All 52 Cards By Marshall Miles. A clear discussion of counting, card-reading and other techniques experts use to reconstruct concealed hands at the bridge table. A recently updated collection of some of the late author's best problems for intermediate and advanced players. Excellent intermediate-level guides for improving your accuracy in two important areas of bidding. Defense and declarer-play problems with a focus on inferences, common themes and partnership defense skills.
The explanations include example hands and revision quizzes. Instructional books with good advice and many example hands. A reprint with provocative bridge hands and a cast of fictional, historical and mythological characters.
This pocket-size book features concise, easy-to-understand tips on a wide range of bridge topics -- from devising a bidding system to reading your opponents' cards. Unique problem books where you're shown all four hands and asked whether declarer or defenders should prevail with best play.
A fascinating challenge for the advancing player. Almost practical and interesting play problems with excellent analyses. By Julian Pottage. Instruction, examples and quizzes that demonstrate how to bid, play and defend a wide range of hands. Each chapter features a "golden rule", with good descriptions of how and when to use each technique, how it works, and when the rule should be broken.
Instruction and examples on choosing defensive strategies and visualizing declarer's possible hands. These classics were out of print for many years, but are now available in attractive new volumes reprinted in and All offer valuable instruction and fascinating, often brilliant, analyses for advancing players. Knowing when to break the guidelines for bidding and play is one of the marks of an expert player. This is the first of a planned four-book series that focuses on situations where you need to do something that seems to go against the old advice, but is the killing lead or play.
Subtitled "The Art of Bamboozling at Bridge" -- how to use deceptive carding to take more tricks as declarer and defender. Fifty instructive deals that focus on how an expert analyzes the opening lead and plans the play of the hand. The author discusses bridge techniques and some intangibles -- adaptability, psychology, partnership skills -- that are necessary to become a winning bridge player. The emphasis is on when to ignore rules and use your judgment to find the best bid or play.
The British author makes a case for the advantages of the Standard American 2-over-1 bidding system and encourages his countrymen and other Acol System players to make the switch. Includes step-by-step instructions, quizzes and suggestions for adding optional conventions. Two comprehensive guides to every aspect of play and defense, with tips on strategy, technique and psychology. Hundreds of example hands clearly demonstrate the principles.
Explains many of the major conventions used by modern players in a more readable but not as comprehensive format than Kearse's Bridge Conventions Completete.
If you're just beginning to add new conventions to your system and want to know which are most valuable, this is an excellent choice. A discussion of false cards and other deceptive plays by your opponents, the situations where they're most likely to occur and counter-measures you can take to nullify the threat.
Valuable books that concentrate on developing your judgment and decision-making skills. Roth explains the most common causes of errors and provides clear, readable explanations of how to recognize the dangerous situations and correct your technique. How Good is Your Bridge? Presented as quizzes, the deals focus on bad decisions made by experts. The author rates the solutions and offers advice on how to accurately judge difficult auctions and avoid bad boards.
Each book presents dozens of deals played by experts and shows readers how to think through the problems. Numerous example deals show the reader how to focus on the most relevant aspects of a problem and arrive at the right play at the crucial moment. All books in the "25" series offer clear, simple explanations of practical aspects of bidding and play.
Each book has good material on the basics and includes tips and ideas for more advanced players. The Pocket Guides are condensed versions of the full books. The "Practice Your Bidding" series, featuring simple explanations and many examples for each bidding tool.
A sequel to Planning the Play of a Bridge Hand , this new volume focuses on the use of more advanced techniques. It covers safety plays, avoidance plays, trump control situations, dummy reversals and endplays. Advice and examples on bidding, play and defense, summarized from lessons the author has been offering to her students over the last 20 years.
Should I or Shouldn't I? By Marc Smith. Good instruction on trump management, with an emphasis on the types of deals where you need to delay drawing trumps or take special care when leading the suit. The author gives a step-by-step instructions for how to spot these situations at the table and learn the proper techniques for handling them.
A revised and enlarged edition of the author's book on how to make more hands as declarer and beat more of the opponents' contracts when you're defending. By Frank Stewart. Highly readable books, each with excellent advice on constructive bidding, logical thinking and card reading. Stewart also offers ideas on developing your "table presence" and understanding other psychological aspects of the game.
Two titles that present strategies and techniques designed to help readers improve their performance in pair games. Explanations and recommendations of useful conventions and treatments for competitive bidding. The book also provides an overview of the fundamentals of preempting, making overcalls and using various types of doubles. The author covers many useful agreements and conventions that can improve slam bidding.
The book also offers tips for judging slam situations and dealing with competition, plus several quiz hands. Winning at Matchpoints By Bill Treble. An overview of how matchpoint scoring works and strategies that will help you succeed in pair events. The book includes tips on bidding, play and defense and many example deals.
Well-written, often humorous, advice for beginners who know the fundamentals and want to reduce their mistakes. Surviving Duplicate Bridge: The first The author shares the highs and lows of learning duplicate bridge with her husband as her partner.
She also includes tips on how bridge teachers can help students become more comfortable with the game. A humorous and instructional discussion of how to avoid common errors at the bridge table. The character of Professor Gaston Gitane-Gauloise demonstrates his unique Inverted Bridge Teaching Method, showing you by example what not to do when playing bridge. Bergen outlines his personal recommendations for conventions and treatments, many of which are now widely used by tournament players.
Read these books with your partner. You'll need to choose your agreements carefully and discuss them at length, but you'll find that many of his gadgets are practical, powerful weapons. An exploration of twelve critical areas of declarer play and defense. The authors show how expert plays that appear to be inspired guesses are actually the result of careful logic.
An unusual look at the common problem of finding the best lead to a notrump contract. The authors analyzed more than , computer-generated deals and came up with interesting, often surprising, recommendations. A summary of 15 useful techniques for declarers, with numerous instructional deals to illustrate the variations. The author emphasizes "outside-the-box" thinking to develop judgment, solve bidding problems and evaluate borderline hands.
A unique look at how experts think through the play of a bridge hand. The chapters and examples explain how to anticipate the likely distribution, use logic and visualization, "listen" to the cards and other ways to make what appear to be mpossible contracts.
Bridge at the Edge By Boye Brogeland. An "over-the-shoulder" look at almost deals the author played in World and European Championships. Brogeland also discusses his partnership bidding methods and his approach to the mental side of the game. This special gift edition features winning articles from the annual Bols Bridge Tips contest. The practical, insightful advice comes from almost of the best bridge writers in the world. An interesting set of bridge problems that are solved by the author's unique approach to planning the auction, judging his opponents and using deceptive bidding.
The late author was a poker columnist for Card Player magazine. Named Bridge Book of the Year, the first title is so widely read that it revolutionized modern competitive bidding.
It contains many advanced topics and analyses, but the basic principles can be easily understood and used by intermediate-level players. The sequel clarifies and reinforces some of the most important principles of "Law" bidding. Bidding problems and expert analysis of hands played at the prestigious invitational tournament at The Hague. An optional tear-out section at the back can be used by partners who want to practice bidding the hands before reading Cohen's analysis.
Originally published in , this is a detailed manual of technique "as used by the leading contract bridge tournament players". The chapters offer numerous examples of expert bidding and play, with an interesting selection of hands from tournaments. The author offers research to demonstrate the flaws of the honor point count. He proposes a new evaluation method that assesses the combined value of both partners' hands.
The discussion includes more than example hands. A simplified version of the big-club system played by Jeff Meckstroth and Eric Rodwell. Two very challenging collections, each with 52 diabolical play and defense problems where the "obvious" answer is usually wrong. Diosy analyzes each deal from declarer's and defenders' perspectives, with a trick-by-trick description of how each side can counter the other's strategies.
Partnership Agreements By Clarke Fairbrother. A guidebook that's designed to take a partnership through the process of developing a bidding a system.
It covers conventions, treatments and system agreements in detail both Standard American and 2-over-1 systems in detail, along with many conventions. The included Partnership Agreements Checklist offers an organized outline for discussing agreements and conventions. A new bidding system designed to improve on natural systems that use "convenient minor" openings. The author also assigns new meanings to opener's rebids and notrump opening bids. A collection of of the most spectacular hands played by the legendary Italian Blue Team.
The book also includes a summary of the Italian bidding systems and accounts of Blue Team triumphs world championships. This is the first book from the world-class player who developed the popular Internet bridge club Bridge Base Online.
The over-the-shoulder format offers insights into the author's thinking on dozens of hands from actual play. There's also a focus on bridge personalities, and the author includes many interesting observations about his partners and opponents.
Expert-level account of the author's experiences in one of the toughest of all ACBL team events. The detailed hand analyses focus on technique, psychology and strategies for playing in board-a-match events.
A reference set for the 5-card-major system, with a thorough discussion of modern bidding trends and expert treatments, plus some new ideas. This text discusses the modern options for defensive signaling and helps you construct a system that suits your partnership style. Based on a previous book by the same author, this revised edition incorporates new ideas from experts Tim Bourke and Sandra Landy. Many bridge hands and analysis, along with personal insights into the group of Polish experts who have had incredible international successes over the past ten years.
Everything you would ever want to know about the Multi 2D convention, which is used to describe a weak two-bid in an undisclosed major. Many interesting and challenging hands, where you watch an expert declare and defend, with opportunities to make your own decisions at critical points in the play. A thorough, expert-level discussion of every type of competitive auction, with recommendations for useful conventions and agreements. A detailed discussion of bidding theory and the principles that govern the design of an effective system.
The author offers creative ideas and clear explanations of concepts that have not been covered extensively in other books. An excellent guide to gathering clues from the bidding and drawing inferences from the play, with a good selection of challenging problems.
Also recommended is Jannersten's Play It Safe - And Win , which offers good advice on how to play fairly difficult hands. Three volumes that offer insights into expert thought processes as you play example deals from major tournaments held in India. Written in a conversational style, the books stress logical and creative thinking and offer some unique ideas about the value of using "gut feelings" to make decisions.
Difficult defensive problems with unexpected twists. The problems and analyses demonstrate how to assess the situation, picture the unseen hands and decide if an unusual or psychological solution is needed.
The fifth edition of the definitive book on the convention used by almost all serious players. Revised and updated, this new version contains leading-edge ideas and is full of examples, quizzes and practice hands.
A must for the tournament player. A "greatest hits" collection of Kaplan's articles from Bridge World magazine, published after his death in Two classics, with thorough analyses of the principles and excellent example deals. Bridge for the Connoisseur By Hugh Kelsey.
Analysis of 58 interesting and instructional deals, many featuring blunders and brilliancies from international tournaments. A good discussion of the principles and concepts that apply to notrump auctions, with many challenging concepts and system recommendations. The author covers all 1NT ranges and offers excellent discussions of how they affect your other system bids. By Julian Laderman. An award-winning instructional book and its sequel offer how-to's for executing various types of squeeze plays as declarer.
Practical mathematics for bridge players, featuring the principles of probability and how to apply them at the table. The two volumes include discussions of vacant spaces, restricted choice, conditional probability and how divisions of one suit affect the odds of other suit divisions. A book of problems in defensive cardplay by a top Australian expert. The deals come from real events, providing the reader the unique experience of being up against a declarer who will not always play perfectly.
A collection of deals that pose challenging problems in card play. Presented as quizzes, all the deals were played by the author and his partners and have stories behind them. A fascinating look into expert thinking as one of the world's best players competes in the Bermuda Bowl world team championship. The format gives readers the opportunity to make their own decisions at critical stages in each deal and compare their solutions with what the author did at the table.
Inferences at Bridge By Marshall Miles. The author shows how to collect vital clues from the bidding and play to make logical conclusions about the unseen hands.
He includes many common situations where even advanced players will often miss the correct inferences. Remembering just one or two of the ideas explained here will improve any player's results. Designed for serious tournament players, these books offer interesting analyses of bidding decisions and approaches. Miles discusses current thinking, poses original ideas and recommends methods that will be successful over the long term.
A reprinted instructional book, with excellent analysis of many difficult defensive problems. A reprint of a previously hard-to-find classic that's considered by many to be the best book ever written on card play. A collection of brilliant plays from real life, with well-written explanations of the logic behind each decision. The problems range from "technically simple" to extremely complex, with a focus on plays that are difficult to find, but easy to execute.
Challenging bridge problems, math brain teasers and logic puzzles. An homage to Right Through the Pack , one of the most popular and successful bridge books of all time. The author uses the same theme as Darvas did in the original, where all 52 members of the deck of cards tell their stories. This is an update of a classic that offers an illuminating look at the three types of mistakes -- costly, common and forgivable -- made by bidders, defenders and declarers.
The new edition was updated by Ron Klinger to include more modern bidding theories. Expanded and updated versions of Reese's originals, these books focus on planning the play and finding an advantage. Each book presents a wide range of problems, many of them quite difficult. Edited and updated by Mark Horton, these two volumes are a compilation of eight highly rated booklets that have long been out of print. A classic and very challenging quiz book. Kantar says anyone who correctly solves at least 60 percent of the 75 problems has the right to consider himself an expert defender.
Excellent instruction on the techniques needed to handle common but difficult problems in the play. Reese groups the problems by theme so you can study different variations of the same situation. A new approach for bidding strong hands, featuring two forcing opening bids 2C and 2D to describe distribution early in the auction.
The author discusses how to use cuebids, relays and pattern bids to reach the best contracts. The first title describes an aggressive two-way overcall structure that uses an artificial 1NT to show a light takeout. The second title discusses the author's complex system for showing a wide range of hands over the opponent's 1NT opener. A technical analysis of innovative ideas in card play for declarers and defenders.
The author also discusses common mistakes and how to mentally prepare for competition. Bidding Topics By Eric Rodwell. An in-depth discussion of agreements that can improve constructive and competitive bidding.
The nine chapters each start with the basics and progress to expert agreements. Included are full details on two conventions invented by the author -- Support Doubles and Serious 3NT. This "workout for the mind" is an extremely challenging collection of of the author's favorite hands from the magazine's popular column. Test your Play as Declarer Vol. Two internationalists teach you how to analyze and play out a wide range of difficult hands.
Updated and reprinted in The author puts you at the table with Meckstroth-Rodwell, Martel-Stansby, Garozzo-Belladonna and many more of the world's top pairs. The chapters feature lots of hands and analysis, with detailed personal insights into the players' successes and disasters.
A thorough overview of when and how to calculate odds and percentages at the table, with an interesting focus on situations where you should instead rely on imagination, deduction and inference.
An entertaining collection of deals where queens are featured in bidding, play and defense problems. Partnership Defense By Kit Woolsey. The author provides a good overview of basic signaling strategies, but adds an expert spin with excellent discussions of more sophisticated methods. They include masking the defenders' communication, deceptive signaling and new ideas for suit-preference signals.
This is an interesting and sophisticated discussion of communication at the bridge table. Woolsey offers valuable insights about how to make better use of the limited vocabulary of bridge bidding and improve the messages we send with bids and the play of the cards.
He includes numerous example hands and clear, logical analysis. Back to top By Mike Lawrence Lawrence, one of the most popular authors today, has a unique, "table-side" writing style that appeals to almost every reader. Most of these titles are aimed at intermediates, but all contain material that can benefit players of any skill or experience level.
Every title here is a Play Bridge with Mike Lawrence -- Perhaps my all-time favorite bridge book, this hand-by-hand account of a tournament session shows you how an expert thinks and how to develop that elusive quality called "table feel".
Play a Swiss Teams with Mike Lawrence -- Good tips and insights into the thinking processes, strategies and techniques the author uses in a team-of-four event. Judgment at Bridge -- Subtitled "What Went Wrong", this is an easy-to-understand discussion of many neglected areas of bidding and defense, with good recommendations on how to avoid common mistakes.
Judgment at Bridge 2: Be a Better Player and More Difficult Opponent -- The original Judgment at Bridge , now a classic, is the basis for this page volume, which includes new material that deals with modern bidding. Lawrence also offers opinions on conventions you should consider adding and those that should be removed from your system. It's all written in the straightforward, conversational style that has made Lawrence one of the most popular of all bridge authors.
The first in a series of books designed to turn aspiring players into good players. This book's mini-lessons feature situations and problems that haven't been covered in other books.
Even experienced players will find valuable advice here. Mike Lawrence's Opening Leads -- An outstanding and quite complex discussion of how to analyze the auction, evaluate alternatives and choose the best suit and card for your opening lead.
Copies are available from the author's web site. How to Read Your Opponents' Cards -- A classic with valuable tips for all bridge players and interesting insights into how experts read subtle clues and signals at the table. Complete Book on Hand Evaluation -- One of the best books ever written on this subject, with good advice on everything from basic counting to expert-level inferences.
The Complete Book on Overcalls in Contract Bridge updated edition -- A classic must-read for anyone who wants to improve competitive bidding.
The Complete Book on Balancing updated edition -- Comprehensive advice on how and when to keep the bidding open, including details on helpful conventions and expert treatments. The Complete Guide to Passed Hand Bidding edition -- Originally published in , this book focuses on how to evaluate your hand, make competitive decisions and use conventions to improve your passed-hand auctions. Also available in a recently updated Kindle version. Complete Guide to Contested Auctions -- An interesting, easy-to-follow explanation of the judgment and weapons you need to win in competitive auctions.
The Complete Book on Takeout Doubles updated edition -- This may sound like a topic for beginners, but even the most experienced players will find valuable ideas here. Lawrence covers all the tools and evaluation skills you need to improve your takeout-double auctions, with many expert tips. An update of the Bridge Book of the Year. New Meanings for an Old Bid -- Expert-level agreements and gadgets that will improve your competitive bidding.
Dynamic Defense -- A look at how experts think when defending a hand, with advice that even beginners can use successfully. Falsecards -- A thorough examination of the many ways you can legally mislead your opponents with falsecards as a defender or declarer.
This is a revised and updated version of the definitive work on this topic. Very interesting reading for advanced players. Bidding Quizzes I: The Uncontested Auction -- Many examples and quizzes to teach you how to improve the accuracy of your constructive bidding.
How to Play Card Combinations -- Teaches you how to play the odds, spot problems and take more tricks as declarer or defender. Partnership Understandings -- A workbook for use in partnership discussions, with questions and answers on all key aspects of your bidding system. Workbook on the Two-Over-One System -- A great practice book for pairs who want to refine their methods with this popular bidding system.
Bridge Tips Series: Bidding Competitive Bidding Cardplay -- Revised, updated compilations of the author's previously published pamphlets on bidding and card play.
Humorous stories featuring the adventures of Dorothy, the Tin Man and other characters at the fictional Over the Rainbow bridge club in Oz. Accompanying the bridge hands and stories are many illustrations by Bill Buttle. A unique, behind-the-scenes account of the authors' experiences in the World Senior Team Championships in Bali. Bridge novels featuring murder, cheating and other crimes, set at a duplicate club in a small town in rural Ontario. An entertaining personal account of the German team's comeback in the Venice Cup.
Focusing on the final 16 deals, the author describes the hands in detail and offers an instructional discussion of bidding and carding methods, conventions and how to develop team chemistry. Vulnerable in Hearts By Sandy Balfour. Part history and part instruction, these books feature spectacular feats and blunders of top players from around the world.
The deals are presented as quizzes so you can test your skill against the experts. Funny and heartbreaking stories of bad luck and disasters at the bridge table, with a good discussion of how to avoid the calamities suffered by others.
The celebrated series about the bridge-playing monks of St. The stories are highly entertaining, with many well-chosen and instructive hands. Considered by many to be Bird's best series. More titles from this prolific author, who combines bridge and humor. All feature eccentric characters who find themselves playing challenging and fascinating bridge hands in unusual settings.
A collection of deals featuring masterful and sometimes very unusual lines of play, with explanations of expert reasoning. Entertaining stories about the author's experiences as an expert bridge player. The tales feature colorful characters, bridge-playing celebrities and interesting playing venues -- from high-level tournaments and cruises to seedy money clubs and prisons. A volume of one-panel cartoons that lampoon bridge, bridge players and golfers. Sleeping on the Couch By Dave Caprera.
Dave and his wife are bridge partners who often disagree about the best bid or play on a deal. The author offers detailed analyses of the different solutions, but, as the title suggests, usually loses the arguments. Bridge Crosswords By Jeff Chen. Bridge players who enjoy crosswords can combine their favorite pastimes with this volume of 52 bridge-themed puzzles. The puzzles, which range from easy to challenging, feature clever clues and entertaining themes.
A bridge novel set at a Miami bridge club, with egocentric pros and eccentric clients as the main characters. Fifty-two bridge hands that are amusing, instructional and sometimes spectacular. Cook and Deal By Dorothy Cook. A unique gift that's a combination of a cookbook the recipes are great and a selection of interesting and challenging bridge hands. Death in Duplicate By Carole Coplea. A mysterious illness strikes the members of the faculty duplicate club at a small college. The local detective suspects murder, and all the players are suspects.
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