100 Winning Bridge Tips for the Improving Player


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This unique collection of Bridge tips has been selected specifically for the improving player who still lacks experience in handling common problems in bidding, declarer, and defensive play. By working through the various exercises, the intermediate player will save countless hours and inestimable frustration in reaching expert status.




365 Winning Bridge Tips


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Can you learn from the errors of others? Here is a collection of problems, mostly very simple ones, that gave a variety of players, mainly intermediate players but occasionally beginners or 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 problems to challenge defensive maven Eddie Kantar. Instead you will find the kinds of "bread and butter" problems that arise several times a session each time you trudge to your local duplicate bridge club or travel to a sectional or regional tournament. An invaluable collection of advice for the improving player, covering all aspects of the game.




Pocket Posh Tips for Bridge Players


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A bridge guide like no other—essential strategies, tricks, trump tactics, and much more, all in a stylish portable package! Our Pocket Posh® series has over 3 million copies in print! In Pocket Posh Tips for Bridge Players ten-time national champion and WBF World Master Marty Bergen offers his essential tips for bridge players, as well as insights on the Law of Total Tricks, the Rule of 20, Bromad, and much more.




Improve Your Bridge Memory


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Treasury of Bridge Tips


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Provides over five hundred bidding tips for intermediate bridge players to improve their game, explaining how to count tricks and be aggressive, and covering the first response, overcalls, takeout doublers, preempting, negative doubles, and related topics.




Winning Contract Bridge


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Teach Yourself VISUALLY Bridge


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Teach Yourself VISUALLY™ Tricks. Trumps. Auctions. Contracts. Bridge is a challenging game, but you can quickly grasp its basics with this guide that shows how it's played. Teach Yourself VISUALLY Bridge covers everything from evaluating a hand and bidding it through playing the cards and scoring the results—guiding you play by play and trick by trick. With this book and with practice as declarer or defender, you"ll quickly be playing your bridge cards right. Maybe you"ll even make a slam—doubled, redoubled, and vulnerable! Concise lessons show you the keys to successful play and are ideal for quick review Text helps to de-mystify bridge rules, lingo, and traditions Each strategy or tactic is clearly explained Graphics help you visualize concepts and build your bridge skills Helpful tips provide additional guidance




Countdown to Winning Bridge


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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 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 help you the most. But how do you keep track of all those cards? This book will show you how - explaining the tricks of the trade, and helping anyone who can count to thirteen to become a much better player. Full of practical examples of how to apply the information you get from counting, this book is sure to improve your game.




How to Improve Your Bridge


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121 Tips for Better Bridge


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This is a book for the three million 'social' bridge players (in the UK alone) who know the rules and can play a reasonable hand, but want to refine their skills and improve their understanding of the game. The 121 bridge tips range from simple to more advanced and all offer solid advice on how best to deal with a variety of situations. Tips are clearly explained and are followed by an example hand and a reader's test. There is no simpler way to improve your bridge.