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THE BRIDGE WORLD

Play Bridge With Me

Item ImagePlay Bridge With Me
by Frank Stewart
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216 pages. Paperback.

The "over-my-shoulder" genre in bridge literature allows the reader to get into the mind of an expert player and follow their thought processes. The reader is exposed to techniques--such as counting and drawing inferences--that are supposedly reserved for experts. The author focuses on logical thinking, and problem solving. During a session, a player faces hundres of decisions. Some can be resolved with little thought, but many require reasoning--that is what a player finds exhilarating: He has a problem and figures out the answer. In this book, you sit beside the author for 90 intermediate-level deals and compare your decisions with his. In the introduction to this book, Mr. Stewart asks "Why do we play bridge, anyway? Certainly not to memorize a bidding system or adhere to a set of rules. The game's appeal lies in the problem-solving. That is what a player finds exhilarating: He has a problem and figures out the answer."