles List Price: In this book, written for serious tournament players, Miles addresses the the complex arena of competitive bidding methods. Miles discusses current thinking, and recommends methods which will continue to be playable as bridge enters the 21st century. This book will appeal to more serious readers but can be enjoyed thoroughly by the advancing player. . . . read more. |
 | Competitive Bidding With Two-Suited Hands by Max Hardy List Price: Addresses inadequacies in standard methods and suggests invauable answers to previously ignored bidding problems. . . . read more. |
 | Cuebidding at Bridge A Modern Approach by Ken Rexford List Price: Everyone knows that control-showing bids are the expert route to slam, but it is remarkable hard to find a comprehensive treatment of this vital area of the game. Until now, that is. This is an exhaustive work, covering a lot of territory. The average reader won't agree with everything he reads - and it would be a mammoth undertaking to try and adopt it all - but it will get them thinking about t . . . read more. |
 | Cuebids in a Nutshell by Dee Berry List Price: The ability to grasp and use one single bridge tool, the cuebid, is the way to most easily judge those players who will make real progress in bridge. "Cuebids in a Nutshell" is dedicated to advancing students and players who want a firm grasp of the cuebid in it's many guises. Cuebid more and win more. . . . read more. |
 | Extra Length Transfer Bids Bidding Like Music by Krzysztof Martens List Price: Brings the reader up to date with cutting-edge suggestions for using the transfer principle. . . . read more. |
 | Focus on Bidding by Danny Roth List Price: This is not a book about systems, nor is it a book about conventions (although I confess I shall attempt to persuade you to adopt one or two in the course of it). This is a book about bidding and the places in the auction that we (and I use the word advisedly) go wrong. I don't care whether you prefer to play a weak or a strong notrump, or eight-card majors, or the Purple Spotted Forcing Club. Bu . . . read more. |
 | Following the Law by Larry Cohen List Price: Following the LAW, the sequel to To Bid or Not to Bid, was published in 1994, and took the basic concepts explained in the first book to a higher level of sophistication, while giving many practical examples from expert play of how to use the Law of Total Tricks correctly. Both books are must-reads for every improving bridge player. . . . read more. |
 | Four-Suit Transfers (PYB) Practice Your Bidding Series by Barbara Seagram • Andy Stark List Price: 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. With these handy little books, you can: Learn a new convention, or extend your knowledge of it; Learn and practice b . . . read more. |
 | Hand Evaluation, Bidding Decisions Bidding Like Music by Krzysztof Martens List Price: Expert-level valuation techniques, including adjustments based on analyzing the auction. . . . read more. |
 | Hand Evaluation: Points Schmoints Guaranteed to make YOU a Better Bidder by Marty Bergen List Price: In this book Marty goes a little further in discussing his "rule of twenty". The reader will learn to reevaluate honor cards to get a more accurate point count. Aces are generally worth more than 4, jacks are generally worth less than 1. Honors in your own suits are worth more if you play the hand. Anyone who enjoyed Points Schmoints will find this a useful addition to their bridge library. - Wha . . . read more. |
 | I Fought The Law (Of Total Tricks) by Mike Lawrence • Anders Wirgren List Price: Are you tired of using the Law of Total Tricks and wondering why there are often one or two tricks more or less than predicted? This book shows why this is so. --Take the case where there are sixteen trumps. There will be exactly sixteen tricks only 44% of the time. --Without distribution, ten trumps will not ensure safety at the four level. --Would you rather know how many tricks your side has o . . . read more. |
 | Improve Your Bidding Judgment by Neil Kimelman List Price: Bridge players are taught numerous rules to help them make good bidding decisions, rules that involve things like point count, losing trick count, the Law of Total Tricks and a host of other evaluation methods. But eventually everyone discovers that there are more situations where these rules don't apply than where they do. This book fills a gap in bridge literature by discussing how to make deci . . . read more. |
 | Introduction To Negative Doubles A Must-Read for the Aspiring Player by Marty Bergen List Price: Here is an introduction on one of the most widely-used conventions. Marty clarifies the best way to play each sequence, so you can avoid any misunderstandings with your partner. - Learn the secrets of the negative double. Find out how many points and what kind of hand you need to use this exciting bidding tool. - Opener's Rebids -- A plethora of carefully-chosen examples that will enlighten you. . . . read more. |
 | It's Your Call by Marshall Miles List Price: For about 25 years, Miles was the moderator of a monthly all-star bidding panel for a California bridge publication. This book is a compilation of his favorite problems from those years, together with the panel's views and the author's own trenchant comments. As ever, he goes his own way; he refuses, for example, to assign scores to various bids on the grounds that he wasn't going to give himse . . . read more. |
 | Larry Cohen's Bidding Challenge by Larry Cohen List Price: This book puts the reader at the table in the world's most prestigious Invitational Pairs tournaments. The author presents real-life hands from several of these tournaments as bidding problems that you can try with your own favorite partner. Then you can read Cohen's insightful analysis of how each pair of hands should be bid, and compare your results with those of the world-class experts who act . . . read more. |
 | Modern Constructive Bidding by Marshall Miles List Price: The logical follow-up to the author's best-selling Competitive Bidding in the 21st Century, this book deals with the latest expert thinking on constructive auctions at bridge. As usual, Miles' ideas are cutting edge, and not everything he recommends will appeal to everyone. However, also as usual, he challenges his readers to think and question what they are currently doing, and convince themselv . . . read more. |
 | Negative Doubles A Must Read for Every Partnership by Marty Bergen List Price: The negative double is one of the most important bidding tools in modern bridge. In consequence, popular author and teacher Marty Bergen has written a book all about this deadly bidding weapon. Of course, the good old basics are covered, in a style that even the beginner will understand. Responses to the double are detailed, not forgetting the Penalty Pass - yummee! New concepts such as Thrump do . . . read more. |
 | Points Schmoints Bergen's Winning Bridge Secrets by Marty Bergen List Price: Bridge Book of the Year. Loaded with helpful tips. Here, collected in one delightful volume, are more than 65 gems, guaranteed to increase your enjoyment of bridge and your ability to win. Marty Bergen shares the secrets that have led to 10 National Championships. With elegant style and refreshing simplicity, Marty reveals: - The Rule of 20--a reliable yardstick for opening the bidding. - When no . . . read more. |
 | Roman Keycard Blackwood (PYB) Practice Your Bidding Series by Barbara Seagram • Linda Lee List Price: 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. . . . read more. |
 | Splinter Bids (PYB) Practice Your Bidding Series by Barbara Seagram • Linda Lee List Price: 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. . . . read more. |
 | Stayman Auctions (PYB) Practice Your Bidding Series by Barbara Seagram • Linda Lee List Price: 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. . . . read more. |
 | The Complete Book On Balancing In Contract Bridge Revised Edition by Mike Lawrence List Price: Since it was first published, this has been the definitive book on the tough topic of balancing your bridge hand. It examines auctions where the opponents bid something and you are given the opportunity to either let them have it or to balance. This revised and expanded edition is updated to reflect modern bidding practices and covers almost any possible auction. The cost of not balancing can be . . . read more. |
 | The Complete Book On Overcalls in Contract Bridge A Mike Lawrence Classic 2nd Edition by Mike Lawrence List Price: Originally published in 1980, this book quickly became recognized as a must-read for any would-be bridge expert, and has never been out of print. Now, almost 30 years later, the author has revised, updated and expanded it to take into account modern developments in the theory and practice of competitive bidding. Anyone who is at all serious about improving their game needs to own a copy of this . . . read more. |
 | The NoTrump Zone by Danny Kleinman List Price: 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 Weak Notrump How To Play it, How To Play Against It by Andy Stark List Price: All North American players are taught to play using a strong notrump, but that is not the way of the rest of the world. Even in North America, weak notrump systems, or even Kamikaze notrump systems, are becoming more common. This book discusses the advantages and disadvantages of playing a system with a weaker notrump opening, and shows how the 1NT range impacts the rest of the bidding system. E . . . read more. |
 | To Bid or Not To Bid by Larry Cohen List Price: Since its publication in 1992, To Bid or Not to Bid has sold over 50,000 copies in English alone and has been published in several other languages. Undoubtedly the best-selling bridge book of the 1990s, its lucid exposition of the empirical Law of Total Tricks (a simple guide to making the right decisions in competitive bridge auctions) has made it a book that literally every serious bridge playe . . . read more. |
 | Wielding The Axe The Vanishing Art of the Penalty Double by Augie Boehm List Price: Nothing exemplifies the keen competitive spirit of tournament bridge better than the penalty double. Acquire a feel for opportunistic doubles, add a potent weapon to your arsenal, avoid dangerous gambles, and become a more feared opponent. . . . read more. |
 | Win At Duplicate Bridge Bid Difficult Bridge Hands Like An Expert by Fred Parker List Price: This book teaches modern bridge bidding techniques to the intermediate duplicate bridge player. It describes and fully explains all modern conventions, including the two-over-one system. The book is full of examples on how to bid difficult hands, and explains the nuances of expert bidding practices. It advises the player which conventions are most useful and how to play them. It is an invaluable . . . read more. |
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