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 | 25 Bridge Myths Exposed by David Bird List Price: Do you remember the first few times you played bridge? To get you started, a friend probably gave you a few helpful hints -- perhaps one of the ones listed to the left. There are many such general guidelines for bridge players -- some of them valuable, some not. But these are the Bridge Myths, not the Bridge Rules -- because they all have exceptions and none should be followed blindly. In reading . . . read more. |
 | 365 Winning Bridge Tips by Danny Kleinman List Price: 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. |
 | Bergen's Best Bridge Quizzes - Vol. 1 Sharpen Your Skills and Fill In the Gaps by Marty Bergen List Price: This interactive book uses Q&A with thorough, helpful explanations to allow the reader to test himself on bidding, declarer play, defense and opening leads. A brand-new series, guaranteed to improve your game and help you win more often. - Understand how to invite slam without getting too high - Know how to squeeze your opponents (and not yourself) - OBAR-BIDS: competitive bidding and opening lea . . . read more. |
 | Bid Better, Play Better by Dorothy Hayden Truscott List Price: This classic book on bridge, a best-seller for more than 30 years, has been totally revised by the author. It helps a beginner follow the road to expertise, and allows a traditional bidder to move into the world of modern bidding. Quizzes at the end of most chapters permit readers to test themselves. . . . read more. |
 | Demon Defense and Demon Doubling Defend With Skill and Double for Keeps Third Edition by Augie Boehm List Price: This book teaches the principles of good defense. When you feel reasonably confident about your ability to defend, you will feel more secure in doubling the opponents. Successful penalty doubles are a sure way to improve your performance. Using the Socratic method, the book links defense to penalty doubles in a sequential progression. This book will have strong appeal to tournament players of int . . . read more. |
 | Frank Stewart's World Of Bridge by Frank Stewart List Price: Hard-edged observations from the syndicated columnist; over-the-shoulder stories, and insight into expert views on bidding and play. Some of Frank Stewart's opinions about the current state of bridge: The standard of play has declined; There's been an explosion of professionalism in tournaments; An influx of foreign experts is dominating U.S. tournaments; In Bidding, system is supplanting judgeme . . . read more. |
 | How Good Is Your Bridge? by Danny Roth List Price: Rate your bridge game with this fascinating quiz book on declarer play and defense. The author presents a series of card play problems, and assigns the reader a score based on how close to the optimum solution they get. Readers can expect their scores to improve as they work through the book, inevitably learning as they go. . . . read more. |
 | How You Can Play Like An Expert (Without Having To Be One) by Mel Colchamiro List Price: Mel's 21st Century Rules and Other Guidelines for Winning at Your Level and Above. Expert thinking, simply summarized. Geared to low intermediates, this book addresses criteria for opening, and, in specific situations, responding, inviting, and accepting game-tries. Mel's unique "user-friendly" writing style enables the reader to learn how to think like the experts do. He includes sound advice fr . . . read more. |
 | Judgment At Bridge What Went Wrong? Avoid the Common Errors by Mike Lawrence List Price: Covers the short club, the takeout double, sign-offs, overbidding, suit preference, and many other neglected areas of the game. . . . read more. |
 | Kantar on Kontract by Eddie Kantar List Price: A treasury of short pieces from one of the bridge world's favorite writers. Great stories, great hands, tips and tricks to help your game - the best of the best! . . . read more. |
 | Marty Sez: Volume 2 More Secrets of Winning Bridge by Marty Bergen List Price: Marty Bergen has done it again. Regardless of your level, this book is guaranteed to improve your results and make you a more formidable opponent. One of the most celebrated bridge authors of our time, Marty explains: When it's okay to rebid a five-card suit - Bidding secrets that even experts don't know - How to bid good slams, and avoid poor ones - The best way to plan an endplay - How to decla . . . read more. |
 | Marty Sez: Volume 3 Practical Tips You Can Take To the Bank by Marty Bergen List Price: The third book in this popular series is guaranteed to do wonders for your bridge game. Highlights include a smorgasbord of competitive bidding tips as well as over two dozen carefully-explained full deals, each with a valuable lesson. - A technique every declarer must have at his fingertips. - How you can compete with "unbiddable" hands. - Why you can't afford to worry about sneak attacks. - How . . . read more. |
 | More Hocus Pocus by Erwin Brecher • Julian Pottage List Price: Master puzzler Erwin Brecher teams up with top bridge problemist Julian Pottage to present as second collection of bridge problems, math brain-teasers and logic puzzles . . . read more. |
 | My Favorite 52 Larry Cohen's Best Bridge Deals by Larry Cohen List Price: Using an intimate 'over-the-shoulder' presentation, the reader is taken through 60-odd deals from the author's own experience, deals that were important to him in some way, technically interesting, or just plain fun. The interactive style allows the reader to follow Larry's bidding and play, and make their own decisions at key points. The material was originally published as interactive software, . . . read more. |
 | Partnership Understandings Blue Ribbon Series by Mike Lawrence List Price: Stop bidding misunderstandings before they occur with this valuable guide. This booklet covers all the significant points you should discuss with your partner. . . . read more. |
 | Play Bridge With Mike Lawrence by Mike Lawrence List Price: A two-session matchpoint event at a regional tournament. How to gather information from the auction, the play of the cards, the atmosphere at the table, when to go against the field. Recommended for: bright beginners through expert. . . . read more. |
 | Private Sessions: A Bridge Education by Augie Boehm List Price: The best way to enjoy bridge, and win more often, is to learn how to think. This is the essence of Augie Boehm's Private Sessions. In its pages, Augie reveals: -How to improve your bridge memory. - The benefits of visualization. -The fine points of hand evaluation. -Passing--how it is the secret weapon. -What a singleton honor is really worth. -The importance of the fourth trump. -The value of ti . . . read more. |
 | Reading the Cards (BT) Bridge Technique Series by David Bird • Marc Smith List Price: Short and full of practical examples, each book takes the reader through the most important aspects of card-play technique at bridge. Where appropriate, play is examined from the point of view both of declarer and defenders. Full of quizzes and chapter reviews, these award-winning books will also reinforce the bridge concepts you learn. . . . read more. |
 | Reading the Cards (TYBT) Test Your Bridge Technique Series by David Bird • Tim Bourke List Price: Short and full of practical examples, each book takes the reader through the most important aspects of card-play technique at bridge. Where appropriate, play is examined from the point of view both of declarer and defenders. Full of quizzes and chapter reviews, these award-winning books will also reinforce the bridge concepts you learn. . . . read more. |
 | Ron Klinger Answers Your Bridge Queries by Ron Klinger List Price: Are you having a problem at bridge or a disagreement with your partner? Ron Klinger, one of the leading bridge teachers, replies to bridge questions from players around the world in this stimulating book. . . . read more. |
 | Take All Your Chances At Bridge by Eddie Kantar List Price: Selecting the best line of play as declarer on a bridge hand is not easy. Most novices know something about basic odds and percentages, and can usually come up with a line that offers a reasonable chance of success. However, the expert player will skilfully combine options, so as to take advantage of more than one possibility. Rather than putting all his eggs in one basket, he will 'stay alive . . . read more. |
 | Take All Your Chances At Bridge - Vol. 2 by Eddie Kantar List Price: Take All Your Chances at Bridge was published in 2009 and has already been reprinted twice. It won the American Bridge Teachers 2010 Book of the Year Award for best intermediate-level book. In this sequel, Kantar presents another collection of play problems for advancing players. Again, the theme is not just finding a good line of play: the trick is to combine as many possible lines as possible t . . . read more. |
 | The Best of Bridge Today Digest by Matthew Granovetter • Pamela Granovetter List Price: Bridge Today Digest recently celebrated its first anniversary (and 100th issue) as an Internet-based "bridge-zine". It is renowned for its practical advice, its wonderful bridge stories, and the wry humor and personal touch of its editors. For this collection, they have selected the very best pieces from their first year, and have come up with a compendium that every bridge player can read, enjoy . . . read more. |
 | The Secrets of Winning Bridge Second Edition by Jeff Rubens List Price: The classic, easy-to-understand shortcut to winning bridge. Jeff Rubens' classic book is as relevant today as when it was first published to critical acclaim. The secrets herein are not system-dependent; they pertain to general bridge skills and to bridge thinking. The book consistently makes successful bridge players' top-10 list of most influential books. Now back in print in a modernized Secon . . . read more. |
 | There Must Be A Way 52 Bridge Hands to Challenge your Play and Defense by Andrew Diosy List Price: Most bridge players pride themselves on their ability at post-mortem analysis -- figuring out what should happen on a given hand with best play and perfect defense. But sometimes it's not so easy. Andrew Diosy has collected 52 bridge hands, graded into increasing levels of difficulty, where the obvious answer is usually wrong. As you look further into each hand, you find that there are more layer . . . read more. |
 | Things Your Bridge Teacher Won't Tell You by Dan Romm List Price: Most bridge books ignore the fact that bridge is a game between opponents, simply teaching players how to strive for theoretical perfection in bidding and play. Dan Romm isn't interested in that - he's interested in winning, which is something he has done for more than forty years against the best players around. Romm also isn't very interested in tournaments - mostly he plays for money; he pla . . . read more. |
 | Three Notrump in Depth by Augie Boehm List Price: Part I of this book will equip you with a variety of useful, easy-to-master bidding tools to help you and partner discover when to grab the 3NT brass ring, and, just as important, when to avoid it. Reaching good 3NT contracts doesn't confer an automatic bonus-there is that niggling rule about needing to make what you bid. So, Part II is dedicated to the play of 3NT. Since you are apt to defend 3N . . . read more. |
 | What's Your Call? The Bridge Player's Handbook of Basic Bidding by Frank Stewart List Price: This book helps intermediate players improve their valuation skills and provides a sound bidding foundation. Focusing more on judgment than on system, the author utilizes a question-and-answer format, with quizzes and short tutorials. Each chapter discusses a different stage of the auction, from the opening bid onwards. The author presents his views on key issues, followed by a series of problems . . . read more. |
 | You Have to See This by Andrew Diosy • Linda Lee List Price: A brilliant sequel to There Must Be A Way, this book presents fifty-two more problems in post-mortem analysis. The two-step solution approach has been retained, and the hands are no less fun. Again, the reader is challenged to decide whether each hand can be made with best play and defence. For variety, in this book some hands are presented in single dummy format as well. . . . read more. |
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