Author : Dianne Aves
Publisher : Master Point Press
Page : pages
File Size : 48,35 MB
Release : 2021-01-11
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 9781771400657
A retired math teacher, the author has long felt that counting is the most useful skill she can instill in her bridge students, but that most books approach the subject at too high a level... No longer! This book introduces the concept of counting for newer players, and helps them to begin acquiring a skill that is critical to their becoming better players.
Author : Hugh Walter Kelsey
Publisher :
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 36,49 MB
Release : 1971
Category : Contract bridge
ISBN :
Author : Tim Bourke
Publisher : Master Point Press
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 48,11 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 9781894154055
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.
Author : Ron Klinger
Publisher : Victor Gollancz
Page : 93 pages
File Size : 32,46 MB
Release : 1984
Category : Games
ISBN : 9780575056398
Author : Barbara Seagram
Publisher : Master Point Press
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 37,94 MB
Release : 2008-06
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 9781897106334
Written for complete beginners, this book is based on material that Barbara Seagram uses in her own classes to introduce hundreds of new players to the game every year. The book will take readers to the point where they can enjoy a social game with friends or begin to explore their local bridge club.
Author : Terence Reese
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 159 pages
File Size : 46,77 MB
Release : 2013-06-17
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 0486317463
DIVCommon terms, fundamentals of offensive and defensive bidding and play made clear. 130 bidding hands, 18 sample games. Summary of bidding. /div
Author : Harry Lampert
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 25,73 MB
Release : 2012-11-06
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 1439147825
The Fun Way To Serious Bridge is for anyone who wants to learn and understand the fundamentals of the mind-stimulating and challenging game of bridge -- and enjoy every minute of it! Harry Lampert combines his skills as a bridge player and teacher with his artistic talents to bring you a totally new FUN way to learn the game. The magic of his superb cartoons and simple, informative language will help you to absorb the principles of serious contract bridge -- and remember them. You'll laugh and learn every step of the way from opening bids to strip and end plays. Whether novice or seasoned social player, this unique book will make good bridge a simple "trick." You'll learn all about: * Opening bids, suit bids, response and no trump bids, and how to force bids * Competition and the reasons and ways behind it * Big hand bidding such as Blackwood Convention, grand slam force and Gerber Convention * Patterns of play including how tricks are won, the finesse, establishing a long suit, when to pull and delay trumps and entries. * Defensive and advanced play -- plus much more!
Author : Ron Klinger
Publisher : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 25,18 MB
Release : 2009-04-09
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 9780297855576
The Losing Trick Count is a way of measuring the trick-taking potential of a trump contract. It enables you to calculate the playing-strength, the tricks in your own hand and to estimate those in your partner's hand. Used correctly the LTC is a vastly superior valuation technique for accurate bidding.
Author : William S. Root
Publisher : Crown
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 12,29 MB
Release : 2010-11-03
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 0307774457
Neither for beginners nor for experts but for the 90 percent of players in between, How to Play a Bridge Hand includes more than 300 of bridge master William Root's favorite hands. Hailed by the American Bridge Teachers' Association as the "Book of the Year." Line drawings.
Author : Burt Hall
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 20,83 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Bridge whist
ISBN : 9780966116700
There are three unique things about this book: (1) It is the first book in about 40 years to deal with the entire game of bridge, (2) It represents the best thinking of modern day experts and (3) It is expecially well organized and easy to read. The book received the 1997 Book of the Year award and continues to be a bestseller at national tournaments
