Clever Bridge Tricks

Senior, Brian

Faber&Faber

A player's response to a partner's first bid is often the key to securing the right contract. This book deals with all aspects of raising partner. Divided into two parts, it looks at the uncontested and the contested auction. Brian Senior is the author of "Clever Bridge Tricks".

Raising Partner

Humor & Entertainment

Puzzles & Games

Offers the average club player a unique insight into expert thinking in all areas of the game of bridge. The book describes 24 deals as they were actually played in drives in local bridge clubs and analyses the actions of all four players at the table. It suggests how improvements can be made in all aspects of bidding, play and defence with the emphasis, throughout, on improving the standard of playing match-pointed pairs events, the most common form of duplicate bridge in most clubs throughout the world. A tip at the end of every deal is included, with the games arranged in the correct order of dealer and vulnerability, so that any club or bridge teacher can easily duplicate any or all of the hands played at the table.

Over Your Shoulder: Learn from the Experts

Forrester, Tony

B.T.BATSFORD LTD

Good declarer playing depends on clear thinking and attention to detail. This book answers all the questions the declarer needs to ask - and solve - at the table. The book adopts a step-by-step approach which has been developed over years in teaching weekends and bridge cruises. It takes the reader through 60 hands of progressive difficulty and is designed so that any intermediate player who works systematically through the hands - whether at home, in the club or in a tournament - will be rewarded by a dramatic improvement in his/her standard of play. The book includes a full index which lists all the techniques illustrated in the hands.

Step-By-Step Card Play in Suits

TRAFALGAR SQUARE +

"What am I trying to tell my partner?" This and all the beginner's questions are answered here through a series of exercises which impart a firm understanding of Acol bidding.

Bread & Butter Bidding: The Ideal Guide For All Beginners

Batsford

Intended for bridge players above beginner level who have learned the basic structure of Acol or Standard American and wish to improve their bidding judgement, this book explains the difference between good points and bad points. It also describes how the value of a hand changes during the auction.

Hand Evaluation in Bridge: How to Adjust the Point-Count Method to Assess the True Value of Your Hand

Applies color photographs of typical hands to demonstrate every sequence of games in progress, enabling beginner bridge players to master the conventions and become accomplished players.

Amazing Book of Bridge

Book Sales

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 table by your opponents.

Conventions Today

Master Point Pr

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 table by your opponents.  Brian Senior is a leading international player/writer and authority on the game who has represented England, Northern Ireland and Great Britain. His recent titles include For Love or Money and The Amazing Book of Bridge.

Master Point Press

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Clever Bridge Tricks

Raising Partner

Over Your Shoulder: Learn from the Experts

Step-By-Step Card Play in Suits

Raising Partner

Bread & Butter Bidding: The Ideal Guide For All Beginners

Hand Evaluation in Bridge: How to Adjust the Point-Count Method to Assess the True Value of Your Hand

Amazing Book of Bridge

Conventions Today

Conventions Today