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. As interesting as the hands they play are the characters who come to their table each round.

Bridge at the Cranmer Club

Adam Parrish

Bridge Winners Press

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? When to Draw Trumps gives you the tools you'll need to approach these problems with confidence.

When to Draw Trumps

Kit Woolsey's classic Matchpoints, the definitive guide to matchpoint strategy and tactics, is modernized and updated in this new edition from Bridge Winners Press.

Matchpoints

Humor & Entertainment

Kit Woolsey

Puzzles & Games

More than just a book of great hands (there are, of course, lots of great hands), Battling the Best 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 soul of BAM bridge.

Battling the Best

Sartaj Hans

This is a really good bridge book. It is actually 2 books in 1. The first 75 pages discuss when you should bid notrump. It discusses in detail when you need a stopper to bid notrump and when you don't. It also discusses topics such as opening 1NT with a 5 card major, jumping to 3NT, showing vs. asking cuebids, when to choose notrump over a major suit fit, and when the opener should rebid 1NT instead of showing a 4 card Spade suit. The 2nd half of the book is 175 pages and discusses how to play notrump. The author covers basic notrump strategies including counting winners, counting losers, the hold-up play, the safe hand, and entries. He describes a simple technique of counting your sure tricks and then determining potential additional tricks and breaks them down into guaranteed tricks and possible tricks. There are also several 1NT hands included in the book which is helpful since bridge players often struggle when playing 1NT. (Amazon customer)

When to Bid Notrump (And How to Play It)

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 the material. A great resource for advancing players.

Parrish the Thought Volume I: Prempts and Overcalls

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 his unique analysis. The hands are instructive but practical. A great way to hone bidding judgment and playing technique.

Test Your Bridge Judgment

Barry Rigal

The Partnership Coup

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. His partner answers that question. That's it! Many such systems are obtuse and difficult to remember, but KK Relay has been structured in a way that both eases memory burden and increases efficiency. A must read for any system wonk.

KK Relay

Karen McCallum

Bridge is a game of communication between partners. As such, the methods of communication used in bridge -- the bids we make during the auction and cards we play on defense -- constitute a language. Understanding how to speak that language requires more than learning what the different "words" mean; one must know how and why to use these "words." Like words in a sentence, an individual bid's meaning will be augmented and amplified by the context of the auction and sequence of other bids. In order to learn to speak this language fluently, we also have to learn to think correctly. As when we are speaking English, we use our bridge language ("Bringlish") in the pursuit of a goal. The goal of bidding is to get to the best contract, not to follow some rules or "describe your hand." The goal of defense is setting the contract or taking the maximum number of tricks, not telling partner what you hold or giving the "right" signal. Kit Woolsey tackles this subject in characteristic style: clear and logical analysis, supported by numerous example hands. Kit's unique perspective on bridge offers insights valuable to players of all levels.

The Language of Bridge

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