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 | 100 Bridge Tips for Club Players by Rakesh K. Kumar List Price: 210 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. This book offers club players a variety of suggestions to help them improve their results in both duplicate pairs and IMP events. The 100 tips cover aspects of play, bidding--both the uncontested and the contested auction--and defense. The focus is always on practical approaches, including sensible application of basic principles, good partnership agreements for constructive and obstructive biddi . . . read more. |
 | 2/1 On Steroids by Daniel Solow List Price: 154 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. Modern bidding systems have evolved over the past hundred years, starting with four-card majors and culminating in 2/1, together with a plethora of conventions along the way (Stayman, transfers, Roman Key Card, to name a few). Yet you can still encounter the occasional deficiency--such as an ambiguous bid or ending up in the wrong contract. When this happened to Daniel Solow, he wondered if it wa . . . read more. |
 | 25 Bridge Conventions You Should Know 2nd Edition - Revised and Updated by Barbara Seagram • Marc Smith List Price: 192 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. 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 Bridge Myths Exposed by David Bird List Price: 200 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. 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. |
 | 25 Conventions for ACOL Players by Sandra Landy • Mark Horton • Barbara Seagram List Price: 216 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. 25 Bridge Conventions You Should Know (Seagram & Smith 1996), has sold over 60,000 copies in four different languages - which makes it the best-selling bridge book of the last 50 years. This book uses the same user-friendly approach and features to explain the most important bidding conventions for players who use the ACOL system - which means essentially everyone in the UK. . . . read more. |
 | 25 Ways to Compete in the Bidding by Barbara Seagram • Marc Smith List Price: 224 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. 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. |
 | 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. |
 | 52 Bridge Mistakes To Avoid by David Bird List Price: 220 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. Why are the world's top players so successful? They make very few basic mistakes! Players at a less exalted level often make the same mistakes over and over again throughout their bridge careers. In this book you will see 52 of the most frequent mistakes--in bidding, play and defense. The chapter on each mistake will contain several deals where the original player went wrong. It will end with som . . . read more. |
 | A Bridge To Inspired Declarer Play by Julian Laderman List Price: 176 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. Recognize what technique to use on each particular deal. This book addresses the thought processes that novice declarers must develop and practice. What features of a bridge hand lead an expert to select the correct line of play from all those available? The carefully chosen examples in this book will help advancing players to recognize those features and take action accordingly. . . . read more. |
 | A Bridge to Simple Squeezes by Julian Laderman List Price: 152 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. Most bridge players find squeeze play the hardest technique to learn. It has unavoidable technical aspects that for many make it impenetrable. In this award-winning book, the reader is taken slowly and carefully through the basics, and by the end will be confident that they too can execute simple squeezes at the table. This second edition reflects many enhancements and improvements made to the or . . . read more. |
 | A Compendium of Double Dummy Problems by Hugh Darwen List Price: 336 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. Almost 1000 double dummy problems, ranging from 'very easy' to 'fiendishly difficult', collected by the acknowledged expert in the field. Double dummy problems are to bridge players what chess problems are to lovers of that game: exercises in ingenuity, unexpected maneuvers, art and beauty. Some of the problems in this book were created before bridge -- they come from its precursor, whist, but th . . . read more. |
 | A Complete System for the Tournament Bridge Player by Tugrul Kaban List Price: 233 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. This book is designed as a ready-made complete system for the tournament player. The system framework is 2/1, which is laid bare in the first part of the book. Then comes the author's choice of conventions and methods to cover all practical aspects of bidding and carding, taking each part of the convention card in turn. Some of the conventions suggested are outside the mainstream such as Muiderbe . . . read more. |
 | A First Book Of Bridge Problems by Patrick O'Connor List Price: 119 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. Comprises fifty problems in declarer play and defense for the beginning player, presented in approximate order of difficulty, with emphasis on planning the play at the first trick. The hands are presented to the reader as they would encounter them playing at the table. Unlike in a textbook, where topics are introduced systematically, there is no clue as to what type of play is required. Experienc . . . read more. |
 | A Great Deal Of Bridge Problems by Julian Pottage List Price: 293 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. This popular book contains 177 bridge problems, each one fresher than the last. Julian Pottage has developed a well-earned reputation as a great problem constructor. His answers are sharp, to the point, and usually make you say, "of course." "...a delight to work through." and "...a top shelf, value-for-money bridge book."--Tim Bourke . . . read more. |
 | A Modern Approach to Two-Over-One by Ken Eichenbaum List Price: 117 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. For those of you who wish to expand your horizons, this book may be the answer you have been looking for. A Modern Approach to Two-Over-One was written for the player who already uses a basic two-over-one approach, but is looking for more comprehensive methods to "glue" his system together. Special modern treatments and conventions are introduced to help cover the outer edges of the bell curve, a . . . read more. |
 | A Second Book of Bridge Problems by Patrick O'Connor List Price: 128 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. Like the author's first book (A First Book of Bridge Problems, named Book of the Year for 2011 by the American Bridge Teachers Association), this sequel comprises fifty problems in declarer play and defense for the beginning or near-beginning player, presented in approximate order of difficulty. The problems are slightly more advanced than those in the first book. Experienced players recognize ce . . . read more. |
 | A Simpler Blue Club System Mississauga Style by Dan Berkley List Price: 264 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. Keep it Simple. Strong club bidding systems dominated the world of bridge until a few decades ago. The reason? The system thinks for you, the experts say. The experts are right: if you stick to the rules, the system leads you effortlessly to the right decision. The drawback? It is complicated. This book presents a simplified and modernized version of one of the most successful bidding systems of . . . read more. |
 | A Swiss Teams Challenge by Rakesh K. Kumar List Price: 214 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. In this book, you are in the hot seat for a two-day Swiss Teams tournament, consisting of 8 rounds of 7 board matches each day. Your first goal is to finish in the top half of the field at the end of day one, so that you qualify to the final on day two. After that, you don't have unrealistic ambitions, but would really like to play well enough to achieve a top ten finish. Can you manage that? Of . . . read more. |
 | A Treasury Of Bidding Tips 554 Tips To Improve Your Partner's Game by Eddie Kantar List Price: 199 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. 554 tips on bidding, an updated version of one of Kantar's most popular books for intermediate players. Twenty years ago, Kantar set about distilling his bridge wisdom into a trilogy of books for the intermediate player, one each on Bidding, Play and Defense. Each consisted of several hundred short Tips, and the author believes that any reader who absorbs even a fraction of them will improve his . . . read more. |
 | Active or Passive A Guide to Being a Better Defender by Dr. James Marsh Sternberg List Price: 142 pages. Paperback. Innumerable books have been written on declarer play. Far less attention has been paid by bridge writers to defense, which is the weakest part of most players' game. This book presents a series of problems in defensive play, the central theme being active versus passive defense. This problem may start with the opening lead, arise at Trick Two, or be a decision later during the play of the hand . . . 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. |
 | Arrow Through the Heart by David Bird List Price: 200 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. David Bird's third book of Robin Hood bridge stories provides a feast of entertainment for his fans. The 27 stories contain 113 splendid deals and provide the laugh-aloud humor and painless instruction for which the author is renowned. The cast list features Robin Hood, Maid Marian and the Outlaws - also their arch-enemies, the Sheriff of Nottingham and his hapless side-kick, Sir Guy of Gisborne . . . read more. |
 | Avoidance Play (TYBT) Test Your Bridge Technique Series by David Bird • Tim Bourke List Price: 104 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. 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. |
 | Bachelor Bridge by David Bird • Simon Cocheme List Price: 152 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. Originally published in 1994, this book of humorous bridge stories met with widespread acclaim as one of the funniest to be published in a long time. Now updated and with new material added, the book chronicles the amorous (mis)adventures of Jack O'Hearts, which somehow always seem to involve interesting and amusing bridge hands. . . . read more. |
 | Back Through The Pack by Julian Pottage List Price: 266 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. One of today's most popular and successful bridge authors offers a sequel to one of the most popular and successful bridge books of all time. All fifty-two members of the pack have stories to tell and deuces and treys are attended to with the same respect accorded aces and kings. The cards are a bit more worldly than they were, but just as sentimental. Suspend your disbelief and travel to a timel . . . read more. |
 | Battling the Best My Journey Through the 2014 Reisinger by Sartaj Hans List Price: 209 pages. Paperback. More than just a book of great hands (there are, of course, lots of great hands), this book features Sartaj's distinctive take on high-level bridge: the ups and downs of playing in the ACBL's toughest event, the psychology of great performance at bridge. Many hands are the type not featured in books--the in-the-trenches battles for overtricks in mundane partscore contracts that are the heart and . . . read more. |
 | Be a Difficult Bridge Opponent by David Bird • Marc Smith List Price: 230 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. Many players you face are competent enough, but fairly easy to play against. Just a few will be in a altogether different category. Not only do they bid and play accurately, they constantly find a way to make your life difficult. They take away your bidding space by preempting on hands where other players tend to pass. Their switches in defense often create a problem for you. They are . . . diffi . . . read more. |
 | Be A Difficult Matchpoint Opponent by David Bird • Marc Smith List Price: 248 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. It Pays to be Difficult. Whether you play at a club or primarily online, most of your bridge will be at matchpoints. Those who do not vary their strategy to this form of scoring may do well enough, but they will never excel. This book contains over 200 deals, mostly from world championship matchpoint play. You will learn from giants of the game how to finish at the top of the field. The deals are . . . read more. |
 | Becoming A Bridge Expert by Frank Stewart List Price: 300 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. A compendium of advice for the improving player from one of North America's best-known bridge teachers and writers. Each tip is bite-sized - 3-4 pages in length - so the reader can dip in briefly and still take away an important idea. As well as the usual sections on bidding, play and defense, the author includes much advice on the psychological aspects of the game, including how to be a good par . . . read more. |
 | Better Signalling Now by Mark Horton List Price: 128 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. Good defensive carding agreements can improve the scores of any partnership in any session they play. This text takes readers through the modern options in terms of defensive signalling, and allows them to construct a system that suits their own style. Based on a previous book by the same author, this revised edition incorporates numerous suggestions and improvements from experts Tim Bourke and S . . . read more. |
 | Bid More, Play More, Enjoy More, Win More Expanded Ed. by Matthew Thomson List Price: 268 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. Expand your Bridge Horizons: Adoption of the bridge advice and strategies presented in this book into your game will result in you bidding more, declaring more, winning more, and enjoying your bridge more. The author's advice is to always evaluate your hand, and to show your "shape before strength". Better contracts and better bridge will be your reward. The book is best employed as a constant co . . . read more. |
 | Bidding Basics (YNM) A Logical Approach To Bridge Yes, No or Maybe by David Glandorf List Price: 267 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. Are you tired of learning/teaching bridge from a cookbook? Tired of memorizing how many points you need to bid this or that? Do you have trouble determining if you have a minimum, medium or maximum hand and what you are supposed to do if it fits in a particular category? Then Yes, No or Maybe is what you need--a series of three textbooks and companion workbooks for beginning bridge students. Bidd . . . read more. |
 | Bidding Basics Workbook (YNM) A Logical Approach To Bridge Yes, No or Maybe by David Glandorf List Price: 95 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. Are you tired of learning/teaching bridge from a cookbook? Tired of memorizing how many points you need to bid this or that? Do you have trouble determining if you have a minimum, medium or maximum hand and what you are supposed to do if it fits in a particular category? Then Yes, No or Maybe is what you need--a series of three textbooks and companion workbooks for beginning bridge students. This . . . read more. |
 | Blocking and Unblocking Don't Paint Yourself Into A Corner by Dr. James Marsh Sternberg List Price: 166 pages. Paperback. In this book, we will see a variety of examples of how to unblock your suits and how to block theirs. Mastering these will lessen your frustrations. The plays are easy, it's the anticipation in sufficient time that is a good deal more tricky. I'm sure you will recognize some of these situations from your own times at the tables where you may have found yourself blocked. There is some overlap; som . . . read more. |
 | Breaking The Bridge Rules First Hand Play by Barry Rigal List Price: 176 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. Rules are made to be broken, and bridge is no exception. The first of a planned four-book series on cardplay, this book deals with situations where the player who is on lead - defender or declarer, at the start of the deal or in the middle - needs to do something that involves ostensibly 'breaking the rules'. Not, obviously, the rules of bridge itself, but the well-tried adages that every player . . . read more. |
 | Bridge and the Romantics by Nick Smith List Price: 250 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. It is June 1822. Percy Shelley is planning a new bridge book. It will feature the most dazzling, difficult deals ever published, the bridge of the gods... But before he leaves on his ill-fated trip to Livorno, Shelley only has time to send his publisher a short 'Declarer Play Problems' pamphlet. Nick Smith, however, has unearthed a series of hitherto unchronicled episodes in the poet's life, whic . . . read more. |
 | Bridge and the Victorians by Nick Smith List Price: 203 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. The greatest bridge match ever played? Great Britain has given the world many great games--football, cricket, tennis, golf, shove ha'penny, etc.--and the world has repaid them by playing them better than the Britons and winning all the shiny baubles ever since. The same is true with bridge but there was a time, in the mid-nineteenth century, when English bridge players, especially women, were the . . . read more. |
 | Bridge At The Breakfast Table by Paul Thurston List Price: 160 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. Former Canadian champion Paul Thurston writes a daily bridge column in the National Post, one of Canada's two national newspapers. This is a collection of some of his best and most interesting articles--tips, oddities, and just plain interesting deals and stories. The perfect book for those long summer evenings at the cottage! . . . read more. |
 | Bridge At The Cranmer Club by Adam Parrish List Price: 134 pages. Paperback. Adam Parrish's entertaining and educational book tells the story of a night at the local bridge club. Up-and-comer Aaron is playing with Tony, one of the top players in the club. The colorful characters who come to their table each round are perhaps even more interesting than the hands they play. . . . read more. |
 | Bridge At The Edge by Boye Brogeland • David Bird List Price: 245 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. An in-depth, over-the-shoulder look at top-level bridge. While describing almost 200 deals that he played in World and European Championships, one of the world's best players, Boye Brogeland, discusses bidding and cardplay, as well as his approach to the mental side of the game. This is a fascinating glimpse into the thought processes of a champion bridge player, as well as a look at state-of-the . . . read more. |
 | Bridge At The Enigma Club by Peter Winkler List Price: 184 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. Robert Tischman is just looking for a game of bridge, but when a mysterious woman persuades him to partner her in a two-session event at the Engima Club, he gets much more than that. This is a book that can be enjoyed on several levels: 1) as a fun read with lots of great bridge deals; 2) as a glimpse of what the game might be like if technology were applied to it with more imagination; 3) as an . . . read more. |
 | Bridge Behind Bars by Julian Pottage • Marc Smith List Price: 208 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. "There was a loud metallic thud as the outside door closed behind Timothy Newman. So this is my new home then, he thought. Prison. Clink. The slammer. Prison is no place for an ordinary, law-abiding, middle-class guy like me, he reflected. Not even Great Yarborough Prison." But it turns out that prison life in Great Yarborough has a silver lining for Tim -- bridge. An expert player, he finds that . . . read more. |
 | Bridge Bidding Tips by Fred Parker List Price: 131 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. Bridge Bidding Tips is a great addition to the knowledge base for intermediate duplicate bridge players. Players are often in doubt about borderline cases; the tips in this book will address these concerns and improve your bidding. There are many nuances to bidding difficult hands. You have to know when to bid, when to pass, when to be aggressive and when to sit back and let the opponents win the . . . read more. |
 | Bridge Conventions in Depth by Matthew Granovetter • Pamela Granovetter List Price: 290 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. 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. |
 | Bridge Crosswords - Book 1 by Jeff Chen List Price: 74 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. Now bridge players who enjoy crosswords can combine their favorite pastimes! For this book, New York Times and Los Angeles Times crossword constructor Jeff Chen has designed 52 brand-new crosswords with bridge-themed clues and solutions, providing hours of challenge and fun. The puzzles in this book range from Easy (NY Times Monday level) to Challenging (NY Times Thursday level). Jeff Chen's cro . . . read more. |
 | Bridge Crosswords - Book 2 by Jeff Chen List Price: 146 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. Jeff Chen's first book of bridge-themed crosswords, Bridge Crosswords, was widely acclaimed, and his many fans will welcome a second collection. They know what to expect! As before, the difficulty level of the puzzles in this book ranges from Easy (New York Times Monday level) to Challenging (New York Times Thursday/Friday level). . . . read more. |
 | Bridge Endplays For Everyone by David Bird List Price: 271 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. This straightforward book makes endplays understandable. The endplay is an aspect of declarer play at bridge that many players think is beyond them. Yet while endplays can be extremely complex, the basic principles are not. Five years ago, David Bird wrote Bridge Squeezes for Everyone, a book about an even more complex topic that has become a modern classic. Using the same straightforward, conver . . . read more. |
 | Bridge Entry Techniques by David Bird List Price: 214 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. The Essence of Bridge Planning. This book is packed with techniques and tips on the subject of entry management, both for declarer and the defenders. A clear understanding of this topic is vital when the dummy goes down and you stop to plan your campaign. Part I contains 69 instructive deals on entries from declarer's point of view. The featured topics include: creating entries, destroying entrie . . . read more. |
 | Bridge In 3 Weeks by Alan Truscott List Price: 224 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. A comprehensive, 3-week, day-by-day bridge course for the beginner by the bridge editor of The New York Times. . . . read more. |
 | Bridge Literature by Nick Smith List Price: 179 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. First published in 1993, and long out of print, Nick Smith's Bridge Literature is an anthology of literary parodies that for the most part appeared first in magazines such as English Bridge and International Popular Bridge Monthly. Characters from Shakespeare, Marlowe, the Bible, Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, Charlotte Bronte, Thomas Hardy, Lewis Carroll and George Orwell all make their appearanc . . . read more. |
 | Bridge Master vs. Bridge Amateur by Mark Horton List Price: 184 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. What makes a bridge expert, and why does he always come out on top compared to the average club player? No, it's not the ability to execute esoteric squeezes and endplays - they simply don't come up enough to account for the way the experts consistently win against weaker opposition. This book is a collection of deals that illustrate the difference between the expert player and the would-be exper . . . read more. |
 | Bridge Outside the Box with Val Kovachev by Dennis Dawson • Charlie Wilkins List Price: 196 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. Val's bids are sometimes outrageous, but he always bases them on logic. He believes in following his logic wherever it may lead, not in following a bunch of 'rules.' Val takes more risks than most players. His goal is to push opponents out of their comfort zones and help his partner find the best lead, even if at some risk. He makes as few bids as possible to reach the final contract, never descr . . . read more. |
 | Bridge Problems for a New Millennium by Julian Pottage List Price: 160 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. In this quiz book, British author Julian Pottage has compiled a set of challenges that will test the reader's ability both as declarer and on defense. The hands are organized by theme, so readers are able to concentrate on a particular aspect of card-play if they wish. . . . read more. |
 | Bridge Squeezes Complete: Winning Endplay Strategy 2nd Edition by Clyde E. Love List Price: 364 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. This book was first published in 1959, and quickly became one of the classics of the game. Generations of bridge players have learned the fundamentals of squeeze play from Love. The original version has been out of print for some time, however, and it is now being republished in its first revision in 50 years. In its new modernized form, the concepts and terminology are much more accessible, and . . . read more. |
 | Bridge Squeezes for Everyone by David Bird List Price: 221 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. Did you always think squeezes were too difficult? Or perhaps you know the basics but now you want to learn about more complex and advanced squeeze positions? If you fit either of these categories, or even if you just want to improve your understanding of an important aspect of declarer play, this book is for you. . . . read more. |
 | Bridge with a Twist by Simon Cocheme List Price: 191 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. A witty and informative look at the world of bridge--its language, its history, and some of its techniques. Are pigeons more intelligent than some bridge players? What do a wooden man, a grandfather, a daydreamer and a donkey have in common? Did Zia really go nine down in 3NT? . . . read more. |
 | Bridge Without A Partner by Ken Eichenbaum List Price: 128 pages. Also available as an E-book. In this bridge novel, Friday, a bridge professional, inherits Zelda, an enigmatic student, from another professional. Although warned about her lack of ability, he nonetheless chooses to accept the challenge of helping her to become a life master. Marvel at Zelda's inventiveness, follow her development at Friday's guiding hand, but most of all, enjoy their wacky adventures. This is a treat you ca . . . read more. |
 | Bridge, Zia... And Me by Michael Rosenberg List Price: 192 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. One of the world's top bridge players chronicles his career from his early days growing up in the UK to his position today as one of the world's best. Rosenberg and the flamboyant Zia Mahmood, who also now lives in the US, are one of the world's best partnerships. Here we learn how they first met and started playing together. There are fascinating and funny anecdotes from Rosenberg's own career, . . . read more. |
 | Bridge: The Cutting Edge Applications of Information Science, Game Theory & Computers to Bridge by Dave Caprera List Price: 116 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. The game of bridge has been at close to a standstill for at least 50 years while the world of language, computers and mathematics has experienced so many changes. The bridge techniques and methods your grandmother taught you are probably still the same techniques and methods you use today. The way that bridge problems are approached and analyzed is the same basic use of language, probability and . . . read more. |
 | Bridge's First Hippie Book 1 The First 40 Years by Peter Weichsel List Price: 240 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. Fascinating autobiography of the controversial three-times world bridge champion who brought the sensibility and dress sense of 1960s San Francisco to the staid bridge scene. Peter Weichsel has won three world bridge championships, twenty-five North American titles and became a member of the Bridge Hall of Fame in 2004. He has been part of great teams (C.C. Wei's Precision Team in the 1970s, and . . . read more. |
 | Bridge's First Hippie Book 2 1983 to Present by Peter Weichsel List Price: 242 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. Peter Weichsel has won five world bridge championships, including two coveted Bermuda Bowls, and twenty-seven North American titles. He became a member of the Bridge Hall of Fame in 2004. He has been part of great teams (C.C. Wei's Precision Team in the 1970s, and the Aces later on), and has won everything it is possible to win in the game. But that's just his bridge career. This fascinating auto . . . read more. |
 | Bridging Two Worlds by Martin Hoffman List Price: 278 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. This is a rare account of the horrors of the WW2 death camps from someone who experienced them. Born into an Orthodox Jewish family in Prague, Hoffman lost his entire family in the Holocaust. Fourteen-year-old Martin Hoffman escapes immediate death on arrival at Auschwitz by claiming to be eighteen. Through a combination of chutzpah and luck, he first survives a year at Auschwitz, then the Death . . . read more. |
 | Building a Bidding System by Roy Hughes List Price: 176 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. 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. |
 | Can You Win the USBC Team Trials 2013? by Matthias Felmy List Price: 290 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. In quiz format, this book presents bidding, declarer play and defensive problems taken from the deals that occurred during the final of the 2013 USBC Team Trials. Compare your solutions to the plays and bids actually made, and see how you would have scored if you had been playing. In-depth analysis of each deal is given. The analyses include discussion of several advanced topics such as countin . . . read more. |
 | Card By Card Adventures at the Bridge Table by Roy Hughes List Price: 192 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. This book gives the reader a chance to watch an expert play a number of hands, either as declarer or defender. Most of the hands come from the author's own experience of top-level play. As usual in this type of presentation, the reader is offered the opportunity to make his own decisions at critical points in the play, and will be able to learn from situations where an expert took a different lin . . . read more. |
 | Challenge Your Declarer Play by Danny Roth List Price: 128 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. In this quiz book, the well-known author, Danny Roth, has compiled a set of challenges that will test readers' ability as a declarer, and at the same time, introduce some stratagems that may be unfamiliar. The hands are tougher than those in Focus on Declarer Play, and they are not presented in the same teaching mode, rather, they are in a random order as one might encounter them at the bridge ta . . . read more. |
 | Classic Kantar by Eddie Kantar List Price: 192 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. Eddie Kantar is not only one of today's best bridge writers, he's also one of the funniest. His two previous collections, Bridge Humor and The Best of Eddie Kantar, have been out of print for some years, and are still much sought after. For Classic Kantar, Eddie has selected the very best stories from the two previous books, and has added many new ones. As always, he pokes fun at the top experts, . . . read more. |
 | Clever Plays In The Trump Suit by David Bird List Price: 206 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. An intermediate-level discussion of declarer play, this book focuses on the power of the trump suit. Its subjects include trump timing--should you draw all the defenders' trumps straight away, some of their trumps, or perhaps perform some other vital task first? -- and situations where you need to unblock in the trump suit or to put a defender on lead with a trump. The reader will learn how to ma . . . read more. |
 | Clues from the Bidding at Bridge by Julian Pottage List Price: 160 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. Defenders invariably base their strategy on declarer's bidding. Yet so often declarers fail to return the compliment: they flail away without a thought of what the defenders have or have not done. Just one bid from an opponent may tip off declarer to the winning play - perhaps warning of a bad break or that a finesse is doomed. When the defenders have made several bids the declarer may be able to . . . read more. |
 | Combining Your Chances Better Declarer Play - Book 1 by Danny Roth List Price: 220 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. The first book in Danny Roth's new intermediate-level series on declarer play, this book covers topics that, once mastered, will bring any intermediate player an immediate improvement in their scores. Topics include: to finesse or play for the drop (why not both?), loser-on-loser plays, entries, disposing of losers, and much more. The overall theme is: 'Don't put all your eggs in one basket--inst . . . read more. |
 | Competitive Bidding Winning Bridge Conventions Series by Patty Tucker List Price: 208 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. Bridge students quickly discover that basic bidding will only get them so far. To improve it is necessary to master a certain number of bidding conventions, and be prepared both to play them and to play against them. Each of the books in this series covers a number of useful conventions, explaining them carefully along with numerous examples and quizzes to help the reader understand what is being . . . read more. |
 | Competitive Bidding in the 21st Century by Marshall Miles List Price: 240 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. 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 Doubles Winning Bridge Conventions Series by Patty Tucker List Price: 120 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. Bridge students quickly discover that basic bidding will only get them so far. To improve it is necessary to master a certain number of bidding conventions, and be prepared both to play them and to play against them. Each of the books in this series covers a number of useful conventions, explaining them carefully along with numerous examples and quizzes to help the reader understand what is being . . . read more. |
 | Confessions of a Bridge Addict by John Carruthers • Joey Silver List Price: 242 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. Life in the fast lane: Joey Silver and John Carruthers (JC) have been top Canadian bridge players for over fifty years. As a partnership and as friends, they go back twenty-five years, and have a silver medal in World Championship play to their credit, as well as numerous Canadian Championships. This book continues Joey's popular 'Confessions of a Bridge Addict' column, begun on Bridge Winners du . . . read more. |
 | Constructive Bidding 401 by Stephen Paul List Price: 204 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. A two-book series that provides advancing partnerships a complete and consistent framework in the form of a bidding system for competition in stratified tournaments at higher levels. The first book emphasizes the importance of working with your partner, covering hand evaluation, opening bids and responses. Concepts of teamwork from the business world are presented in a bridge context with a numbe . . . read more. |
 | Constructive Bidding 402 by Stephen Paul List Price: 200 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. A two-book series that provides advancing partnerships a complete and consistent framework in the form of a bidding system for competition in stratified tournaments at higher levels. The first book emphasizes the importance of working with your partner, covering hand evaluation, opening bids and responses. Concepts of teamwork from the business world are presented in a bridge context with a numbe . . . read more. |
 | Conventions After a Major Suit Opening Winning Bridge Conventions Series by Patty Tucker List Price: 152 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. Bridge students quickly discover that basic bidding will only get them so far. To improve it is necessary to master a certain number of bidding conventions, and be prepared both to play them and to play against them. Each of the books in this series covers a number of useful conventions, explaining them carefully along with numerous examples and quizzes to help the reader understand what is being . . . read more. |
 | Conventions After a Notrump Opening Winning Bridge Conventions Series by Patty Tucker List Price: 230 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. Bridge students quickly discover that basic bidding will only get them so far. To improve it is necessary to master a certain number of bidding conventions, and be prepared both to play them and to play against them. Each of the books in this series covers a number of useful conventions, explaining them carefully along with numerous examples and quizzes to help the reader understand what is being . . . read more. |
 | Conventions Today by Brian Senior List Price: 147 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. Learn the Latest and Greatest. The best and most popular conventions in every area of bidding explained. Whatever your preferred system of bidding, you and your partner will inevitably play a number of conventions. This book will not only help you to decide what to incorporate into your partnership's armory, but also help you to understand the many weapons that might be used against you at the ta . . . read more. |
 | Conventions Useful with 2/1 Winning Bridge Conventions Series by Patty Tucker List Price: 140 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. Bridge students quickly discover that basic bidding will only get them so far. To improve it is necessary to master a certain number of bidding conventions, and be prepared both to play them and to play against them. Each of the books in this series covers a number of useful conventions, explaining them carefully along with numerous examples and quizzes to help the reader understand what is being . . . read more. |
 | Conventions Useful with Strong Hands Winning Bridge Conventions Series by Patty Tucker List Price: 130 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. Bridge students quickly discover that basic bidding will only get them so far. To improve it is necessary to master a certain number of bidding conventions, and be prepared both to play them and to play against them. Each of the books in this series covers a number of useful conventions, explaining them carefully along with numerous examples and quizzes to help the reader understand what is being . . . read more. |
 | Countdown to Winning Bridge by Tim Bourke • Marc Smith List Price: 216 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. Did you ever notice how the bridge experts always seem to know where every card is? How their finesses always seem to succeed? How their guesses are nearly always perfect? This book won't teach you how to play quite that well, but it will introduce you to some very simple techniques that the experts use on play and defense. As declarer or defender, counting the hand is the one thing that will hel . . . read more. |
 | Crocs on Squeeze Play - Volume 1 by Stephen Kennedy List Price: 253 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. Do you like squeeze play? Do you like complicated endings? Do you like bridge? Then look no further: this is the book for you. From the mind of a junior bridge player comes a new book designed to challenge the norm: a book that starts where Clyde Love's classic leaves off, a book intended to push squeeze play to its absolute limits. Well-known squeezes are thoroughly examined and dissected, and a . . . read more. |
 | Crocs on Squeeze Play - Volume 2 by Stephen Kennedy List Price: 261 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. Do you like squeeze play? Do you like complicated endings? Do you like bridge? Then look no further: this is the book for you. From the mind of a junior bridge player comes a new book designed to challenge the norm: a book that starts where Clyde Love's classic leaves off, a book intended to push squeeze play to its absolute limits. Well-known squeezes are thoroughly examined and dissected, and a . . . read more. |
 | Cuebidding at Bridge A Modern Approach by Ken Rexford List Price: 200 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. 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. |
 | Deceptive Card Play (BT) Bridge Technique Series by David Bird • Marc Smith List Price: 64 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. 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. At this price, what bridge player could stand not to have al . . . read more. |
 | Deceptive Play (TYBT) Test Your Bridge Technique Series by David Bird • Tim Bourke List Price: 104 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. 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. |
 | Defend Or Declare 72 Deals To Test Your Bridge Skill by Julian Pottage List Price: 144 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. How good an analyst are you? In 2003, Julian Pottage's Play or Defend won the IBPA Book of the Year award. Using an usual bridge problem format, it gave readers all four hands and challenged them to decide whether they wanted to play or defend. Almost ten years later, this sequel comprises 72 new problems, presented in the same fashion, and asking the same question: defend or declare? These are n . . . read more. |
 | Defend These Hands with Me by Julian Pottage List Price: 192 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. Julian Pottage worked on a number of books with the late Terence Reese, and this one pays homage to a man who was certainly the best bridge writer of his time. One of Reese's classics, Play these hands with me, pioneered the 'over-the-shoulder' style of bridge writing. What that book did for declarer play, the present one will do for defense: the reader can follow the thinking of an expert player . . . read more. |
 | Defending Notrump Contracts (TYBT) Test Your Bridge Technique Series by David Bird • Tim Bourke List Price: 104 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. 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. |
 | Defending Suit Contracts (TYBT) Test Your Bridge Technique Series by David Bird • Tim Bourke List Price: 104 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. 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. |
 | Defense on the Other Hand Understanding Defensive Techniques by David Bird • Larry Cohen List Price: 213 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. A unique way to study defense. In their previous book together, On the Other Hand, David Bird and Larry Cohen presented cardplay instruction in a novel way. 100 pairs of deals were shown--one described by David and the other by Larry. The deals looked similar (in some cases very similar) but an entirely different line of play was necessary to make each of the contracts. The book was well received . . . read more. |
 | Defensive Carding & Opening Leads Winning Bridge Conventions Series by Patty Tucker List Price: 122 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. Bridge students quickly discover that basic bidding will only get them so far. To improve it is necessary to master a certain number of bidding conventions, and be prepared both to play them and to play against them. Each of the books in this series covers a number of useful conventions, explaining them carefully along with numerous examples and quizzes to help the reader understand what is being . . . read more. |
 | Defensive Signalling (BT) Bridge Technique Series by David Bird • Marc Smith List Price: 64 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. 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. |
 | Defensive Signalling at Bridge by David Bird List Price: 220 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. The author begins this thorough discussion of a neglected but vital topic by examining the real purpose of defensive signalling, and the basic kinds of signals that are available. He goes on to recommend a comprehensive set of signalling agreements, and analyzes more complex situations in the light of these agreements. Most of the chapters are followed by a quiz, the answers to which will demons . . . read more. |
 | Defensive Signals by Marshall Miles List Price: 216 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. Regarded as one of the best ever written on the topic of signaling, this book will help you defend better regardless of your experience or skill level. It explains several ways to describe your holding which are commonly used by experts but not generally known. It compares new methods with old, including the pros and cons of upside-down versus standard signaling. It explains how to draw inference . . . read more. |
 | Defensive Tips For Bad Card Holders 576 Tips To Improve Your Defensive Play At Bridge 2nd Ed. Revised by Eddie Kantar List Price: 270 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. Twenty years ago, Kantar set about distilling his bridge wisdom into a trilogy of books for the intermediate player, one each on Bidding, Play and Defense. Each consisted of several hundred short Tips, and the author believes that any reader who absorbs even a fraction of them will improve his or her game by at least 25%. The Tips in this book have been completely revised and updated by the a . . . read more. |
 | Discarding Losers (BC) Bridge Cardplay: An Easy Guide - 8 by David Bird • Marc Smith List Price: 52 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. Whether you are just setting out to discover the wonderful game of bridge, or have played for some time, your success will be limited without a sound understanding of the basic techniques of cardplay. In this series, two of the game's top writers explain clearly the various cardplay skills that you will need. Every booklet contains six chapters - each ending with a short Quiz. The topics covered . . . read more. |
 | Double Dummy Problems in the 21st Century Vol. 1 Problems from 2005 to 2022 (Difficulty Ratings 1-4) by Hugh Darwen List Price: 231 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. This is the first of two volumes forming a sequel to the author's A Compendium of Double Dummy Problems, containing 134 double dummy problems, ranging from 'very easy' to 'moderate' in difficulty. The collection is derived from the monthly series of problems that have been presented at the author?s website for competitive solving. It features as many as 24 different composers, several of whom mad . . . read more. |
 | Double Dummy Problems in the 21st Century Vol. 2 Problems from 2005 to 2022 (Difficulty Ratings 5-8) by Hugh Darwen List Price: 260 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. This is the second of two volumes forming a sequel to the author's A Compendium of Double Dummy Problems, containing 158 double dummy problems, ranging from 'difficult' to 'fiendish' in difficulty. The collection is derived from the monthly series of problems that have been presented at the author's website for competitive solving. It features as many as 24 different composers, several of whom ma . . . read more. |
 | Double, Double, Toil and Trouble by Alex Adamson • Harry Smith List Price: 248 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. Somewhere Over the Rainbow. The Land of Oz is full of characters, each unique and yet also familiar to bridge players everywhere. In this third installment, the Over the Rainbow Bridge Club is threatened by dark forces led by the Wicked Witch of the West. Can Dorothy and her friends come to the rescue? Following If I Only had a Heart and Bridge Over the Rainbow, this book completes the trilogy wi . . . read more. |
 | Drawing Trumps (BC) Bridge Cardplay: An Easy Guide - 10 by David Bird • Marc Smith List Price: 52 pages. Paperback. Whether you are just setting out to discover the wonderful game of bridge, or have played for some time, your success will be limited without a sound understanding of the basic techniques of cardplay. In this series, two of the game's top writers explain clearly the various cardplay skills that you will need. Every booklet contains six chapters - each ending with a short Quiz. The topics covered . . . read more. |
 | Duplicate Bridge 403 Defending Second Seat Interference by Stephen Paul List Price: 230 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. Improving your partnership's ability to overcome interference is essential for good results. Finding the right contract requires a clear understanding of the values represented by responder's bids after the opponents interfere. This book provides the reader with two sets of tools for this: (1) Hand valuation in competition using an algorithm developed by Lawrence and Wirgren. This method of hand . . . read more. |
 | Duplicate Bridge Schedules, History and Mathematics by Ian McKinnon List Price: 427 pages. Hardcover. Also available as an E-book. The Bridge Movements Encyclopedia. This is an essential book for tournament directors as well as bridge players curious about the history of the game of duplicate bridge. This comprehensive volume supplies you with all the movements ever thought of and many hundreds of new ones. Included for each movement are the variations, modifications, origins, authors and history of its development. Each mov . . . read more. |
 | Easier Done Than Said Brilliancy At The Bridge Table by Prakash K. Paranjape List Price: 160 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. We have all seen bridge experts make plays that are elegant and simple, yet brilliant - with an instinct and insight apparently out of the reach of the everyday player. But they don't have to be. Study the hands in this book, all of which are taken from actual club and tournament play, and you'll see how the logic of each situation leads to a play that is 'easier done than said'. Then apply these . . . read more. |
 | Eddie Kantar Teaches: Advanced Bridge Defense by Eddie Kantar List Price: 240 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. American Bridge Teachers Association Book of the Year Award Winner. Eddie Kantar's various beginner books have sold hundreds of thousands of copies in ten different languages, not least because of his unique style and the humor that he introduces into the learning process. Advanced Bridge Defense is intended to cover some of the more complex concepts of bridge defense for the modern advancing pla . . . read more. |
 | Eddie Kantar Teaches: Topics in Declarer Play at Bridge by Eddie Kantar List Price: 240 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. Kantar's two-book series on Bridge Defense ( Modern Bridge Defense and Advanced Bridge Defense) won an ABTA Book of the Year Award in 1999. This new book addresses a more popular topic, using a similar approach. While not a comprehensive treatment of declarer play at bridge, this book deals with specific topics exhaustively, and will be invaluable to the improving player: finesses (when and how t . . . read more. |
 | Elimination Plays (TYBT) Test Your Bridge Technique Series by David Bird • Tim Bourke List Price: 104 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. 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. |
 | Eliminations & Throw-ins (BT) Bridge Technique Series by David Bird • Marc Smith List Price: 64 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. 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. |
 | 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. |
 | Endplays & Coups (TYBT) Test Your Bridge Technique Series by David Bird • Tim Bourke List Price: 104 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. 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. |
 | Enhanced Precision Fourth Edition by Ron Beall List Price: 204 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. Enhanced Precision is a bidding system for the determined tournament player, designed to arrive at the best possible contract. It is an evolved system with many enhancements compared to standard systems, even standard precisions. The author notes: When I completed the third edition of Enhanced Precision, I believed (or at least hoped!) that it would be the final version. But many people made sugg . . . read more. |
 | Enterprising Bridge Tales: The Next Generation by Marc Smith List Price: 247 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. Bridge in the 24th Century. Decades after the adventures of Captain James T Quirk and the crew of the USS Competitor, we now follow the next generation of bridge crusaders as they traverse the universe. Led by Captain Jonathan Lucian Pillar III, the starship's latest incarnation is crewed by many familiar characters: an android Science Officer, an imposing Klingon as Chief of Security, and a youn . . . read more. |
 | Enterprising Bridge Tales: The Original Series by Marc Smith List Price: 261 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. Bridge in the 23rd century... They certainly play chess aboard Federation starships, so why should it come as a surprise to discover that bridge is also a popular pursuit? In these pages you can watch members of the crew playing as they warp through the galaxies. Follow the adventures of Captain Quirk and First Officer Sprock as their team competes against some of the best players in the universe . . . read more. |
 | Entries (BC) Bridge Cardplay: An Easy Guide - 10 by David Bird • Marc Smith List Price: 52 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. Whether you are just setting out to discover the wonderful game of bridge, or have played for some time, your success will be limited without a sound understanding of the basic techniques of cardplay. In this series, two of the game's top writers explain clearly the various cardplay skills that you will need. Every booklet contains six chapters - each ending with a short Quiz. The topics covered . . . read more. |
 | Entry Management (BT) Bridge Technique Series by David Bird • Marc Smith List Price: 64 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. 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. |
 | Entry Management (TYBT) Test Your Bridge Technique Series by David Bird • Tim Bourke List Price: 104 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. 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. |
 | Establishing Long Suits (BC) Bridge Cardplay: An Easy Guide - 10 by David Bird • Marc Smith List Price: 52 pages. Paperback. Whether you are just setting out to discover the wonderful game of bridge, or have played for some time, your success will be limited without a sound understanding of the basic techniques of cardplay. In this series, two of the game's top writers explain clearly the various cardplay skills that you will need. Every booklet contains six chapters - each ending with a short Quiz. The topics covered . . . read more. |
 | Expert Bridge Simplified Arithmetic Shortcuts For Declarer by Jeff Rubens List Price: 416 pages. Paperback. This book takes a lighthearted approach to tackling challenging problems, and demystifies bridge mathematics for the practical player. After mastering the basic techniques for declarer, bridge players improve by applying those procedures more effectively. The most common question among those who study declarer's craft is: "How do I calculate the odds?" Even highly experienced players sometimes st . . . read more. |
 | Famous Bridge Swings by David Bird List Price: 225 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. Learn from their Mistakes. After a hard-fought match or perhaps a weekend of matchpoint play, it is well worth the effort to look at all your bad boards and see if any lessons can be learned. In this book you will have the chance to learn from other players' mistakes. We will look at over 150 big swings from international play. The net swings will average over 18 IMPs per deal, with some of more . . . read more. |
 | Fantunes Revealed by Bill Jacobs List Price: 170 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. Not since the introduction of Precision has a new bidding system created such an immediate impact as Fantunes, the unique methods of Fulvio Fantoni and Claudio Nunes, the world's number one ranked pair. The Italians have several world championship wins to their name, and their system has played a major role in that success. This book delves into the system, explaining how it works and, just as im . . . read more. |
 | Finessing (BC) Bridge Cardplay: An Easy Guide - 10 by David Bird • Marc Smith List Price: 52 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. Whether you are just setting out to discover the wonderful game of bridge, or have played for some time, your success will be limited without a sound understanding of the basic techniques of cardplay. In this series, two of the game's top writers explain clearly the various cardplay skills that you will need. Every booklet contains six chapters - each ending with a short Quiz. The topics covered . . . read more. |
 | Five to Five Hundred by Tim Kohl • Bob Jiobu List Price: 232 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. This is a book for improving players who have graduated from the novice class and are embarking on the long journey to that coveted Life Master title - which now in North America requires winning 500 masterpoints. Written in a light, readable style, with liberal use of cartoons and aide-memoires, the book first addresses the mental approach necessary for bridge success--topics including how to . . . read more. |
 | Focus on Bidding by Danny Roth List Price: 160 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. 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. |
 | Focus on Declarer Play by Danny Roth List Price: 128 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. For most intermediate bridge players, declarer play is both fascinating and challenging, but too often they are left after a hand is over with the sinking feeling that they could have done better. In this book, acclaimed British author Danny Roth takes his readers through the most common causes of errors on play: mishandling communications, making errors involving trumps, failing to take advantag . . . read more. |
 | Focus on Defense by Danny Roth List Price: 128 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. For most bridge players, defence is the hardest part of the game. In this book, acclaimed British author Danny Roth takes his readers through the most common causes of errors on defence: taking tricks too early, not cashing out when necessary, not using all the information available from the bidding and play, not making the most of the defensive trump holdings, careless discarding, and many more. . . . read more. |
 | Following the Law by Larry Cohen List Price: 192 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. 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. |
 | For Love or Money The Life of a Bridge Journalist by Mark Horton • Brian Senior List Price: 192 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. Great hands and amusing anecdotes - a behind-the-scenes look at international bridge. Brian Senior and Mark Horton are experienced international players, and also two of the world's top bridge journalists. In one or the other capacity they have attended every World Championship and major international tournament in the last twenty years, and in this book they share their unique knowledge and expe . . . read more. |
 | Four-Suit Transfers (PYB) Practice Your Bidding Series by Barbara Seagram • Andy Stark List Price: 68 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. 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. |
 | Frank Stewart's Bridge Club by Frank Stewart List Price: 200 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. Frank Stewart's Bridge Club is no ordinary place. It is the regular haunt of a cast of somehow familiar players: Unlucky Louie, against whom no one ever makes a wrong bid or play; Grapefruit, a man with an unnaturally sour disposition; Cy the Cynic, who knows that the Fates will conspire against him whatever he does; Minnie Bottoms, who tends to mix up jacks and kings but always somehow finds the . . . read more. |
 | From Short Whist to Contract Bridge by Hans Secelle List Price: 303 pages. Hardcover. Also available as an E-book. In From Short Whist to Contract Bridge, the author takes the reader on a fascinating journey through space and time and introduces him to such games as KarnOffel, Whist, Hombre, Quadrille, Boston, Cayenne, Vist-Preferans, Russian Whist, Yeralash and Stormwhist. These old and mostly forgotten games will eventually lead to the assembly of a number of 'proto-bridge' variants, of which only Collinson . . . read more. |
 | From Zero to Three Hundred A Bridge Journey by Dr. James Marsh Sternberg List Price: 76 pages. Paperback. Three hundred. What's so special about the number 300? It's the magic number all serious bridge players seek, often unsuccessfully. It takes three hundred masterpoints of varying types to become a Life Master in the American Contract Bridge League (ACBL). When Dr. James Sternberg took up the game, he had never played, but thought it was a game that could be learned in a few weeks and would provid . . . read more. |
 | Further Adventures At The Bridge Table by Roy Hughes List Price: 172 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. Sparkling Card Play Awaits... This book takes the reader further along the path traversed by the acclaimed Card by Card. The author presents intriguing problems in declarer play and defense and follows them with comprehensive analysis, given with a light touch and the occasional entertaining diversion. "I think it is fair to say there will be something here for everyone interested in card play, f . . . read more. |
 | Gaining the Mental Edge at Bridge by Kim Frazer List Price: 182 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. The Inner Game of Bridge. Bridge players spend countless hours working on bidding conventions and cardplay techniques, yet give little attention to the mental side of the game. Maintaining focus and concentration, dealing with nerves, and other issues are largely ignored. In this book, Kim Frazer--an Olympian, winner of gold medals at three consecutive Commonwealth Games and an Australian interna . . . read more. |
 | Gamesman Bridge by Eddie Kantar List Price: 177 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. Nobody wants to lose at contract bridge. This book will show you how to win. Whether you're an advanced beginner, an intermediate or an advanced player, this valuable book can help you win more frequently and gain greater personal satisfaction from contract bridge. This is a book on the play of hands, full of wise counsel; it will entertain experts and help them teach others. -The best way to cou . . . read more. |
 | Gary Brown's Learn to Play Bridge A Modern Approach To Standard Bidding With 5-Card Majors by Gary Brown List Price: 120 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. Winner of the American Bridge Teachers' Association 2007 Book of the Year award in its original edition, this book has an entirely new approach to teaching the game. It is intended to be a short first course for people who have never played bridge before. No prior experience with any card game is necessary, and the ideas are developed in short, easy steps. . . . read more. |
 | Getting Into The Bidding by Bill Treble List Price: 224 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. In the modern game, the majority of auctions are competitive, and every improving player needs to acquire the tools to handle this kind of bidding. This text covers the basic building blocks of competitive bidding (takeout and negative doubles, preempts, overcalls, competing over their notrump openings and dealing with competition over your own, forcing pass auctions, the Law of Total Tricks, and . . . read more. |
 | Getting to Good Slams: 30 Key Ideas by Terry Bossomaier List Price: 199 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. Bidding Slams is Fun. Slams are one of the most exciting parts of bridge and, at club level, they occur much more often than they are bid. This book aims to help average and aspiring players to bid a few more of those slams. Unlike many other books on bidding, this book does not provide a system or set of gadgets. Instead, it looks at a number of tournament events and develops a set of thirty key . . . read more. |
 | Getting to Thin Games by Terry Bossomaier List Price: 215 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. Applying the same kind of computer analysis to real-life deals that he did in Getting to Good Slams, the author identifies the elements necessary to be successful in pushing for that game bonus, often with far fewer than the traditional number of points. Anyone who plays IMPs will tell you that this is the area where most matches are won and lost. . . . read more. |
 | Good, Better, Best by Jan Eric Larsson List Price: 190 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. Bridge players constantly argue about the 'best' bidding systems and conventions. Strong Club or Natural? With or without relays? Standard or 2/1? Weak or strong notrump? Was Blue Club really better than the natural systems in the 1950s and 1960s? Is Two-way Stayman as good as Stayman and transfers? Disciplined or undisciplined weak twos--which work better? And many, many more... Well, now we hav . . . read more. |
 | Guarantee Your Contract by Jean-Paul Meyer List Price: 231 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. If there is one thing that satisfies a bridge player, it is making their contract. If there is one that annoys them, it is going down in a contract that they could have made. This book presents a series of problems for which a 100% solution exists. In other words, if you play well, you cannot fail. Deals are of varying degrees of difficulty, identified by a system of stars, allowing readers, if t . . . read more. |
 | Hands On - Weak Two Bids by Joan Anderson List Price: 125 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. Weak two-bids are well ensconced in the bridge world and are now part of any beginning program of lessons. They are, however, in that class of "most abused" conventions. An understanding of all the important tools that are at your fingertips will serve you well in making these decisions at the table. This book will walk you through the solutions to the problems you meet every day in offensive and . . . read more. |
 | Helms to HELLO by Jerry Helms List Price: 48 pages. Booklet. Also available as an E-book. The answer to your prayers - a simple, effective convention for competing over the opponents' 1NT opening bid! Originally self-published in 1996, the first edition sold out quickly, so that this much sought-after treatise has been unavailable for several years. The book describes how the convention works, and how to use it against various ranges of 1NT opening bids, as well as over strong 1 Club . . . read more. |
 | Holding Up A Stopper (BC) Bridge Cardplay: An Easy Guide - 8 by David Bird • Marc Smith List Price: 52 pages. Paperback. Whether you are just setting out to discover the wonderful game of bridge, or have played for some time, your success will be limited without a sound understanding of the basic techniques of cardplay. In this series, two of the game's top writers explain clearly the various cardplay skills that you will need. Every booklet contains six chapters - each ending with a short Quiz. The topics covered . . . read more. |
 | How Good Is Your Bridge? by Danny Roth List Price: 200 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. 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 NOT To Play Bridge The Bridge Seminars of Professor Gaston Gitane-Gauloise by Mike Dorn Wiss List Price: 245 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. The inimitable Professor Gaston Gitane-Gauloise demonstrates his unique Inverted Bridge Teaching Method, showing you by example what not to do in Bridge, thereby allowing you to improve your game by avoiding the commonplace (and some not-so-commonplace) errors to which all are prone. In his humble and self-deprecating manner, the Professor wheezes his way into your bridge acumen, and improves it. . . . read more. |
 | How To Be A Lucky Player by Matthew Thomson List Price: 181 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. Are you a lucky player? It is no coincidence that the best players are lucky players. You can become a "better" player by improving your bidding system with your partner and by improving your play technique, however this will not make you a lucky player. How can you become a lucky player and winner? In this book, illustrated with hands from actual play, the author demonstrates ways to become a lu . . . read more. |
 | How to Play Bridge with your Spouse... and Survive! by Roselyn Tevkolsky List Price: 192 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. Even social bridge can be like a roller-coaster, where partners rocket up and down together from euphoria to 'you idiot' --while club and tournament bridge are worse still. Indeed, when a married couple play bridge together, they tend to drag the marriage along with them--for better or worse. For the answer to the social dilemma of how to survive bridge games with your spouse, read this book. You . . . read more. |
 | How to Remember Every Card in the Deck by Bob Hampton List Price: 81 pages. Paperback. Have you ever wondered how many hearts are left or what happened to the Jack of Spades? This book will teach you how to remember which cards have been played and in what order. Bob Hampton is one of the country's most successful memory teachers. He applied his memory techniques to his own card play with amazing results. If you play Bridge, Canasta, Gin Rummy, Spades, Blackjack or other card ga . . . 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. |
 | I Love This Game by Sabine Auken List Price: 240 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. Germany staged an improbable comeback in the final session of the 2001 Women's World Bridge Championship to score a narrow victory over France. In this book, world champion Sabine Auken tells the thrilling story of that gold medal win. She also uses the hands from that session as a starting point to talk about the game of bridge, and distills from them general principles and advice that will help . . . read more. |
 | Improve Your Bidding Judgment by Neil Kimelman List Price: 192 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. 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. |
 | Improve your Slam Bidding by Marc Smith List Price: 156 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. Whether you learned to play last year or half a century ago, successfully bidding and making a slam is still one of the most thrilling things that happens at the bridge table. Going down in bad slams is even more expensive than missing a good slam. By the time you've read this book, you will have a better understanding of how to avoid those costly minus scores at the six-level and higher. Learn w . . . read more. |
 | Improving Your Timing by Dr. James Marsh Sternberg • Danny Kleinman List Price: 187 pages. Paperback. Timing is everything. Playing a bridge hand, either as declarer or defender is often difficult enough. But in addition, knowing when to do whatever it is you are supposed to do adds another perspective to the game. Card play includes recognition of deal types that can guide you to the best plan. This book examines which of the tasks you hope to accomplish must be done when. Whether you declare . . . read more. |
 | Inferences at Bridge by Marshall Miles List Price: 192 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. In this book, Miles addresses the complex area of inferences for the more advanced player. A good bridge player must be like a detective, constantly on the alert for those vital clues in the auction or play that will lead him to draw the right inferences and make the right bids or plays. The author shows how to do this, and describes many common situations where inferences are typically missed by . . . read more. |
 | Introduction And Card Play Basics (YNM) A New Way To Learn Bridge Yes, No or Maybe by David Glandorf List Price: 196 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. Are you tired of learning/teaching bridge from a cookbook? Tired of memorizing how many points you need to bid this or that? Do you have trouble determining if you have a minimum, medium or maximum hand and what you are supposed to do if it fits in a particular category? Then Yes, No or Maybe is what you need--a series of three textbooks and companion workbooks for beginning bridge students.This . . . read more. |
 | Introduction And Card Play Basics Workbook (YNM) A New Way To Learn Bridge Yes, No or Maybe by David Glandorf List Price: 141 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. Are you tired of learning/teaching bridge from a cookbook? Tired of memorizing how many points you need to bid this or that? Do you have trouble determining if you have a minimum, medium or maximum hand and what you are supposed to do if it fits in a particular category? Then Yes, No or Maybe is what you need--a series of three textbooks and companion workbooks for beginning bridge students. This . . . read more. |
 | It's a Knockout by Ben Norton List Price: 216 pages. Paperback. You have reached the final of your country's most prestigious knockout teams event, but the toughest test is yet to come. You are up against the usual suspects, a top-class side with whom you have done battle on multiple occasions. Sixty-four hands are all that separate your squad from national glory. In a format popularized by his betters before him, Norton presents a simulation of a knockout te . . . read more. |
 | Jacoby 2NT (PYB) Practice Your Bidding Series by Barbara Seagram • Linda Lee List Price: 68 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. 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. |
 | Jacoby Transfers (PYB) Practice Your Bidding Series by Barbara Seagram • Andy Stark List Price: 68 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. 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. |
 | Kantar for the Defense Volume 1 An Eddie Kantar Bridge Classic by Eddie Kantar List Price: 204 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. Think Defense: Multiple world champion Eddie Kantar's popular bridge column, Kantar for the Defense, has run in The Bridge World for almost fifty years, challenging players to defeat the contract in a variety of situations. Now available once more in print, Kantar for the Defense Volume 1 and Volume 2 are a collection of the best of these columns, offering the reader 100 practical defensive probl . . . read more. |
 | Kantar for the Defense Volume 2 An Eddie Kantar Bridge Classic by Eddie Kantar List Price: 204 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. Think Defense: Multiple world champion Eddie Kantar's popular bridge column, Kantar for the Defense, has run in The Bridge World for almost fifty years, challenging players to defeat the contract in a variety of situations. Now available once more in print, Kantar for the Defense Volume 1 and Volume 2 are a collection of the best of these columns, offering the reader 100 practical defensive probl . . . read more. |
 | Kickback: Slam Bidding at Bridge Second Edition by Robert Munger List Price: 98 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. Expert Slam Bidding for Everyone. Until now, the Kickback convention has been the purview of the expert community. This book makes Kickback accessible to all tournament players for the first time. The author starts by explaining why Kickback is easier to use and more efficient than Roman Keycard Blackwood. The book addresses such vital issues as setting the trump suit, which strain to use to a . . . read more. |
 | King Arthur and the Knights of the Bridge Table by Nick Smith List Price: 203 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. King Arthur, tired and depressed, is holed up in a crumbling Camelot while half his knights vie to depose him. Cuckolded by his wife, Guinevere, he tries to find solace in bridge, but even there the skills that made his name as a young man have deserted him. There are newer stars at the famous Camelot bridge table--notably, Tristan, Galahad and young Gawain, one of five brothers from Orkney, who . . . read more. |
 | KK Relay by Karen McCallum • Kit Woolsey List Price: 614 pages. Paperback. Multi-time world champions Karen McCallum and Kit Woolsey explain their relay system, KK Relay, which they have used and perfected for several years. For readers not familiar with relay systems, the relay concept is quite simple: instead of making a descriptive bid, one of the partners makes a call that asks a question. Their partner answers that question. That's it! Many such systems are obtuse . . . read more. |
 | Larry Cohen's Bidding Challenge by Larry Cohen List Price: 192 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. 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. |
 | Last Board Everything Depends On It by Mark Horton List Price: 242 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. Over 100 years of bridge history, it is not surprising that one can find many matches that came down to the last board, or even the last card, played. And of course, there is an added poignancy in these situations that derives from the fact that bridge is a unique sport in one aspect--the players do not know the score. In this book, the authors collect dozens of fascinating deals, each of which i . . . read more. |
 | Leading Questions in Bridge by Sally Brock List Price: 176 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. Perhaps more points are won and lost on the opening lead than at any other time in a bridge hand. With only the bidding and his own thirteen cards as guidance, the opening leader must make a decision that has the potential, at one stroke, to determine the outcome of the play for better or worse. In this book, a top player and writer takes the reader through the questions that need to be asked bef . . . 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. |
 | Master Class: Lessons from the Bridge Table by Fred Gitelman List Price: 176 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. Imagine sitting beside a world-class bridge player and being able to listen to his thoughts as each hand develops... you can help but improve your own game! Every hand in this fascinating book comes from actual play; many of them are taken from the author's own experience in world-level competition. Fred Gitelman believes that there is something to be learned from every bridge hand, whether you a . . . read more. |
 | Mastering Hand Evaluation by Lawrence Diamond List Price: 131 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. Advance Your Partnership Communication. Getting to good games, slams, and staying out of poor contracts is an important aspect of bridge. The best way to improve your bidding is not to add a new convention but to improve your hand evaluation skills. In this book you will learn about the science of hand evaluation, going far beyond 4-3-2-1 high card points. Enhance your ability to recognize good c . . . read more. |
 | Matchpoints Second Edition by Kit Woolsey List Price: 370 pages. Paperback. Matchpoints, originally published in 1982, is one of the absolute classic bridge books. World Champion Kit Woolsey discusses every aspect of bridge -- constructive bidding, competitive bidding, declarer play, defense -- from the perspective of matchpoint expectation: how many matchpoints will I win if I am right, and how many matchpoints will I lose if I am wrong? Even veteran matchpoint players . . . read more. |
 | Misplay More Hands with Me by Mark Horton List Price: 184 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. This is the sequel to Misplay These Hands With Me (2007), which is based on Horton's popular series of articles in the ACBL Bulletin. In an over-the-shoulder style, the author offers an account of a plausible line of play on each example hand, always without success, then gently points out how the contract could and should have been made with just a little more thought. Perfect for improving play . . . read more. |
 | Misplay These Hands With Me by Mark Horton List Price: 208 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. The late Terence Reese, perhaps the greatest bridge writer of all time, introduce the 'over-the-shoulder' style of bridge writing in his classic Play These Hands with Me. In this wry homage to the master, Horton leads the reader through a plausibly logical line of play on each instructive deal, but one that ends in failure. In each post-mortem, the 'expert' realizes how he could have improved on . . . read more. |
 | Modern Constructive Bidding by Marshall Miles List Price: 240 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. 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. |
 | Modified Italian Canape System by Ken Rexford List Price: 205 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. In this book Ken Rexford introduces the strong club relay system with canape bidding that he played successfully for years. His approach is novel, but it is also one that is easy to learn and play. Most importantly, the entire system fits within the ACBL Gneral Convention Chart. As with his first book, Cuebidding at Bridge, Ken Rexford spends much time explaing the theory and thinking behind the . . . read more. |
 | More Accurate Bidding by Marshall Miles List Price: 89 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. This is not a book for beginners, and will not bore you with rehashing things you already know. Some of the topics are somewhat controversial, and as always Marshall Miles urges his own, often original, point of view. You may not be persuaded by everything he recommends, but perhaps you adapt part of it, and it won't hurt you to discover how some other people play, even if you refuse to play that . . . read more. |
 | More Bidding Basics (YNM) A Logical Approach To Bridge Yes, No or Maybe by David Glandorf List Price: 200 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. Are you tired of learning/teaching bridge from a cookbook? Tired of memorizing how many points you need to bid this or that? Do you have trouble determining if you have a minimum, medium or maximum hand and what you are supposed to do if it fits in a particular category? Then Yes, No or Maybe is what you need--a series of three textbooks and companion workbooks for beginning bridge students. This . . . read more. |
 | More Bidding Basics Workbook (YNM) A Logical Approach To Bridge Yes, No or Maybe by David Glandorf List Price: 92 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. Are you tired of learning/teaching bridge from a cookbook? Tired of memorizing how many points you need to bid this or that? Do you have trouble determining if you have a minimum, medium or maximum hand and what you are supposed to do if it fits in a particular category? Then Yes, No or Maybe is what you need--a series of three textbooks and companion workbooks for beginning bridge students. This . . . read more. |
 | More Bridge Literature by Nick Smith List Price: 205 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. Nick Smith's first book, Bridge Literature, was originally published in 1993 and has since been acclaimed as one of the quirky classics of the game. More Bridge Literature takes a similar form, as a set of parodies of well-known works of English literature. King Lear finds himself playing for France, Winnie-the-Pooh makes his first slam and Lady Bracknell proves hard to impress. Sherlock Holmes' . . . read more. |
 | More Trick One Getting Off To A Good Start by Dr. James Marsh Sternberg List Price: Paperback. Bridge is a game of mistakes. It's not a matter of being brilliant; the expert players never make basic mistakes that the good player does occasionally. Yes, sometimes there is a deal where the expert makes a brilliant play. But what often separates the expert from non-expert players is their play at Trick One, then trying to decide how to continue. So often it's already too late. The key to the . . . read more. |
 | MOSSO: Example Auctions and Quizzes Second Edition by Richard Granville • David Burn List Price: 300 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. For the last three years, the authors have been developing MOSSO, a new bidding system derived from 2/1, Fantunes and Polish Club. MOSSO brings together the best features of its parent systems, while providing an effective interface between them. The system has been the subject of enthusiastic discussion on the popular website bridgewinners.com. This is a two-book series. The first volume describ . . . read more. |
 | Multi-Landy The Killer Defense vs. 1NT Second Edition by David Oakley List Price: 283 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. When the opponents open one notrump, you are faced with a dilemma. Versus a strong notrump, the opponents have the power; versus a weak notrump, they force you or your partner to compete at the two-level. This second edition adds Part 5: Comparison with Other Conventions and a new section, Criteria for an Overcall. Multi-Landy comprises four components: - Multi. 2D shows a 6-card or longer major. . . . read more. |
 | My Favorite 52 Larry Cohen's Best Bridge Deals by Larry Cohen List Price: 264 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. 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. |
 | My Life with Bridge by Mike Lawrence List Price: 322 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. The rumors that Mike Lawrence has a new book have come to fruition. The book is the culmination of Mike's years in and out of the world of bridge. It includes stories behind the scenes of the Aces, touches on the cheating scandals, his travels around the world, and some of Mike's signature hands and opinions on conventions as well. Mike says, "I've written thirty books and thousands of articles o . . . read more. |
 | New Frontiers For Strong Forcing Openings by Ken Rexford List Price: 172 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. Ken Rexford's first book, Cuebidding at Bridge: A Modern Approach, took on the topic of Italian cuebidding, primarily in the context of a 2/1 Game Force system. However, he noticeably skipped the topic of cuebidding after a string two club opening. With this new book, we now know the reason, and his answer to the Big Problem. * This book describes an exciting new approach, using TWO strong openin . . . read more. |
 | No-trump Contracts (BC) Bridge Cardplay: An Easy Guide - 10 by David Bird • Marc Smith List Price: 52 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. Whether you are just setting out to discover the wonderful game of bridge, or have played for some time, your success will be limited without a sound understanding of the basic techniques of cardplay. In this series, two of the game's top writers explain clearly the various cardplay skills that you will need. Every booklet contains six chapters - each ending with a short Quiz. The topics covered . . . read more. |
 | Off-Road Declarer Play Unusual Ways to Play a Bridge Hand by David Bird List Price: 160 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. Every intermediate player is familiar with the routine techniques of dummy play. What this book describes are less well-known stratagems that may save the day in non-routine situations. They include methods for creating entries, surviving bad trump breaks, elopements, getting the defenders to help you out, and many more. In this unique and quirky book, the author introduces to the reader to new w . . . read more. |
 | On the Other Hand by David Bird • Larry Cohen List Price: 226 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. A New Way to Learn Bridge Cardplay. In this unusual book, David Bird and Larry Cohen combine to present cardplay instruction in a new way. 100 pairs of deals are shown - one described by David and the other by Larry. The deals look similar (in some cases very similar) but an entirely different line of play is necessary to make each of the contracts. Only by clearly understanding the techniques in . . . read more. |
 | Optimal Hand Evaluation by Patrick Darricades List Price: 149 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. Accurate hand evaluation is critically important to reaching the right contract in bridge. Yet, for over 75 years now, hand evaluation has essentially relied on Milton Work's 4-3-2-1 honor point count - a count known to be seriously flawed and inaccurate. The method gives a very unsatisfactory, inaccurate point count which leads, too often, to the wrong contract. In this book, the author addresse . . . read more. |
 | Optimal Hand Evaluation in Competitive Bidding by Patrick Darricades List Price: 149 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. In his first book, Optimal Hand Evaluation, the author introduced a number of corrections to the Goren point count to reach "optimal" hand evaluation accuracy. That first book focused on non-competitive bidding situations where no further adjustments were needed as a result of the opponents' bidding. This book now deals with this specific topic. First, it challenges the very premise of the Law of . . . read more. |
 | Over Hoffman's Shoulder by Martin Hoffman • Marc Smith List Price: 199 pages. Paperback. Travel the world of bridge with Martin Hoffman. After surviving the Nazi death camps, Martin Hoffman moved to England and discovered a talent for bridge. He went on to achieve great success in tournament play, and at his peak was known as the best pairs player in Europe, if not in the world. He was especially skilled at scoring well despite playing with much weaker partners. His chief weapons wer . . . read more. |
 | Overcalling Opponent's 1NT by Ken Rexford List Price: 96 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. Author Ken Rexford has developed an intriguing new approach to overcalling 1NT openings that may revolutionize this area of bridge. If you are unhappy with Cappelletti, DONT, Brozel, and the like, this book introduces you to a new approach for tackling the opponent's 1NT opening, with an entirely new way to handle one- or two-suited hands. Can your current approach tell partner whether you have a . . . read more. |
 | Parrish the Thought Volume 1 Preempts and Overcalls by Adam Parrish List Price: 304 pages. Paperback. Adam Parrish covers these essential topics in his signature easy-to-understand style. The book has two distinct sections, the first covering preempts and the second overcalls. All aspects of both topics are covered, from when and how to preempt or overcall to responding to your partner's preempt or overcall to dealing with the opponents' preempt or overcall. Each chapter has a quiz to reinforce t . . . read more. |
 | Parrish the Thought Volume 2 Modern Defensive Thinking by Adam Parrish List Price: 349 pages. Paperback. Defense is the hardest part of the game. You'll end up on defense about half the time, so honing your defensive skills is a prerequisite to becoming a better bridge player. It's essential to have solid agreements with your partner about your signals and leads. What sort of signal applies in a given situation? Which card to you lead from different holdings? But leading the correct card and giving . . . read more. |
 | Patrick Jourdain's Problem Corner by Patrick Jourdain List Price: 160 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. Patrick Jourdain's Problem Corner has been a popular regular feature of BRIDGE Magazine in the UK for many years. This collection of challenging declarer-play problems has been selected from the best of the material that has appeared there, and will be welcomed by advanced players. . . . read more. |
 | Placing the Cards Better Declarer Play - Book 2 by Danny Roth List Price: 186 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. The second book in Danny Roth's intermediate-level series on declarer play, this book covers topics that, once mastered, will bring any intermediate player an immediate improvement in their scores. Topics include: placing the cards missing one honor, missing two honors, missing three honors, inferences from the defense and second-degree assumption. This book is designed to help you to get a more . . . read more. |
 | Planning in Defense (BT) Bridge Technique Series by David Bird • Marc Smith List Price: 64 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. 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. At this price, what bridge player could stand not to have al . . . read more. |
 | Planning in Suit Contracts (BT) Bridge Technique Series by David Bird • Marc Smith List Price: 64 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. 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. At this price, what bridge player could stand not to have al . . . read more. |
 | Planning in Suit Contracts (TYBT) Test Your Bridge Technique Series by David Bird • Tim Bourke List Price: 104 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. Short and full of practical examples, each book takes the reader through the most important aspects of card-play Reese introduced the 'over the shoulder' approach to describing bridge hands in this classic book, and it was an immediate success. In this book, the reader can follow the thought processes of an expert through the bidding and play of many fascinating hands. First published in 1960, it . . . read more. |
 | Planning Notrump Contracts (TYBT) Test Your Bridge Technique Series by David Bird • Tim Bourke List Price: 104 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. 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. At this price, what bridge player could stand not to have al . . . read more. |
 | Planning the Play in Notrump (BT) Bridge Technique Series by David Bird • Marc Smith List Price: 64 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. 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. At this price, what bridge player could stand not to have al . . . read more. |
 | Planning The Play Of A Bridge Hand: Teacher's Manual For Part 1 by Jonathan Shute List Price: 201 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. Looking for a better approach to teaching declarer play? This manual is a presentation-ready Teacher's Manual for the first part of the ABTA award-winning book, Planning the Play of a Bridge Hand, by Barbara Seagram and David Bird. Six lesson plans are laid out with a word-by-word script, periodic reviews, and two review handouts to give to the class. Teacher preparation is minimal, and the cours . . . read more. |
 | Planning The Play Of A Bridge Hand: Teacher's Manual For Part 2 by Jonathan Shute List Price: 214 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. Looking for a better approach to teaching declarer play? A presentation-ready Teacher's Manual for the second half of the ABTA award-winning book, Planning the Play of a Bridge Hand, by Barbara Seagram and David Bird. This completes the conversion into classroom format begun in Jonathan Shute's Planning the Play of a Bridge Hand, Teacher's Manual for Part 1. Six two-hour lesson plans are laid out . . . read more. |
 | Play Better Bridge: All About Declarer Play - Part 1 by Lars Blakset • Knut Blakset List Price: 221 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. If you want to become a complete player, you absolutely must acquire the techniques you need to know to master the complexities of card play. More than that, you need to appreciate the importance of all 13 cards, not only the aces, kings and queens. This book, the first of two volumes, takes you on a voyage of discovery like no other devoted to declarer play. Utilizing hundreds of examples of ind . . . read more. |
 | Play Better Bridge: All About Declarer Play - Part 2 by Lars Blakset • Knut Blakset List Price: 194 pages. Paperback. If you want to become a complete player you absolutely must acquire the techniques you need to know to master the complexities of cardplay. More than that, you need to appreciate the importance of all 13 cards, not only the aces, kings and queens. This book, the second of two volumes, introduces advanced topics and completes your voyage of discovery like no other devoted to declarer play. Utilizi . . . read more. |
 | Play Bumblepuppy Bridge by Julian Laderman List Price: 101 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. Bumblepuppy Bridge is a wonderful stepping-stone to standard bridge. A total beginner can learn in an hour how to play the game - without any help from a bridge player. This novel game was created by award-winning bridge author and historian Julian Laderman, by blending simple features from several early forms of bridge. The game is appropriate for ages 6 to 106. A free video enables readers to w . . . read more. |
 | Play or Defend? 68 Hands to Test Your Bridge Skill by Julian Pottage List Price: 184 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. This is an unusual problem book in the style of Diosy's There Must Be a Way, in that the reader is shown all four hands and asked whether declarer or defense should prevail with best play. A fascinating challenge for the advancing player. . . . read more. |
 | Playing A Bridge Hand - Just The Basics by Mary Ann Dufresne List Price: 133 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. Want Better Results? Try better declarer Play! Have you noticed that good bidding doesn't always mean good results? Sometimes you don't make your perfectly-bid contract. Sometimes other declarers make an extra trick or two. If it's time to get serious about better declarer play, this is the perfect 'how to' book. You'll find it's surprisingly easy to: Count your winning and losing tricks. Master . . . read more. |
 | Playing A Bridge Hand - Teacher's Manual by Mary Ann Dufresne List Price: 108 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. A four-lesson course on declarer play -- designed for true beginners. If your students are ready to get more serious about their declarer play, this course is the perfect 'how to' guide. Students will find that it is surprisingly easy to: - Count winning and losing tricks. - Master three basic techniques for eliminating losers. - Manage entries. - Set priorities. What to do first, second, and . . . read more. |
 | Playing and Defending Slams by David Bird List Price: 203 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. Slam contracts are among the most enjoyable and rewarding parts of the game we all love. They are also a splendid setting for instructive writing. The teacher and reader can quickly reach the instructive part of the play. The first part of this book is on Playing Slams. Topics include determining the best line, managing entries, maneuvers in the trump suit, avoidance play, locating missing queens . . . read more. |
 | Playing Safely (BC) Bridge Cardplay: An Easy Guide - 10 by David Bird • Marc Smith List Price: 52 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. Whether you are just setting out to discover the wonderful game of bridge, or have played for some time, your success will be limited without a sound understanding of the basic techniques of cardplay. In this series, two of the game's top writers explain clearly the various cardplay skills that you will need. Every booklet contains six chapters - each ending with a short Quiz. The topics covered . . . read more. |
 | Playing Suit Combinations by Fred Gitelman • Jeff Rubens List Price: 96 pages. Paperback. This book serves two purposes: One is to enable the reader to improve card-play technique. The text illustrates how best to handle some specific holdings, and, more importantly, assists in the development of patterns of bridge problem-solving that apply not only to single-suit situations but to declarer-play and defensive problems in general. The other purpose is to share some of the beauties and . . . read more. |
 | Playing to Trick One There Are No Mulligans in Bridge Second Edition by Dr. James Marsh Sternberg List Price: 178 pages. Paperback. Bridge is a game of mistakes. The best players make fewer mistakes. It's not a matter of being brilliant--the real expert players never make basic mistakes, they keep the ball in the court, in the fairway. Sure there is an occasional hand where they make a brilliant play but that's not what distinguishes the true expert from the good player. One often hears an expert say "I've seen this hand befo . . . read more. |
 | Playing with the Bridge Legends by Barnet Shenkin List Price: 240 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. Since winning the world's most prestigious pairs event in his early twenties, with the equally precocious Michael Rosenberg, Barnet Shenkin has continued to build a an impressive bridge career. Over the last 25 years, he has had the opportunity to play with and against some of the best in the world, and in this book he recounts his favorite hands and stories. While much of his early career was ba . . . read more. |
 | Polish Club 2020: Expert by Krzysztof Jassem List Price: 316 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. The motto of the Polish Club 2020 Expert system is: 'Bid aggressively with an offensive hand, keep quiet with a defensive hand.' Non-vulnerable one-level light openings and responses are introduced here. But the main merit of the Polish Club, i.e. to 'keep an eye on the total strength of the bidders', is still preserved. In comparison to other versions of Polish Club (including Polish Club 2020 S . . . read more. |
 | Polish Club 2020: Standard by Krzysztof Jassem List Price: 220 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. The Polish Club bidding system is based on an ambiguous 1C opening, limited one-level openings, five-card majors and a Strong Notrump. The concept makes it possible to find partner's total strength on a lower level than in all-natural systems. In the Standard version, a 2C opening is Precision, 2D is Multi, and remaining two-level openings are weak Polish two-suiters. One of the key original feat . . . read more. |
 | Polish Club International by Krzysztof Jassem List Price: 200 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. A modern version of the definitive book on Polish Club. Includes a description of 'standard' Polish Club and its modern pro-style variations. Includes: quizzes, examples from expert play, and a special section on slam bidding. The book is intended for two groups of readers: those interested in the Polish Club system of playing bridge; those who want to get better understanding of trendy bidding t . . . read more. |
 | Positive Declarer Play at Bridge by Terence Reese • Julian Pottage List Price: 160 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. This book was originally published in 1985, and in this new edition is substantially revised and expanded. It is a collection of bridge problems designed to teach players how to think along the right lines at the bridge table. Anyone who absorbs even a fraction of the ideas presented here will himself making contracts that might have been defeated, and defeating contracts that might have been mad . . . read more. |
 | Positive Defense at Bridge by Terence Reese • Julian Pottage List Price: 160 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. This book was originally published in 1985, and in this new edition is substantially revised and expanded. It is a collection of bridge problems designed to teach players how to think along the right lines at the bridge table. Anyone who absorbs even a fraction of the ideas presented here will himself making contracts that might have been defeated, and defeating contracts that might have been mad . . . read more. |
 | Reading the Cards (BT) Bridge Technique Series by David Bird • Marc Smith List Price: 64 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. 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: 104 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. 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. |
 | Really Unusual Notrump (R.U.N.T.) by Ken Rexford List Price: 95 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. Ken Rexford provides the first authoritative description of the R.U.N.T. Convention. R.U.N.T. is actually a two-way overcalling structure to distinguish a very sound takeout double from a weak three-suited takeout by way of an artificial 1NT overcall - preempting and intervening in the auction safely and effectively. * Do you find a 4-3-3-3 hand with three Jacks a reason to sleep, or is this as g . . . read more. |
 | Reversing The Dummy And Its Cousin, The Crossruff by Dr. James Marsh Sternberg List Price: 87 pages. Paperback. When discussing declarer play, the first thing I always suggest is for declarer to try to determine what kind of hand he is dealing with. Proper play of the hand starts with planning your play at Trick 1. After identifying/counting your losers, you need to look for ways to eliminate them. Counting winners too sometimes makes things easier, especially for dummy reversals. After all, there are only . . . read more. |
 | Richelieu Plays Bridge by Robert F. MacKinnon List Price: 240 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. From the author of Samurai Bridge, this bridge novel is set in 17th century France. Through the medium of fictional bridge games, we see the politics and intrigue of the French court play out, and follow Cardinal Richelieu's career as he becomes the queen's confidant and the real power behind the throne. The bridge is deftly woven into the everyday life of the culture we are observing, so that it . . . read more. |
 | Robin Hood's Hold-up by David Bird List Price: 180 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. 12th-Century Bridge Adventures... Journey back to Sherwood Forest and Nottingham Castle in David Bird's fourth book of Robin Hood bridge stories. The 32 stories contain well over 100 splendid deals and provide the laugh-aloud humor and painless instruction for which the author is renowned. The cast list features Robin Hood, Maid Marian and the Outlaws--also their arch-enemies, the Sheriff of Nott . . . read more. |
 | Roman Keycard Blackwood (PYB) Practice Your Bidding Series by Barbara Seagram • Linda Lee List Price: 68 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. 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. |
 | Roman Keycard Blackwood: The Final Word Fifth Edition by Eddie Kantar List Price: 244 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. This is the fifth (and according to the author, the very last - but don't hold your breath!) edition of what is acknowledged to be the definitive book on a convention that every serious player uses. Completely revised and updated from the previous version, this newest version contains even more leading-edge ideas, and is full of examples, quizzes and practice hands. A must for the tournament play . . . read more. |
 | Ruffing Losers (BC) Bridge Cardplay: An Easy Guide - 8 by David Bird • Marc Smith List Price: 52 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. Whether you are just setting out to discover the wonderful game of bridge, or have played for some time, your success will be limited without a sound understanding of the basic techniques of cardplay. In this series, two of the game's top writers explain clearly the various cardplay skills that you will need. Every booklet contains six chapters - each ending with a short Quiz. The topics covered . . . read more. |
 | Safety Plays (BT) Bridge Technique Series by David Bird • Marc Smith List Price: 64 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. 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. At this price, what bridge player could stand not to have al . . . read more. |
 | Safety Plays (TYBT) Test Your Bridge Technique Series by David Bird • Tim Bourke List Price: 104 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. 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. At this price, what bridge player could stand not to have al . . . read more. |
 | Saints and Sinners The St. Titus Bridge Challenge by David Bird • Tim Bourke List Price: 192 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. David Bird's witty stories about the bridge-playing monks of St. Titus and their obnoxious Abbot have formed the basis of six previous collections, and appear regularly in bridge magazines throughout North America and the UK. This seventh book in the canon is presented in a new quiz format, so that you can try to solve the bridge problems before the monks encounter them. At the end of the book, a . . . read more. |
 | Santa Fe Precision by Dennis Dawson List Price: 212 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. This book on Precision is quite different. It is a very simplified version, based on the system played by Rodwell and Meckstroth so successfully, but aimed at club players. Eric Rodwell has endorsed the system and the book. Dennis Dawson learned Meckwell Lite fifteen years ago when playing on teams with Rodwell and Meckstroth. He then used it while representing the US in the Senior World Team Cha . . . read more. |
 | Scotland's Senior Moment by Harry Smith • Alex Adamson List Price: 270 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. Do you ever expect to play in a world bridge championship? The 2012 Scotland Senior team surprised many by qualifying. The story of how they got to Bali, and what happened to them once they got there, makes for fascinating reading. "A wonderful tale--the best underdog story since the Jamaican Bobsled Team. A must-read for any bridge player who wants to see what it is like to play in a world cham . . . read more. |
 | Scramble Stayman by Doug Bennion List Price: 119 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. Don't Settle for 1NT. Scramble Stayman examines (1) which types of hands qualify to scramble, (2) the scramble technique to use (beginning with 2 Clubs and overlaying standard Stayman) and (3) how the various scramble contracts score compared to 1NT, measured over thousands of hands. The book features a 100-board 'match' between one player staying in 1NT, and another scrambling to a (usually) be . . . 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. |
 | Secrets Your Bridge Friends Never Tell You by Cathy Hunsberger List Price: 172 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. You thought bridge was going to be eternally glorious, didn't you? Suddenly, out of the blue, you're going crazy! Confusion reigns supreme. Every partner is an expert with a barrage of new conventions. You are beset on every side with questions you fear to ask. * Secrets Your Bridge Friends Never Tell You explores the bumpy, and exciting, journey a bridge player takes on the road from beginner, t . . . read more. |
 | Shadow in the Bridge World 2022 Edition by Mike Dorn Wiss List Price: 218 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. The Shadow is a mysterious expert (at bridge, as well as many other sports) whose passion for anonymity means that you have never heard of him. The author is his friend, and under strict rules of concealment of the Shadow's identity, has been allowed to share these fascinating and instructive anecdotes with the world. Originally published more than 30 years ago, this edition is revised and expand . . . read more. |
 | Shark's Pointers by Mark Aquino List Price: 208 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. The original 'Shark's Pointers' article appeared in 1975, in a small Boston-area newspaper. Thirty years later, the idea re-emerged as a series of bridge columns and lectures in Massachusetts. Then, during the pandemic, Shark's Pointers went online, and it is these latter talks and the advice they contain that have now been collected into this book. Written in an over-the-shoulder style, this boo . . . read more. |
 | Shortness A Key to Better Bidding by Dr. James Marsh Sternberg List Price: 125 pages. Paperback. This book is about only one thing: Shortness, singletons or voids. It's impossible to overestimate the value distribution plays in bidding accuracy. High cards are nice; anybody can bid games and slams when the high cards are falling out of their hands onto the table. But usually those results don't get you very far. It's usually an average or maybe just above. You don't win bridge tournaments th . . . read more. |
 | Should I or Shouldn't I Drawing Trumps at Bridge by Marc Smith List Price: 241 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. To draw or not to draw? (trumps, that is)? You might be forgiven for thinking this is an easy question to answer, and on many deals it is. But there are also a large number of situations where it's all too easy to make the wrong decision. As declarer, you (usually) have the majority of cards in the trump suit, but managing them to best effect isn't always quite so simple. This book looks at thos . . . 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. |
 | Six Steps to Winning Declarer Play by Jay Apfelbaum List Price: 225 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. Do you want to play the hand better than you do now? Too many players have trouble deciding how to set about a contract as declarer. Do they worry about losers or winners? Do they draw trumps or not? Should they be guarding against bad breaks? There are so many things to think about, it's easy to get sidetracked. In this book, you will learn about the right questions to ask yourself as declarer . . . read more. |
 | Sixpack Adventures with Keycards and Queecards by Allan DeSerpa List Price: 232 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. Six keycard RKCB has come of age! As soon you identify a double fit, don't ask for keycards. . . just "launch" and tell. You can find out about all six keycards--and two "queecards"--below the game level. Part I of the book lays out a set of basic rules for any casual partnership to apply quickly and easily. Part II gets more advanced and complex, but operates along the same principles. Apply Six . . . read more. |
 | Slam Bidding Conventions Winning Bridge Conventions Series by Patty Tucker List Price: 162 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. Bridge students quickly discover that basic bidding will only get them so far. To improve it is necessary to master a certain number of bidding conventions, and be prepared both to play them and to play against them. Each of the books in this series covers a number of useful conventions, explaining them carefully along with numerous examples and quizzes to help the reader understand what is being . . . read more. |
 | Sleeping on the Couch The adventures of Dave playing bridge with his wife, Anne by Dave Caprera List Price: 202 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. All profits from the sale of this book will be donated to the United States Bridge Federation Junior Program. Here is what some of Dave's friends who appear in the book had to say: "I don't bid like that because if I do I will end up sleeping on the couch." - Mike Passell. "When they travel to tournaments, Dave chooses their hotel by the comfort of the sofas." - Chris Compton. "If Dave had just b . . . 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. |
 | Somehow We Landed In Six Notrump by David Bird List Price: 190 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. The stories and anecdotes in this collection have one thing in common: in every case, the contract is 6NT! The first half of the book features the world's finest players at work, tackling all manner of 6NT contracts ? some commendable, some truly awful. You will have a chance to plan your play in these contracts yourself before seeing what fate befell the original declarer. The second half of the . . . read more. |
 | Splinter Bids (PYB) Practice Your Bidding Series by Barbara Seagram • Linda Lee List Price: 68 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. 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. |
 | Squeezes Made Simple (BT) Bridge Technique Series by David Bird • Marc Smith List Price: 64 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. 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. At this price, what bridge player could stand not to have al . . . read more. |
 | Standard Bidding with SAYC by Ned Downey • Ellen (Caitlin) Pomer List Price: 192 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. What is Standard Bidding? This is an increasingly hard question to answer, but the proliferation of bridge on the Internet in pickup partnerships makes it imperative that someone does so. Perhaps the most popular natural system for the hundreds of thousands of online players worldwide is the Standard American Yellow Card, or SAYC. In this book, for the first time, SAYC is fully described and expl . . . read more. |
 | Standard Modern Precision Second Edition by Daniel Neill List Price: 204 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. Play the System National Champions Play. Over the last 20 years a consensus bidding system among American national champions has been chosen and is now the lingua franca for hundreds among the pro circuit, top junior players and strong tournament players. This book will introduce you to the system, called Standard Modern Precision (or SMP), with lots of examples, quizzes and real-life hands bid b . . . read more. |
 | Startup Bridge - And Beyond by Lynn Berg List Price: 205 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. Nothing is scarier than not knowing what to expect-as we all know, knowledge is power. I'm here to inform you, encourage you and help you (and your partner) help yourselves. Use this book as a way to get into the mysteries of bridge and its most challenging form, duplicate. Sure, knowledge of basic bidding protocols is necessary, but so is knowing what to expect, how to develop a partnership, wha . . . read more. |
 | Stayman Auctions (PYB) Practice Your Bidding Series by Barbara Seagram • Linda Lee List Price: 68 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. 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. |
 | Still Not Finding Squeezes by Julian Laderman List Price: 162 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. If your answer is YES to the following three questions, this is the book for you: 1. Have you read A Bridge to Simple Squeezes? 2. Did you see merit in the structured approach introduced in that book for executing simple squeezes? 3. Do you feel that in spite of your great effort you are still not finding squeezes? In Still Not Finding Squeezes, the structured approach is applied to the 39 squeez . . . read more. |
 | Strong Club, Unbalanced Diamond by Bruce Watson List Price: 234 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. The basis for the system described in this book was first suggested by Marshall Miles in My System: the Unbalanced Diamond. The core of SCUD is the same as in Miles' book; that is, strong club, unbalanced diamond, five-card majors and a weak notrump. However, author Bruce Watson felt that the original treatments for the 2C and 2D openings needed to change. In addition, he wanted to use transfer r . . . read more. |
 | Sublime Declarer Play After the Contested Auction by Nick Smith List Price: 237 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. Play like a Bermuda Bowl champion. It's not often that a bridge book comes along that takes dummy play into a new dimension, but Sublime Declarer Play does exactly that. The focus is on the competitive auction and the inferences that can be drawn from opponents' bidding choices. Moments of sublimity are the consequence of a series of logical steps rooted in that initial analysis. Tournament playe . . . read more. |
 | Suit Contracts (BC) Bridge Cardplay: An Easy Guide - 8 by David Bird • Marc Smith List Price: 52 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. Whether you are just setting out to discover the wonderful game of bridge, or have played for some time, your success will be limited without a sound understanding of the basic techniques of cardplay. In this series, two of the game's top writers explain clearly the various cardplay skills that you will need. Every booklet contains six chapters - each ending with a short Quiz. The topics covered . . . 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. |
 | Surviving Duplicate Bridge The first 23.69 points by Kathleen Vishner List Price: 100 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. Bridge partnerships can be fun. We all know that. Of course, they can also be difficult, maddening, disappointing, and frustrating. When the players of these partnerships are also spouses - well that's when things can get downright tricky. Kathleen Vishner shares with you the highs and lows of learning duplicate bridge while partnering with her ever-patient husband, Andy. Experience as she does t . . . read more. |
 | Swing Deals by Rakesh K. Kumar List Price: 204 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. In any Swiss Teams or IMP Pairs tournament, you will soon enough find yourself facing opponents who are frequent or consistent winners. How is it that when you earn your chance to challenge them, more of the IMP swings seem to go their way than yours? That's the focus of this book, which reviews over 100 deals that generated swings in IMPs competitions. It examines how effective bidding methods a . . . read more. |
 | Symmetric Relay Featuring Scamp and Spam by Nick Hughes List Price: 212 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. Relay in action. As bidding sophistication continues to grow, many top pairs are turning to relay systems, where one partner asks questions and then places the final contract based on the answers. Often these methods are tied to a strong club approach: methods such as the Ultimate Club and Moscito have been around for decades. The symmetric relay is an approach that is increasingly popular in Aus . . . read more. |
 | Take All Your Chances At Bridge by Eddie Kantar List Price: 160 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. 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: 172 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. 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. |
 | Tales From The Past by Avon Wilsmore List Price: 434 pages. Paperback. Tales From the Past is a a collection of bridge essays written by Avon Wilsmore. Some, in the area of advanced cardplay, have been published in The Bridge World. Many of the essays are about adventures, scandal and drama in the Australian bridge scene. . . . read more. |
 | Tales Out of School by David Silver List Price: 128 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. Move over Victor Mollo and David Bird! Fans of the Hideous Hog, the Abbot, and the Rabbi will find a new hero among the halls of Mohican College (the last of the community colleges to be established). Tales out of School is a collection of humorous bridge stories from the witty and satirical pen of David Silver. It will delight readers with the adventures of his alter ego, the hapless Professor S . . . read more. |
 | Teaching Bridge On Cruise Ships by Rosemary Boden List Price: 75 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. Travel and Teach at Sea! If you want to see the world without paying a king's ransom, turn your passion for bridge into teaching on cruise ships. Learn how to break into this wonderful world by following the advice in this little book. It covers everything from finding an agent and making a lesson plan to packing the right clothes. . . . read more. |
 | Test Your Bridge Judgement by Barry Rigal List Price: 207 pages. Paperback. One of Rigal's classics has been updated and modernized. Barry Rigal--the highly respected bridge commentator, author, and player--has set a series of tests of your bridge skill, and teaches you new skills at the same time. You are the player and he is your guide to making the crucial decisions at each stage of bidding and play. Rigal grades your performance and that of your partner and offers h . . . read more. |
 | Test Your Bridge Play Vol. 2 by Eddie Kantar List Price: 234 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. Become a better declarer - and Eddie Kantar promises it will be relatively painless! The problems in this book are not for experts - they are, however, for anyone whose ambition is to become a better bridge player. The problems involve the everyday cardplay maneuvers you have to master if you are going to improve as a declarer. As you work through this book, you will encounter more than one exa . . . read more. |
 | The Abbot's Senior Moment by David Bird List Price: 198 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. For forty-three years, David Bird's tales of the bridge-crazy monks of St. Titus have appeared in magazines around the world. They have been translated into several languages. In this fourteenth collection of stories in book form, the pompous and self-important Abbot wonders for the first time if old age is starting to affect his play. Regular followers of David Bird's work will know what to expe . . . read more. |
 | The Art of Becoming a Top Bridge Player by Samantha Punch • Tim Rees List Price: 168 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. Dr. Samantha Punch has interviewed many of the world's top bridge personalities. The players discuss their approach to the game, including subjects such as improving your game, coping with mistakes and emotions, how to become a good partner in a successful partnership, dealing with pressure and coping with loss. This book aims to show aspiring and expert players how they might develop their game . . . read more. |
 | The Best of Bridge Today Digest by Matthew Granovetter • Pamela Granovetter List Price: 192 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. 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 Blue Team in the History of Bridge by Carl'Alberto Perroux List Price: 384 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. Translated into English by Maurizio Di Sacco. Edited by Mark Horton. The Man Behind The Legend: How did Italy reach the summit of World Bridge and then remain there for more than fifteen years? How did a game that seems so little suited to the Italian temperament end up being the one that Italy dominated for so long? The answers to these questions can be found in this book through the diary of th . . . read more. |
 | The Bridge Player's Bedside Book by Tony Forrester List Price: 256 pages. Hardcover. Also available as an E-book. The ultimate collection of bridge stuff, with something for everyone from the beginner to the expert. Humor, mystery, quizzes, history, biography - it's all here. Over fifty world-class contributors, including Eddie Kantar, Alfred Sheinwold, Ron Klinger, Phillip Alder, Albert Dormer, and many more. Illustrated throughout, including elegant Fougasse cartoons such as this one. From Tony Forrester's . . . read more. |
 | The Complete Book Of BOLS Bridge Tips by Sally Brock List Price: 176 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. The BOLS Bridge Tips competition started in 1974, and took place off and on for more than 20 years. During that time, virtually all the world's greatest writers and players contributed their ideas to the series. For the first time ever, the entire collection of BOLS Bridge Tips are gathered here in one volume, edited and organized for easy access by the average player. Included too are biographie . . . read more. |
 | The Complete Book On Overcalls in Contract Bridge A Mike Lawrence Classic 2nd Edition by Mike Lawrence List Price: 320 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. 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 Complete Book On Takeout Doubles Revised and updated by Mike Lawrence List Price: 312 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. The definitive book on the oldest--and most useful--convention in bridge, the takeout double. Originally published in 1994, this book quickly became recognized as a 'must-read' for any would-be bridge expert, and has never been out of print. Now, almost twenty years later, the author has revised and updated the text to take into account modern developments in competitive bidding, one of the mos . . . read more. |
 | The Complete Guide To Passed Hand Bidding 2nd Edition by Mike Lawrence List Price: 207 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. The definitive book on auctions that begin in third or fourth seat. Originally published in 1989, this book quickly became recognized as a 'must-read' for any would-be bridge expert, and has never been out of print. Now, more than 20 years later, the author has revised, updated and expanded it to take into account modern ideas in bidding. Anyone who is at all serious about improving their game ne . . . read more. |
 | The Contested Auction by Roy Hughes List Price: 336 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. Roy Hughes first book, Building a Bidding System, has become a must-read for expert pairs looking to develop effective constructive bidding methods. Here, beginning by establishing what the structure needs to accomplish, Hughes discusses competitive bidding, and recommends useful methods and agreements. The book covers in detail many topics that have seen only cursory treatment in print up to now. . . . read more. |
 | The Encyclopedia Of Card Play Techniques At Bridge by Guy Leve List Price: 424 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. Unique in the literature of the game, this book describes and classifies hundreds of tactics, stratagems and coups used during the play of the hand at bridge. Each technique is illustrated with an example deal, and its application fully explained. The topics run the gamut from the simplest finesses to the most complex squeeze positions, and cover literally everything in between. This book will be . . . read more. |
 | The Finesse, Only a Last Resort by Dr. James Marsh Sternberg List Price: 250 pages. Paperback. How much do you really know about finesses? A finesse is one of the most common techniques in bridge and yet one of the most abused. The term "finesseaholic" describes a player who never met a finesse he/she didn't want to take. So often the finesse is really a last resort, only when other more promising lines of play are not available or have failed. As a common technique, so much is often taken . . . read more. |
 | The Hog Takes to Precision by Victor Mollo List Price: 184 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. Just about every bridge player in the world has read Victor Mollo's Bridge in the Menagerie, a book that is on any list of the all-time top ten on the game. Towards the end of his life, Mollo continued to write stories about the same well-loved characters (the Hideous Hog, the Rueful Rabbit, Oscar the Owl, and the rest), but some appeared only in the pages of obscure magazines, while others were . . . read more. |
 | The Language of Bridge by Kit Woolsey List Price: 317 pages. Paperback. Kit Woolsey's first new bridge book in 35 years is aimed at an intermediate audience, but with plenty of insights for advanced and expert players. This book examines the communication between partners as they work together to reach the best contract or try to defeat declarer's contract on defense. Kit brings his unique take on the game to the subject of partnership communication -- thinking abou . . . read more. |
 | The Lone Wolff Autobiography of a Bridge Maverick by Bobby Wolff List Price: 287 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. The world champion and former ACBL and WBF President discusses his own career with honesty and emotion, and tackles the big issues that others are afraid to talk about: players cheating at the top levels, destructive bidding systems, sponsorship, and professional players. . . . read more. |
 | The Mathematical Theory of Bridge by Emile Borel • Andre Cheron List Price: 502 pages. Hardcover. Also available as an E-book. 134 Probability Tables, Their Uses, Simple Formulas, Applications & 4000 Probabilities. Originally published in 1940, and revised in 1954, this classic work on mathematics and probability as applied to Bridge first appeared in English translation in 1974, but has been unavailable for many years. This new edition corrects numerical errors found in earlier texts; it revises the previous English tra . . . read more. |
 | The MOSSO Bidding System Second Edition by Richard Granville • David Burn List Price: 300 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. For the last three years, the authors have been developing MOSSO, a new bidding system derived from 2/1, Fantunes and Polish Club. MOSSO brings together the best features of its parent systems, while providing an effective interface between them. The system has been the subject of enthusiastic discussion on the popular website bridgewinners.com. This is a two-book series. The first volume describ . . . read more. |
 | The Naked Bridge Player and Other Stories by David Silver List Price: 160 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. Professor Silver is back! The hero of Tales Out of School, A Study in Silver, and Bridge The Silver Way takes on new opponents as the author finds fresh literary targets to lampoon. Yes, the man who brought us the Silver Certainty Principle, the Eastwood convention ("Do you feel lucky, partner?") and the concept of the supremacy of the heart suit in bridge now takes aim at The Matrix ("Will you c . . . read more. |
 | The Pocket Guide to Acol Bridge by Mark Horton • Barbara Seagram List Price: 64 pages. Booklet. Also available as an E-book. The original Pocket Guide to Bridge has sold more than 30,000 copies since it was published in 2002. Thousands of bridge players have found it an indispensable and handy guide to bidding, something that can be tucked into a purse or pocket and easily used as a reference at the table during lessons and practice games. This version is based on the Acol bidding system for readers in the UK and other . . . read more. |
 | The Pocket Guide To Bridge World Standard 2001 by The Bridge World List Price: 72 pages. Paperback. Bridge World Standard (BWS 2001) is the standard system developed by The Bridge World magazine based on the preferred methods of leading American experts. The system is ideal for use by impromptu or casual partnerships and as a basis for discussion by those who wish to formulate their own system. It was also used as a framework for problems in the magazine's monthly Master Solvers' Club contest f . . . read more. |
 | The Pocket Guide To Bridge World Standard 2017 by The Bridge World List Price: 76 pages. Paperback. Bridge World Standard (BWS 2017) is the standard system developed by The Bridge World magazine based on the preferred methods of leading American experts. The system is ideal for use by impromptu or casual partnerships and as a basis for discussion by those who wish to formulate their own system. It is used as a framework for problems in the magazine's monthly Master Solvers' Club contest beginni . . . read more. |
 | The Power of Pass by Ron Klinger • Harold Schogger List Price: 96 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. You compete with 3 hearts over 3 clubs. You play very well and manage to come to eight tricks. You are feeling good, until you open the scoresheet and find that 3 clubs has been defeated most of the time. You have gone minus when you could have been plus. Not vulnerable against vulnerable, your partner sacrifices in 5 hearts over 5 diamonds and is doubled. Partner is two off for -300. That wou . . . 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 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. |
 | The Secrets of Winning Bridge Second Edition by Jeff Rubens List Price: 224 pages. Paperback. 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. |
 | The Simple Squeeze (TYBT) Test Your Bridge Technique Series by David Bird • Tim Bourke List Price: 104 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. 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. |
 | The Weak Notrump How To Play it, How To Play Against It by Andy Stark List Price: 200 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. 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. |
 | Theme Recognition Vol. 1 A Key to Better Declarer Play by Dr. James Marsh Sternberg List Price: Paperback. The dummy comes down. Have you seen this deal before? Probably; not this exact deal but likely the same type of deal. There are only so many themes in bridge, second suits, crossruffs, squeezes, and others. Recognizing the underlying theme, either as the declarer or a defender, will guide you to the correct line of play. There are many variances and after studying the deals in this book, you wil . . . read more. |
 | Theme Recognition Vol. 2 A Key to Better Defensive Play by Dr. James Marsh Sternberg List Price: Paperback. The dummy comes down. Have you seen this deal before? Probably; not this exact deal but likely the same type of deal. There are only so many themes in bridge, second suits, crossruffs, squeezes, and others. Recognizing the underlying theme, either as the declarer or a defender, will guide you to the correct line of play. There are many variances and after studying the deals in this book, you wil . . . read more. |
 | There Must Be A Way 52 Bridge Hands to Challenge your Play and Defense by Andrew Diosy List Price: 96 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. 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: 158 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. 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. |
 | Thinking on Defense by Jim Priebe List Price: 192 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. Defense is the most difficult part of bridge, and for most players, the hardest part of defense is figuring out what to do. In this book, the reader is shown step-by-step how to visualize declarer's cards from the bidding and play, and then how to use this information to form a plan for the defense. This book is based on Jim Priebe's popular articles 'Visualization on Defense' which appeared in t . . . read more. |
 | To Bid or Not To Bid The Law of Total Tricks by Larry Cohen List Price: 240 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. 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. |
 | 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. |
 | To Win Or Not To Win The Art Of The Duck by Dr. James Marsh Sternberg List Price: 282 pages. Paperback. One of the most frequently encountered problems in bridge is knowing when to win, when to duck. A player may need to hold up a winner to hamper enemy communications or concede a trick to facilitate his own. But there are no steadfast rules one can fall back on. Each deal is different; so much depends on the particular setting. In this book studying the example deals either as the declarer or a de . . . read more. |
 | Toucan Club Complete by Ron Beall • Ron Woodard List Price: 116 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. Toucan is a modified 2/1 system using a natural but short club opening with transfer responses to it. Toucan Club Complete is a much-expanded version of the original Toucan Club book, and contains many example hands and auctions. "The one-club sequences are powerful. Transfer auctions are valuable because they allow the partnership an extra step to exchange more information. Responder knows the e . . . read more. |
 | Transfer Responses to One Club with Relays by Lyle Poe List Price: 148 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. Transfer responses and relays in the context of a forcing club system have been gaining in popularity in Europe for some time. Now, however, some top American pairs are using these methods, and recent changes in ACBL classifications mean that they can be played in most ACBL-sanctioned events. This book is an ideal introduction for players wanting to try an effective new approach to bidding that i . . . read more. |
 | Trick One The Right First Move by David Bird List Price: 225 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. A huge percentage of failing contracts go down because declarer did not play optimally on the first trick. Similarly, countless contracts are allowed to slip through because the defender in third seat made the wrong play. With 125 instructive deals, David Bird covers all aspects of the first card played from dummy, the first move by the defender in third seat and the card chosen by declarer from . . . read more. |
 | Tricks With Finesses (BT) Bridge Technique Series by David Bird • Marc Smith List Price: 64 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. 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. At this price, what bridge player could stand not to have al . . . read more. |
 | Tricks With Trumps (BT) Bridge Technique Series by David Bird • Marc Smith List Price: 64 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. 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. At this price, what bridge player could stand not to have al . . . 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. |
 | Trump Suit Headaches Rx for Declarers and Defenders 2nd Edition by Dr. James Marsh Sternberg List Price: 250 pages. Paperback. The trump suit adds a dimension that makes bridge so different from other card games. In a suit contract, play is complicated by declarer's need to keep control. If control is lost, it may be almost impossible to make proper use of one's strength in the side suits. Before playing to trick one, one should ask what might go wrong? If playing a suit contract, is there a reason not to draw trumps? Or . . . read more. |
 | Twelve Important Bridge Lessons - Declarer Play: The Next Level by David Bird List Price: 227 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. Bridge lessons for the next level. The instructive material in this book is presented in a novel way, as if the author is delivering a series of bridge lessons to a small group of enthusiasts. Occasionally, members of the audience ask questions, or make comments. Its predecessors, Twelve Important Bridge Lessons on Declarer Play and Twelve Important Bridge Lessons on Defense won Book of the Year . . . read more. |
 | Twelve Important Bridge Lessons On Declarer Play by David Bird List Price: 216 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. Bridge Lessons for Aspiring players. The instructive material in this book is presented in a novel way, as if the author is delivering a series of bridge lessons to a small group of enthusiasts. Occasionally, members of the audience ask questions or make comments. Twelve important topics on declarer play have been chosen, describing techniques that you might apply several times during every sessi . . . read more. |
 | Twelve Important Bridge Lessons On Defense by David Bird List Price: 213 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. The instructive material in this book is presented in a novel way, as if the author is delivering a series of bridge lessons to a small group of enthusiasts. Occasionally, members of the audience ask questions, or make comments. Twelve important topics have been chosen, describing defensive techniques that you might apply several times during every session you play. Each lesson contains at least . . . read more. |
 | Variable Keycard Blackwood by Ken Rexford List Price: 122 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. Roman Key Card Blackwood has dominated expert circles for the past half century, but it is not flawless. One obvious difficulty is sometimes not knowing whether the partnership is missing two aces or one ace and the trump king. Variable Key Card Blackwood may be the next logical step. VKCB allows partnerships to address many problems that Roman Key Card Blackwood does not solve, while keeping t . . . read more. |
 | Wanna Play Bridge The 2/1 Way? by Kathy Rolfe List Price: 193 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. This book can be used as an absolute beginner book, teaching the 2/1 bridge bidding system from the start. Use just Chapters 1-5 to teach children as young as 6! They can learn how to play before they are ready to learn how to bid. Older than 9, kids can move right along with adults into learning the bidding system. The book can also be used by a novice player who has the mechanics down but who s . . . read more. |
 | We Love The Majors by Mary Ann Dufresne • Marion Ellingsen List Price: 254 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. Want to learn to play bridge? Let Mary Ann Dufresne and Marion Ellingsoen get you started. You won't find a clearer, simpler presentation of the basic guidelines. Plus, the authors tell you about their winning bridge strategy: bid a major whenever you can! * Unlike many beginner's books, We Love the Majors doesn't oversimplify the game for ease of consumption. This is an honest presentation of th . . . read more. |
 | We Love The Majors - Teacher's Manual by Mary Ann Dufresne • Marion Ellingsen List Price: 194 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. Do you want to be a bridge teacher. But you're not sure where to start? This comprehensive and easy to follow teacher's manual was designed by the authors of We Love the Majors, Mary Ann Dufresne and Marion Ellingsen, to compliment their reader-friendly beginner's book. The teacher's guide contains six complete, detailed lesson plans, including hand diagrams, that teachers can easily customize to . . . read more. |
 | What Do These Bids Mean - Teacher's Manual A brief bidding review by Timothy LeVan List Price: 79 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. A Bidding Review for You and Partner. Visualize everyone's hands from their bids only. What do their bids promise? Deny? Multiple possible Bids and Rebids show minimum, medium, or maximum hands. Are they forcing? What cards and points are required? What Seat are you in? Your bids will vary based on your Seat. Review a Bidding Concept and Bidding Sequences. Consult What Do These Bids Mean? and Tho . . . read more. |
 | What Do These Bids Mean? A brief bidding review by Timothy LeVan List Price: 213 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. A Bidding Review for You and Partner. Visualize everyone's hands from their bids only. What do their bids promise? Deny? Multiple possible Bids and Rebids show minimum, medium, or maximum hands. Are they forcing? What cards and points are required? What Seat are you in? Your bids will vary based on your Seat. Review a Bidding Concept and Bidding Sequences. Consult What Do These Bids Mean? and Tho . . . read more. |
 | What Does Partner Have? Book 1 by Timothy LeVan List Price: 139 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. A Bidding Review for You and Partner. In Book One, the opponents pass. You see only your South hand. Book Two is a continuation of Book One - now with all four players bidding. Analyze everyone's bids: What do they promise? Deny? Are they forcing? What cards and points are required? Review a Bidding Concept. Bid Example Deals. Consult What Does Partner Have? and Thoughts. Take the Quizzes and che . . . read more. |
 | What Does Partner Have? Book 2 by Timothy LeVan List Price: 115 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. A Bidding Review for You and Partner. In Book One, the opponents pass. You see only your South hand. Book Two is a continuation of Book One - now with all four players bidding. Analyze everyone's bids: What do they promise? Deny? Are they forcing? What cards and points are required? Review a Bidding Concept. Bid Example Deals. Consult What Does Partner Have? and Thoughts. Take the Quizzes and che . . . read more. |
 | What's Your Call? The Bridge Player's Handbook of Basic Bidding by Frank Stewart List Price: 224 pages. Paperback. 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. |
 | What's Your Line? 100 Instructive Bridge Problems by David Bird List Price: 206 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. Fine-Tune Your Cardplay. This collection of 100 problems features instructive deals that have appeared in David Bird's bridge columns over the past few years. The author has aimed to present problems that will give you a good chance of finding the solution. They illustrate a wide range of card-play techniques. Each problem is presented in two-hand format on a righthand page, with the solution and . . . read more. |
 | When Michaels Met The Unusual by Dr. James Marsh Sternberg List Price: 97 pages. Paperback. In the earlier days of bridge, a direct cue bid of the opponent's opening bid was traditionally played as a 'strong cue bid', a hand too strong for an ordinary take-out double, and forcing to game. A typical hand was any 4-4-4-1 hand with 18-19+ HCP. These occurred so seldom and players found they could be handled by starting with a take-out double anyhow that the direct cue bid was finally put t . . . read more. |
 | When to Bid Notrump (And How to Play It) by Adam Parrish List Price: 255 pages. Paperback. In When to Bid Notrump (And How to Play It), Adam Parrish gives the same thorough and understandable treatment to notrump contracts that he gave to trump contracts in When to Draw Trumps. The first section deals with common questions about notrump bidding: when do you need a stopper, when do you bypass a four-card major to bid notrump, when do you choose notrump over a major-suit fit? The second . . . read more. |
 | When to Draw Trumps by Adam Parrish List Price: 307 pages. Paperback. The Ultimate Guide to Playing a Trump Contract. Knowing when to draw trumps is absolutely fundamental to playing a suit contract, but it is not always an easy decision to make. How many times have you drawn trumps immediately, only to realize later that you should have waited? Or, trying to learn from your mistake, put off drawing trumps when you shouldn't have and gone down in a cold contract? T . . . read more. |
 | Who Has The Queen? The Bridge Player's Handbook of Card Reading by Frank Stewart List Price: 206 pages. Paperback. An introduction to inference, counting, assumption and related topics, things players can use to see their opponents' cards. It's in a quiz format and treats both declarer play and defense. This book is full of interesting deals in which finding a missing queen, or one of her relatives, is the key to making a contract. The problems cover various types of logical thinking, including: counting and . . . read more. |
 | Why I Lose at Bridge A Collection of Cardplay Errors by Ben Norton List Price: 230 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. Learn from Ben's mistakes. Here is a rare jewel: an expert bridge player admitting to his own mistakes. In this, his first book, England international Ben Norton passionately describes the cardplay errors he committed in various events over a span of some three-and-a-half years. From a game at the local pub to the top echelon of world-class competition, each of these errors is instructive no matt . . . read more. |
 | Win At Duplicate Bridge Bid Difficult Bridge Hands Like An Expert by Fred Parker List Price: 210 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. 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. |
 | Win the Bermuda Bowl with Me by Jeff Meckstroth • Marc Smith List Price: 256 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. An over-the-shoulder look at the thought processes of one of the world's best players as Jeff Meckstroth takes the reader through the highs and lows of winning the Bermuda Bowl - the world teams championship. Written in the style of Terence Reese's classic Play Bridge with Reese, this book gives readers a chance to make their own decisions at critical stages in each deal, and compare their soluti . . . read more. |
 | Winners, Losers and Cover Cards by Ken Eichenbaum List Price: 190 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. You began by learning to count points, but that only got you so far. Then, someone introduced you to a new idea, Losing Trick Count. Better in theory, sure. But how do you use it? A response shows at least 6 high-card points, but how many losers? How many of these mysterious "cover cards"? What's the range? Plus, something just seems wrong with the whole thing! How can A 3 2 be just as good as Q . . . read more. |
 | Winning at the Club by Matthew Thomson List Price: 219 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. Bridge in 2020 went online at the club. With daily opportunities to observe players while running games, teacher Matthew Thomson started on a quest to understand why players were so often making bids and plays that surprised him. This led him to ask the question, "How can I best help the club player?" Selecting a daily hand for lessons shared before each online game saw immediate results, allowin . . . read more. |
 | Winning Declarer Play by Dorothy Hayden Truscott List Price: 270 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. Learn Declarer Play from an Expert. This classic book, a bestseller for more than forty years, has been updated for this edition by Gail Greenberg, a frequent partner of Dorothy Truscott, and like her a World Champion. Dorothy had a unique ability to make complex bridge concepts simple to understand, and everything here, from the basics to the most complicated squeeze or endplay, is described in . . . read more. |
 | Winning Duplicate Tactics by David Bird List Price: 238 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. Matchpoints is a different game from IMPs and party bridge, and it requires a whole different approach. This book explains the right strategies for bidding, play and defense at matchpoint pairs for players starting out on their competitive careers. Duplicate bridge is a different game. It's true that you can get by if you play exactly the same way as you would in a home social game or a team matc . . . read more. |
 | Winning IMPs by Rakesh K. Kumar List Price: 194 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. This book highlights the strategies that contribute to success in team games. Of course, there is no magic formula for winning at bridge, given the inherent complexity, the incomplete information available to both sides, and the psychological elements involved. However, there are some characteristics common to consistent success: good bidding methods are essential these methods are useless withou . . . read more. |
 | Winning Notrump Leads by David Bird • Taf Anthias List Price: 202 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. To discover which opening lead is best from a given West hand against a particular auction, the authors use computer software to generate 5000 deals that match the North-South bidding. (The West hand remains the same and the other three hands are chosen randomly.) The software then plays these deals automatically, seeing which of the 13 possible opening leads works best at both IMPs (rubber bridg . . . read more. |
 | Winning Suit Contract Leads by David Bird • Taf Anthias List Price: 232 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. Winning Notrump Leads was a ground-breaking and very well-received book that used the power of computers to determine which opening leads work best against a variety of auctions at notrump. Using enhanced software, the authors now turn their attention to suit contracts. . . . read more. |
 | World Championship 2021 at Salsomaggiore Terme 45th World Bridge Team Championship by World Bridge Federation List Price: 340 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. The official publication of the World Bridge Championships 2021 at Salsomaggiore Terme. From the World Bridge Federation. Edited by Mark Horton. It is comprised of approximately 300 full colour pages. The principal contributors are Brian Senior, Barry Rigal, Mark Horton, Marek Wojcicki, Daniel Gulyas & Ron Tacchi. The book includes many photographs from the championships, a full list of results a . . . read more. |
 | World Championship 2023 at Marrakech by World Bridge Federation List Price: 340 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. Published by the World Bridge Federation, the official book of the World Bridge Championships 2023, held in Marrakech, Morocco. It is comprised of approximately 340 full color pages. The principal contributors are Mark Horton, David Bird, Maurizio Di Sacco, Barry Rigal, Brian Senior & Marc Smith. . . . read more. |
 | World Championship 2024 at Buenos Aires by World Bridge Federation List Price: 324 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. Published by the World Bridge Federation, the official book of the World Bridge Championships 2024, held in Buenos Aires, Argentina. . . . read more. |
 | World Class 21st Century: European Stars by Marc Smith List Price: 296 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. Marc Smith's original World Class, published in 1999, became a classic. This all-new edition features the world's best players of today discussing their lives, at the table and away from it--how they started, their best and worst bridge memories, their favorite hands, why partnerships work well, and their hopes for the future. You may recognize the names from your bridge magazine or from watching . . . read more. |
 | World Class 21st Century: USA and Rest of World by Marc Smith List Price: 308 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. Marc Smith's original World Class, published in 1999, became a classic. This all-new edition features the world's best players of today discussing their lives, at the table and away from it--how they started, their best and worst bridge memories, their favorite hands, why partnerships work well, and their hopes for the future. You may recognize the names from your bridge magazine or from watching . . . read more. |
 | You Have to See This by Andrew Diosy • Linda Lee List Price: 96 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. 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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