Download or read book How to Defend a Bridge Hand written by William S. Root and published by Three Rivers Press. This book was released on 1995-04-11 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a comprehensive work covering every angle in defending bridge hands. As a bonus, there is a section on many of the lead and signal conventions practiced in expert circles.
Download or read book How to Defend a Bridge Hand written by William S. Root and published by Crown. This book was released on 1994 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A guide to defense covers opening leads, signals, trump promotion, discarding, and deception, and shares sample hands to test one's understanding of strategy
Download or read book Tips on Bridge Defense written by Ken Casey and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2018-04-18 with total page 421 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is designed to give a comprehensive view of the rules of play for defense. The book contains rules for how to defend against a long suit, when and how to ruff , how to handle a forcing defense, how to defend against a squeeze play or an endplay, when and how to duck, when to play 2nd hand high or 3rd hand low, how to play from E, when to underlead your Ace, how to discard and deceive, how to defend against a notrump contract, how to signal and how to lead. Under each subject, there are numerous examples illustrating each rule of defense.
Download or read book Don t Be a Dummy written by Elliot Sternlicht and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2003-03-31 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book covers basic bridge principles relating to all three aspects of bridge - bidding, defending and declaring a hand. I have imparted ideas that I have learned in over twenty years of playing high-level tournament and rubber bridge.
Download or read book Eddie Kantar Teaches Modern Bridge Defense written by Eddie Kantar and published by Master Point Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covers leads, signaling, second- and third-hand play, and discarding, and includes practice hands and quizzes.
Download or read book Defending at Bridge written by Bill Treble and published by Government Printing Office. This book was released on 2016-09-15 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No bells or whistles, just the plain, simple stuff to get you started on the road to becoming a good defender. In eight easy lessons, this book coves the things you really need to know: opening leads and signaling against notrump and suit contracts, second and third-hand Play, the Rule of Eleven, discards, and basic strategy. Quizzes and example hands make the whole process of learning both fun and productive. Praise for Bill Treble's 'Getting into the Bidding', An excellent intermediate-level book covering contested auctions. The focus is on providing a foundation for choosing and using methods - which are available, which are popular, and what are the trade-offs among them. The Bridge World Book jacket.
Download or read book Bridge written by Barbara Seagram and published by Master Point Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Defense is the hardest part of playing bridge, but that doesn't mean that it's impossible to learn. The authors explain how to make a plan as a defender: how to work out from the auction and play what declarer probably has, and which of the strategies available to defenders is likely to be successful.
Download or read book Positive Defense at Bridge written by Terence Reese and published by Master Point Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book was originally published in 1985, and in this new edition are substantially revised and expanded. It is a collection of bridge problems designed to teach players how to think along the right lines as they approach the play or defense of a hand at the bridge table. Anyone who absorbs even a fraction of the ideas presented here will find himself making contracts that might have been defeated, and defeating contracts that might have been made.
Download or read book Five Steps to Simplify Defense written by Audrey Grant and published by . This book was released on 2019-10-14 with total page 57 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Bridge Guide encourages players to see the potential of weak hands. When the defenders know the standard opening lead guidelines and how to use signals and the Defenders' Plan, they start to maximize the partnership's trick-taking potential on defense, even when holding the weakest hand at the table.
Download or read book Partnership Defense in Bridge written by Kit Woolsey and published by Baron Barclay Bridge Supplies. This book was released on 1991-06 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A detailed discussion of signals, leads, matchpoints, defensive conventions and protecting partner.
Download or read book Tournament Bridge Tips on Defense written by Ken Casey and published by Xlibris Us. This book was released on 2019-06-19 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is designed to give a comprehensive view of the rules of play for defense. The book contains rules for how to defend against a long suit, when and how to ruff, how to handle a forcing defense, how to defend against a squeeze play or an endplay, when and how to duck, when to play second hand high or third hand low, how to play from E, when to underlead your ace, how to discard and deceive, how to defend against a notrump contract, how to signal, and how to lead. Under each subject, there are numerous examples illustrating each rule of defense.
Download or read book The Complete Book of Bridge Hands written by Ken Casey and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2019-06-19 with total page 889 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is meant to be a comprehensive book on all the various types of bridge hands. Each type of hand is categorized in a separate chapter. Volume One contains a partial compilation of my three books on tournament bridge. These three books are Tournament Bridge for Beginning Players, Tournament Bridge for Intermediate Players, and Tournament Bridge for Advanced Players. All three of these books were revised in 2018. Volume Two contains a partial compilation of my two books on playing notrump hands and on playing defense. These two books are entitled Playing the Notrump Hand in Bridge and Tips on Bridge Defense. Both of these books were also revised in 2018.
Download or read book New Approach to Play and Defense written by Edwin B. Kantar and published by Griffin Publishing. This book was released on 1993-02-01 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A truly new bridge experience, this book gives you a chance to play and defend the same contracts.
Download or read book Defense on the Other Hand Understanding Defensive Techniques written by DAVID. COHEN BIRD (LARRY.) and published by . This book was released on 2020-01-10 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book There Must Be a Way written by Andrew Diosy and published by Master Point Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduce a new type of bridge problem: an analytical challenge. In every case, the reader is given all four hands, and asked whether the contract should make or go down with perfect play and defence. And every time, there are hidden depths, where every move by declarer could be met by a counter-move from the defence, until finally one side or the other comes out on top. Dr. Andrew Diosy (1924-2012) was a physician specializing in internal medicine, whose hobbies included bridge and chess. Born in Hungary in 1924, he moved to Canada after the Hungarian uprising in 1957, where he lived in Toronto, Ontario.
Download or read book The ABCs of Bridge written by William S. Root and published by Crown. This book was released on 1998-11-10 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: William S. Root, winner of many national bridge championships, premier bridge teacher, author of classic bridge books, and recently elected to the Bridge Hall of Fame, is one of America's foremost bridge personalities. As a player, Bill Root has won all three of the most important American trophies (the Vanderbilt, the Spingold, and the Reisinger) a total of thirteen times. He has represented the United States in the Bridge Olympiad; in the Bermuda Bowl; and on exhibition tours to South Africa, Australia, and New Zealand. He is rated a World Master by the World Bridge Federation. As a bridge teacher, Bill is considered to be one of the best of all time and has helped tens of thousands to enjoy the world's most popular card game. He has been the director for the National Intercollegiate Bridge Tournament and has served as Card Games Authority for the Association of American Playing Card Manufacturers, making him the modern-day Hoyle for the 120 million card players in America. His many best-selling bridge books include Commonsense Bidding, How to Play a Bridge Hand, and How to Defend a Bridge Hand (all of which won the Book of the Year title awarded by the American Bridge Teachers' Association.) He also coauthored the popular Modern Bridge Conventions with Richard Pavlicek.
Download or read book Charles H Goren s 100 Challenging Bridge Hands for You to Enjoy written by Charles Henry Goren and published by Doubleday Books. This book was released on 1976 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
