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Challenge Your Declarer Play

Author : Danny Roth

Publisher : Master Point Press

Page : 132 pages

File Size : 13,49 MB

Release : 2000

Category : Games & Activities

ISBN : 9781894154208

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"So you think you're a good declarer? Most books on play take you up to the critical moment in a hand and then ask you to find the winning continuation. But at the table, there is nobody to give you that all-important nudge when an unexpected or difficult play is required, and that's the way the hands are presented in this book. The collection of problems here will test those who are confident they are good declarers and will enable more modest readers to improve their game."--Back cover



Eddie Kantar Teaches Topics in Declarer Play at Bridge

Author : Eddie Kantar

Publisher : Master Point Press

Page : 226 pages

File Size : 36,1 MB

Release : 2002

Category : Games & Activities

ISBN : 9781894154536

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Kantar's two-book series on Bridge Defense (Modern Bridge Defense and Advanced Bridge Defense) won an ABTA Book of the Year Award in 1999. This newer book addresses a more popular topic, using a similar approach. While not a comprehensive treatment of declarer play at bridge, this book deals with specific topics exhaustively, and will be invaluable to the improving player: finesses (when and how to take them, and equally importantly, when to avoid taking them), endplays, eliminations, issues with entries, suit establishment, and counting. Designed to be used by bridge teachers, or by students learning on their own, this book like its predecessors contains a host of features that help the student to grasp the material: clearly laid-out concepts, margin notes, practice hands, chapter-end quizzes, key-point summaries at regular intervals, and an index. Kantar's various beginner books have sold hundreds of thousands of copies, not least because of his unique writing style and the humor that he introduces into the learning process. Eddie Kantar Eddie Kantar (Santa Monica, CA) is one of the most popular and prolific bridge writers in the world. A winner of two World Championships, and a member of the Bridge Hall of Fame, his many books include Modern Bridge Defense, Advanced Bridge Defense, the hilarious Kantar on Kontract, and of course, Roman Keycard Blackwood. His work appears regularly in many bridge magazines around the world.



The Art of Declarer Play

Author : Tim Bourke

Publisher : CreateSpace

Page : 388 pages

File Size : 41,66 MB

Release : 2014-02-25

Category : Games

ISBN : 9781494247256

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2014 IBPA Master Point Press Book of the Year! From Master Point Press: "This year we had a plethora of terrific books to choose among for our Book of the Year. In another year, three of our other candidates might have won the award. However, this year, one book stood out from the rest. The Art of Declarer Play belongs in the ranks of Watson, Reese and Kelsey as one of the best books on declarer play ever written. If you buy only one bridge book this year, this should be the one." ADVANCED / EXPERT Anybody can make straightforward contracts. THE ART OF DECLARER PLAY is about how to handle the rest. If you already have a good grasp of declarer-play technique, the blocking and unblocking plays, the eliminations and the squeezes, then this is the book for you. Bourke and Corfield begin where most of the other books finish, and reveal what goes on inside the mind of an expert, explaining how to anticipate the likely distribution, how to use logic and visualization, how to listen to the cards, and many other ways to make 'impossible' contracts. By understanding the thought processes that lead to a successful strategy in the most challenging of contracts, you will be able to replicate them for yourself, and bid with the confidence that comes from expert-level declarer play. If you want your cardplay to improve out of all recognition, If you want to learn the secrets of expert-level technique, If you are not afraid to challenge yourself, Then read on...



How to Play Bridge with Your Spouse and Survive

Author : Roselyn Teukolsky

Publisher : Master Point Press

Page : 196 pages

File Size : 36,19 MB

Release : 2002

Category : Games & Activities

ISBN : 9781894154505

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Even social bridge can be like a roller coaster, where partners rocket up and down together from euphoria to 'you idiot' - while club and tournament bridge are worse still. Indeed, when a married couple play bridge together, they tend to drag the marriage along with them - for better or worse. For the answer to the social dilemma of how to survive bridge games with your spouse, read this book. You will learn to deal with such situations as premarital bridge, bridge with another couple, disaster recovery, romantic weekends, mid-life crises and even children as the critical phases of a bridge marriage are subjected to Ms. Teukolsky's witty and engaging analysis and advice. Roselyn Teukolsky Before her retirement, Roselyn Teukolsky taught math and computer science at Ithaca High School in upstate New York. She is married to her favorite bridge partner, and they have two daughters. Formerly a regular contributor to various bridge magazines, she is working on a novel that has nothing to do with bridge.



The Bridge World's Test Your Play

Author : Jeff Rubens

Publisher : Master Point Press

Page : 172 pages

File Size : 43,85 MB

Release : 2002

Category : Games & Activities

ISBN : 9781894154437

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Book Description

Perhaps the world's most prestigious bridge magazine, 'The Bridge World' each month features a column entitled 'Test Your Play', which consists of two difficult problems in declarer play for readers to solve. In this book, Jeff Rubens has collected some of his favourite hands from this column, and presents them as a compendium for those who like a serious intellectual challenge. There is a steady market for problem books of this kind and this collection is guaranteed to be of high quality.



The Bridge Bum

Author : Alan Sontag

Publisher : Master Point Press

Page : 244 pages

File Size : 36,73 MB

Release : 2003

Category : Games & Activities

ISBN : 9781894154574

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Play Or Defend?

Author : Julian Pottage

Publisher : Master Point Press

Page : 148 pages

File Size : 48,94 MB

Release : 2003

Category : Crafts & Hobbies

ISBN : 9781894154550

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Book Description

This is an unusual problem book in the style of Diosy's There Must Be a Way, in that the reader is shown all four hands and asked whether declarer or defense should prevail with best play. A fascinating challenge for the advancing player.



How Good Is Your Bridge?

Author : Danny Roth

Publisher : Master Point Press

Page : 204 pages

File Size : 47,35 MB

Release : 2007

Category : Games & Activities

ISBN : 9781897106327

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Rate your bridge with this quiz book on declarer play and defence. The author presents a series of card play problems, and assigns the reader to a score based on how close to the optimum solution they get. Readers can expect their scores to improve as they work through the book, inevitably learning as they go.



Pathways to Better Bridge Defense

Author : Danny Roth

Publisher : Master Point Press

Page : 170 pages

File Size : 12,51 MB

Release : 2003

Category : Games & Activities

ISBN : 9781894154543

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So you tend to be dealt very bad hands. I know exactly you feel! But, facing the facts of life and recognising that it is not your fault, you are going to have to accommodate this failing and improve your defence. It is a hard part of the game; even in international competitions, the standard of defensive play is, to put it kindly, modest. Yes, you will get plenty of reports of brilliances involving spectacular switches, deceptions, unblocks and discards of honours. But for every one of those, there are countless others in which the display would disgrace any beginners' class. I am going to assume that you are a regular club or tournament player who knows the basics of defence but who comes unstuck when it comes to situations where you have to work the hand out in detail. This book will help you to improve dramatically in this area. -- Danny Roth.



Safety Plays

Author : David Bird

Publisher : Master Point Press

Page : 68 pages

File Size : 50,84 MB

Release : 2000

Category : Games & Activities

ISBN : 9781894154192

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Short and full of practical examples, each book in the 'Bridge Technique Series' takes the reader through the most important aspects of card-play technique at bridge. Where appropriate, play is examined from the point of view both of declarer and defenders. Full of quizzes and chapter reviews, these award-winning books will also reinforce the bridge concepts you learn. At this price, what bridge player could stand not to have all twelve?