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In the modern game, the majority of auctions are competitive, and every improving player needs to acquire the tools to handle this kind of bidding. This text covers the basic building blocks of...

Getting to Good Slams, by the same author (2018), is an in-depth discussion of how to improve your slam bidding. Using examples from tournament play, the author identified hard-to-bid, but good,...

Weak two-bids are well ensconced in the bridge world and are now part of any beginning program of lessons. They are, however, in that class of "most abused" conventions. An understanding of all the...

The answer to your prayers - a simple, effective convention for competing over the opponents' 1NT opening bid! Originally self-published in 1996, the first edition sold out quickly, so that this much...

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...

Be Right by Not Doing Wrong The inimitable Professor Gaston Gitane-Gauloise demonstrates his unique Inverted Bridge Teaching Method, showing you by example what not to do in Bridge, thereby allowing...

Are you a lucky player ? It is no co-incidence that the best players are lucky players. You can become a "better" player by improving your bidding system with your partner and by improving your play...

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...

Chthonic, the bridge-playing computer is back! This time he is attempting to teach humans a little about the game of bridge - not in order to turn them into competent players, because he knows that...

Bridge players are taught numerous rules to help them make good bidding decisions, rules that involve things like point count, losing trick count, the Law of Total Tricks and a host of other...

To be successful, a bridge player has to think like a detective, tracking down the distribution of the unseen hands. Although many players are oblivious to them, the tell-tale clues are there, just...

Introduction To Declarer Play: Second EditionAuthor: Eddie Kantar, Barbara SeagramPublisher: Master Point PressPublication Date: Nov 01, 2019Number of Pages: 168 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding:...

Introduction To Defense: Second EditionAuthor: Eddie Kantar, Barbara SeagramPublisher: Master Point PressPublication Date: Nov 01, 2019Number of Pages: 160 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding:...

Expert Slam Bidding for Everyone Until now, the Kickback convention has been the purview of the expert community. This book makes Kickback accessible to all tournament players for the first time. The...

Last Call in the MenagerieAuthor: Victor MolloPublisher: Master Point PressPublication Date: Mar 31, 2015Number of Pages: 196 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10: 1771400161ISBN-13:...

As a multiple world champion, and former president of the World Bridge Federation, no-one is better placed than Bobby Wolff to discuss the big issues that face the game today. Wolff talks...

Imagine sitting beside a world-class bridge player and being able to listen to his thoughts as each hand develops... you can help but improve your own game! Every hand in this fascinating book comes...

ADVANCE YOUR PARTNERSHIP COMMUNICATION THROUGH HAND EVALUATION Getting to good games, slams, and staying out of poor contracts is an important aspect of bridge. The best way to improve your bidding...

The late Terence Reese introduced the instructional 'over-the-shoulder' style of writing in his classic bridge book Play These Hands With Me. In this wry homage to the master, Mark Horton leads the...

The logical follow-up to the author's best-selling Competitive Bidding in the 21st Century, this book deals with the latest expert thinking on constructive auctions at bridge. As usual, Miles' ideas...

In this book, Ken Rexford introduces the strong club relay system with canap? bidding that he played successfully for years. His approach is novel, but it is also one that is easy to learn and play...

This is not a book for beginners, and will not bore you with rehashing things you already know. Some of the topics are somewhat controversial, and as always Marshall Miles urges his own, often...

Author: Nick SmithPublisher: Master Point PressPublication Date: Feb 21, 2020Number of Pages: 206 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 177140213XISBN-13: 9781771402132

First published in 1988, this book has been out-of-print for several years. It is a mystery and a bridge textbook all in one, and accomplishes both exceptionally well. Based on the author's own...

Using an intimate 'over-the-shoulder' presentation, this book takes us through 50-plus bridge deals from the authors own experience - deals that were important to him in some way, technically...

I've written thirty books and thousands of articles on bridge. This in itself has been a challenge. First, I have to learn what I'm talking about. Then I have to put it into words -- that is the easy...

The irascible hero of 'Tales Out of School' and 'A Study in Silver' is back! Watch him take on new opponents as the author finds fresh literary targets to lampoon. Once again, Tim Bourke's...

Ken Rexford's first book, Cuebidding at Bridge: A Modern Approach, took on the topic of Italian cuebidding, primarily in the context of a 2/1 Game Force system. However, he noticeably skipped the...

In bridge, the 'declarer' is the one who nominates which suit is trumps; his/her partner's hand becomes the 'dummy'. Every intermediate bridge player is familiar with the routine techniques of dummy...

Accurately assess the value of your combined hands Accurate hand evaluation is critically important to reaching the right contract in bridge. Yet, for over 75 years now, hand evaluation has...