Download or read book The Complete Book on Hand Evaluation in Contract Bridge written by Mike Lawrence and published by Baron Barclay Bridge Supplies. This book was released on 1983 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How to refigure your assets as the bidding proceeds
Download or read book The Complete Book of Bridge Hands written by Ken Casey and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2018-07-06 with total page 1178 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 How to Play a Bridge Hand written by William S. Root and published by Crown. This book was released on 2010-11-03 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Watson s Classic Book written by Louis H. Watson and published by William Morrow Paperbacks. This book was released on 1971-01-01 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
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 Complete Guide to Passed Hand Bidding written by Mike Lawrence and published by Master Point Press. This book was released on 2011-10-15 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A major contribution to bidding theory, easy to understand and fun to read at the same time" -- Publisher description.
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 691 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 1 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 2 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 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 The New York Times Bridge Book written by Alan Truscott and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2004-08 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A guide to the popular card game includes anecdotes about great players, major tournaments, scandals, and strategies that make bridge so legendary.
Download or read book Bridge for Everyone written by D. W. Crisfield and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2023-10-01 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bridge is a famously challenging card game, one that’s next to impossible to learn without a whole host of visual aids. But books on the subject all too often seem to ignore this. Enter Bridge for Everyone, which takes a step-by-step, visual approach to explaining the game clearly to beginners and intermediates. With 400 full-color photos, it begins with the rules and the fundamentals of bidding, play, defense, and scoring. Not only does it give you what it takes to hold your ground no matter what your hand, it then takes the bidding up a notch by introducing more techniques—and strategies for winning.
Download or read book Beginning Bridge written by Barbara Seagram and published by Master Point Press. This book was released on 2008-06 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book The Complete Book of Bridge Hands written by Ken Casey and published by Xlibris Us. This book was released on 2018-06-28 with total page 626 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 Planning the Play of a Bridge Hand written by Barbara Seagram and published by Master Point Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, starting from the basics, explains how to make a plan as a declarer. The reader learns how to recognise which technique to apply on a given deal, both in notrump contracts and suit contracts.
Download or read book The Complete Book on Balancing in Contract Bridge written by Mike Lawrence and published by Baron Barclay Bridge Supplies. This book was released on 2013-01-16 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This revised and expanded edition examines bridge auctions where the opponents bid something and you have the opportunity to either let them have it or to balance. The cost of not balancing can be huge, but you must weigh the cost of passing against the cost of bidding and getting a bad result. Lawrence's discussion of hand evaluation and planning a balancing auction goes beyond generic rules. Hundreds of examples help you develop judgment
Download or read book How the Experts Win at Bridge written by Burt Hall and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
Download or read book Watson on the Play of the Hand at Contract Bridge written by Louis H. Watson and published by . This book was released on 2008-04-01 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is THE BOOK that every strong bridge player in the world has studied. Louis H. WATSON, the author of this book, was rated as one of the ten outstanding Bridge players in the world by all experts and authorities. Collier's Magazine of March 24,1934, ranked Mr. Watson as No. 4 player. Ely Culbertson considered Mr. Watson "among two or three authorities really qualified to write on Bridge, because he is a master player, a great analyst and a fine writer-all in one." For many years Mr. Watson was closely associated with Mr. Culbertson as, Technical Editor of The Bridge World Magazine. As Bridge Editor of The New York Post, Mr. Watson wrote daily for this newspaper and associated newspapers. The Post said: "Even more than for his skill, and his Bridge trail-blazing, Mr. Watson deserves a special niche among Bridge masters. For he is a Bridge expert who can also write. He can make the most complex and critical Bridge situation as clear as simple honors." MR. WATSON'S CHAMPIONSHIP RECORD In 1934 he won the Team-of-Four Championship of the All-American Whist League at Chicago with Samuel Fry, Jr., A. Mitchell Barnes and H. Hither Boscowitz; also won the Contract Pair Championship of the same tournament with Samuel Fry, Jr. In 1934 he won the Cavendish Club Individual Trophy, competing against a score of New York's master Bridge players. In 1933 he won the Team-of-Four Championship of the All-American Whist League with Samuel Fry, Jr., Walter Malowan and Charles Lochridge; also won the Contract Pair Championship of the same tournament with Samuel Fry, Jr. In 1932 he won the National Team-of-Four Championship of the American Bridge League at Asbury Park with Oswald Jacoby, Michael T.Gottlieb and Theodore A. Lightner.
Download or read book The New Complete Book of Bridge written by Albert Dormer and published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson. This book was released on 2022-12-12 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book gives a full account of modern Acol and of the whole range of defensive and competitive bidding. It is suitable for players up to a high standard but will readily be understood by less experienced players as each topic starts with the fundamentals. The play of the cards is covered in all important aspects, with an emphasis on mental approach and on principles of wide application. Deals are presented in a way that allows the reader to develop his thoughts and arrive at solutions. There are many hints of practical value that will stay in the mind.
