Bridge: Play Your Cards Right


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In this text, acclaimed bridge writer Paul Mendelson shows how the play of bridge cards is akin to a series of battles from the moment dummy hits baize.




Bridge: Winning Ways to Play Your Cards


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Many bridge books feature magical and inspiring hands but hands that are never seen in day-to-day play at the bridge table. Bridge: Winning Ways to Play Your Cards concentrates on the type of hands that will make a real difference to your scores and which will help you improve your game. Discover how to assess your opponents' strengths and weaknesses - in relation to your own - and win!




Right Way to Play Bridge


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This book shows you how to improve your bridge at both a social and competitive level. Clear examples explain the detail of modern Acol bidding. This will enable the reader to plan and reassess their campaign step-by-step and calculate with precision who holds which cards. Guidance is also given on how and when to obstruct or bluff, how to pinpoint the best leads and steal the best contracts, and ways to think strategically under pressure. Unique at-the-table charts - designed to foster partnership understanding used appropriately at home, club or class - summarise key bids.




Card Play Technique


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How to Improve Your Bridge


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Watson's Classic Book


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This book, by one of the first and foremost authorities on contract bridge, is regarded as the classic exposition of playing strategy. Practically all variations of play, both in attack and in defense, are explained and illustrated in it.




Audrey Grant's Better Bridge


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"This book tells you everything you need to know about the most widely accepted bidding methods. Read about the secrets of hand evaluation that can dramatically improve your game. Learn how to describe your hand to partner so that the partnership can find its way to the best contract. Discover new concepts that keep the bidding conversation straightforward. You'll be confident when you go to your next bridge game because you'll have the solid foundation needed to handle any bidding sequence."--Back cover




Test Your Bridge Play


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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




Bridge Basics 1


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Starts at the beginning, introducing the mechanics of the games. It covers bidding, play and defense.