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Bridge Books - Advanced

	Shark's Pointers
	Mark Aquino
	Reprinted articles from Northeastern expert Mark Aquino on how to get the most of your game and your partnership.
	$19.95		Available now and ready to ship

	I Love This Game
	Sabine Auken
	Hear the top-ranked woman player in the world describe her favourite moments in her bridge career, and share her philosophy of the game. This is my personal favorite of all the expert biographies on the market.
	$19.95		Available now and ready to ship

	Matchpoint Tricks
	Ib Axelsen and Villy Dam
	A set of 58 declarer play problems highlighting the matchpoint pairs decision-making process. A few of the hands would be played different at IMPs (e.g., safety play vs. best chance for maximum results) but most of the material is also relevant to all forms of play -- when your contract is secure, finding your best chance for an overtrick is worthwhile at all forms of scoring, though the reward is smaller at IMPs and total points.
	$9.95		Available now and ready to ship

	Enhanced Precision
	Ron Beall
	New 4th edition incorporating all the latest high-powered gadgetry for a strong club system.
	$17.95		Available now and ready to ship

	A Simpler Blue Team Club: Mississauga style
	Dan Berkley
	[needed]
	$24.95		Available now and ready to ship

	Clever Plays in the Trump Suit
	David Bird
	[needed]
	$19.95		Available now and ready to ship

	Off-Road Declarer Play: Unusual Ways to Play a Bridge Hand
	David Bird
	Fourteen chapters of advice on how to handle unpleasant problems in the play of the hand when the easy "textbook" solutions don't apply: ways to reach an apparently entryless dummy, to unblock blocked suits, to cope with bad trump breaks, to rectify the count for a squeeze when the obvious way of giving up a trick is dangerous, and more.
	$18.95		By special order only

	Saints and Sinners: the St. Titus Bridge Challenge
	David Bird and Tim Bourke
	More short stories from David Bird's ever-frustrated Abbot. Each story is preceded by a quick "what would you have done?" quiz box, for you to test your wits against the monks. The hands run the gamut from simple good sense to very deep analysis of the opponents' likely holdings.
	$19.95		Available now and ready to ship

	Somehow We Landed in 6NT
	David Bird
	A collection of hands where real experts and not-so-experts bid 6NT and then had to find a line of play that gave them a chance of salvaging the board.
	$19.95		Available now and ready to ship

	Winning Duplicate Tactics
	David Bird
	Coverage of all aspects of how duplicate strategy differs from rubber bridge strategy -- everything from accepting game tries, 3NT vs. 5C, to styles of opening leads. Many examples drawn from computer simulation of which contracts are most successful.
	$19.95		Available now and ready to ship

	Thinking about IMPs
	John Boeder
	Many duplicate players play matchpoints every week, and IMPs only for the Sunday Swiss at their annual local tournament. This book covers the skills needed to maximize your score at IMPs. Chapters on partscore bidding, choosing the right game, slam bidding, opening leads, and planning the play and defence. Also, special sections on partnership compatibility and sensible choice of bidding system.
	$12.95		By special order only

	IMPs vs Matchpoints: Different Games, Different Strategies
	Augie Boehm
	The Professor and Sally tackle the differences between pairs and teams.
	$13.95		By special order only

	The Art of Declarer Play
	Tim Bourke and Justin Corfield
	The first two sentences of the foreword sum up this book perfectly: "Learning happens at the point of resistance. When you can solve a problem relatively easily, you feel good about your game, but have not learned a thing." Winner of the ABTA Book of the Year award, and acclaimed as 'the best new book on play since Adventures in Cardplay' by some.
	$26.00		Available now and ready to ship

	Maastricht Challenge
	Tim Bourke
	A set of challenging bridge puzzles drawn from actual deals played at the Maastricht world championships.
	$15.95		Available now and ready to ship

	Great Hands I Wish I Had Played
	Sally and Raymond Brock
	When's the last time you said to yourself, "gee, I wish I could play that last hand over again!"? You'll feel better knowing that experts say the same thing to themselves more often than you'd think. The Brocks tattle on themselves, showing dozens of real-life hands, and showing how they should have been played and why. (And yes, they confess what really happened at the table on each deal, too.) Warning: Out of Print! These are the last two copies I am likely to ever have.
	$14.95		Available now and ready to ship

	Bridge with Another Perfect Partner
	John Carruthers
	Do you have one of those partners who always knows exactly what you did wrong, but never seems to admit to making any mistakes himself? A novel about the trials and tribulations of playing with a know-it-all partner. (And a homage to a long out-of-print P.F. Saunders book on the same theme, published in the UK in the 1970s.)
	$19.95		Available now and ready to ship

	Optimal Hand Evaluation
	Patrick Darricades
	Everything you ever wanted to know, and more, about the various competing point-count methods, from Goren to Cowen to Zar and everyone in between. A few hands from actual play are included as illustrations, but primarily aimed at theorists and simulators, not at casual players.
	$15.95		Available now and ready to ship

	Sixpack
	Allan DeSerpa
	Allan De Serpa has a new idea for how to ask for "keycards and queecards" (the 4 aces, and the 2 kings and 2 queens of the bid suits) after an auction like 1NT-2H(transfer)-2S-3H, and fit it all in below game. There is a similarity to Ken Rexford's Variable Keycard Blackwood, in that the responses are tuned to match the strength that partner has shown (2-4 keycards after a 1NT opening, for instance.)
	$19.95		Available now and ready to ship

	There Must Be a Way
	Andrew Diosy
	[needed]
	$9.95		Available now and ready to ship

	Can You Win the USBC Team Trials 2013?
	Matthias Felmy
	A selection of bidding, play, and defense problems that arose on actual hands in the US international team trials, as analyzed by a rising German star. You can just play along and keep score, rating your plays against what was done at the table, or you can dig deep into the mind of an expert by reading the full analysis of each deal.
	$21.95		Available now and ready to ship

	Playing Suit Combinations
	Fred Gitelman and Jeff Rubens
	Not just a simple handbook of common suit combinations. The introduction summarizes how to calculate the odds, condensed from Jeff Rubens's Expert Bridge Simplified; the rest of the book is a quiz of several dozen tricky combinations. Not for the faint of heart, but it will improve your declarer play!
	$16.95		Available now and ready to ship

	A Switch in Time
	Matthew and Pamela Granovetter
	One of the best books on defensive signals ever written, finally back in print after being impossible to find for almost 20 years. The definitive book on the "Obvious Shift Principle," which clears up confusion about when to encourage or discourage at trick one with marginal holdings in the suit partner led. It is no exaggeration to call Obvious Shift the experts's secret weapon on defense.
	$19.95		Available now and ready to ship

	The MOSSO Bidding System
	Richard Granville and David Burn
	For experts only! A cutting-edge experimental system, with a different spin on the Polish Club (forcing but not strong 1C opening) principle, inspired in part by Fantunes.
	$24.95		Available now and ready to ship

	Battling the Best: My Journey Through the 2014 Reisinger
	Sartaj Hans
	The author describes in detail his experience playing in the Reisinger Board-a-Match Teams, the toughest event in the North American tournament calendar. He covers interesting bidding, defense, and declarer play problems, that arose at his table, as well as sharing the thoughts than ran through his mind at different stages of the contest. A great way to be immersed in the tournament experience for those of us who haven't been there ourselves yet!
	$18.95		Available now and ready to ship

	Advanced Bridge Bidding for the 21st Century
	Max Hardy
	All the bells and whistles of modern 2/1 as played and taught by Max right up to the time of his death in 2002. This was his last book. Additional bidding tools to complement the material in "Standard Bridge Bidding for the 21st Century."
	$20.00		Available now and ready to ship

	For Love or Money: the Life of a Bridge Journalist
	Mark Horton
	[needed]
	$16.95		Available now and ready to ship

	Misdefend These Hands With Me
	Mark Horton
	A sequel to Mark's Misplay These Hands With Me, this featuring hands misdefended by the experts. Look over their shoulders, see where they went wrong, and see if you can spot the clues to avoid falling into the same trap.
	$18.95		Available now and ready to ship

	Misplay These Hands With Me
	Mark Horton
	A book in the Reese "over-the-shoulder" style... featuring entirely hands which were played wrong by good players, followed by an explanation of how the correct play could have been spotted in time with more careful thought.
	$18.95		By special order only

	Misplay More Hands With Me
	Mark Horton
	A sequel to Misplay These Hands With Me, featuring more hands that the experts got wrong at the table, followed by an explanation of how the correct play could have been spotted in time with more careful thought.
	$19.95		Available now and ready to ship

	The Mysterious Multi: How to Play It, How to Play Against It
	Mark Horton and Jan van Cleef
	Complete coverage of all the most common variations of the Multicolored 2D opening. In the same style as Andy Stark's volume on playing the weak notrump. Also discussed in detail are the two-suited 2H and 2S openings popular in Europe among Multi players ("Muiderberg"), and the ACBL-published defenses to the Multi. Don't be afraid of conventions, learn to cope with them, and even embrace them and play them yourself!
	$19.95		Available now and ready to ship

	Building a Bidding System
	Roy Hughes
	The theory behind why some conventions are good and others are bad: why lower bids should show a broader range of hands that higher bids - and how much broader that should be; how to construct a relay system; and other advice for the serious tinkerer with systems.
	$17.95		By special order only

	Card by Card: Adventures at the Bridge Table
	Roy Hughes
	Watch over Canadian expert Roy Hughes's shoulder as he explains his thought processes on some tricky hands, and you too can learn to think like an expert!
	$18.95		Available now and ready to ship

	The Contested Auction
	Roy Hughes
	Roy Hughes talks about what makes a good and a bad bidding convention, and offers suggestions how best to handle some common competitive sequences.
	$24.95		Available now and ready to ship

	Symmetric Relay
	Nick Hughes
	A detailed guide to the Symmetric Relay bidding system, a comprehensive method for revealing one partner's exact distribution to the other with a minimum of memorization effort. The system has developed in New Zealand and Australia and is rarely seen in the USA — but perhaps this will change given the recent liberalization of bidding system restrictions by the ACBL.
	$19.95		Available now and ready to ship

	Deadly Defence
	Wladyslaw Izdebski and Ron Klinger
	An advanced guide to using signals to best advantage and visualizing your partner's hand when you are defendning. One of the very few books to teach and use upside-down signals throghout.
	$22.95		By special order only

	The Power of Positive Bidding: Bidding Secrets of the Italian Champions
	Wladyslaw Izdebski, Wlodzimiers Krysztofczyk, Ron Klinger
	A compilation of the latest bidding methods used by the Italian experts, including a section on "Turbo," the compressed version of Keycard asks that is the latest trend in slam bidding.
	$19.99		Available now and ready to ship

	Fantunes Revealed
	Bill Jacobs
	A compilation of the world-championship-winning methods of Fantoni and Nunes, created by observing thousands of their deals played on Vugraph. A fascinating system for gadget fans even you don't plan to play it yourself. (Fantoni-Nunes were caught cheating soon after this book came out: it's an open question how good their system is when played honestly.)
	$15.95		Available now and ready to ship

	Polish Club International
	Krzsysztof Jassem
	A readable introduction to the world's most popular and successful forcing-but-not-strong club system, as described by a 2010 poll of Polish experts: the Polish equivalent of "Bridge World Standard."
	$19.95		Available now and ready to ship

	Polish Club 2020: Expert
	Krzsysztof Jassem
	A look at the more complicated features of Polish Club, the strong-but-not-forcing club system popular in eastern Europe.
	$25.95		Available now and ready to ship

	Moments of Truth at the Bridge Table
	R. Jayaram
	A collection of deals from real play where expert declarers took seemingly anti-percentage lines and explained their thought processes afterward. Sometimes it's just "table sense," other times there is more going on behind the scenes with the odds than you think! Out of print and hard to find. Retails at $16.95. When my copies are gone they're gone.
	$10.00		Available now and ready to ship

	Master of Bridge Psychology: Inside the Remarkable Mind of Peter Fredin
	Jeppe Juhl
	A biography of Swedish rising star Peter Fredin, highlighting hands against world class competition where psychology mattered more than the simple mechanics of bridge.
	$21.95		Available now and ready to ship

	Eddie Kantar Teaches Advanced Bridge Defense
	Eddie Kantar
	Continues on from where Eddie Kantar Teaches Modern Bridge Defense leaves off. Approachable and entertaining explanation of the fine points of the game. (Do you know what the difference is between playing K-then-Q and K-then-J, when you are leading from KQJxx?)
	$25.95		Available now and ready to ship

	Roman Keycard Blackwood: The Final Word
	Eddie Kantar
	The fifth and (he says) final edition of Eddie Kantar's famous book on Roman Keycard Blackwood. Go beyond "5 clubs shows 0 or 3." This book covers every facet of RKC: how do you ask for the queen of trumps after a 5C or 5D response? Should you show the number of kings or specific kings? 0314 or 1430? When, if ever, does RKC not apply? What suit is trump in ambiguous auctions? Excellent resource for serious partnerships wanting to milk the most out of their ace-asking.
	$23.95		Available now and ready to ship

	The Bridge Philosopher
	James Kauder
	Reprinted and retitled edition of Kauder's classic book Creative Card Play. My personal favorite of all "collections of bridge deals" books and I am delighted to see it back in print. Every one of the hands has a logical but non-textbook solution; he explains the clues from the bidding, play, and his reading of the opponents' habits that guide him to the winning line.
	$18.00		Available now and ready to ship

	Bridge Philosopher 3
	James Kauder
	Volume 3 of Jimmy Kauder's advice on advanced declarer play. Humorous stories about hands where it pays to not just take the first line you see.
	$22.00		Available now and ready to ship

	Bridge Philosopher 4
	James Kauder
	Volume 4 of Jimmy Kauder's advice on advanced declarer play. Humorous stories about hands where it pays to not just take the first line you see.
	$21.95		Available now and ready to ship

	Return of the Bridge Philosopher
	James Kauder
	Another bookful of stories in the same style as The Bridge Philosopher, fifty more entertaining stories from Jimmy Kauder's adventures in the tournament and rubber bridge worlds.
	$18.00		Available now and ready to ship

	Bridge Odds for Practical Players
	Hugh Kelsey
	A short practical guide to finding the best line of play. Starts with single-suit probabilities, and continues with ways to combine your chances, the Rule of Vacant Places, and Restricted Choice.
	$15.99		Available now and ready to ship

	Bridge for the Connoisseur
	Hugh Kelsey
	A collection of 85 deals analyzed by one of the game's greatest writers. Reprint of a 1980s classic.
	$15.99		Available now and ready to ship

	Kelsey on Squeeze Play
	Hugh Kelsey
	Get a classic book at 20% off! Retails for $36.00! A reprint of Kelsey's four classic books on simple, double, triple, and strip squeezes, bound as one volume. An abundance of examples of hands drawn from real play, and a classification of different types of threats and guards. Great if you like collections of interesting hands, or if you prefer to "learn by example" at a laid-back pace how squeezes work.
	$29.99		Available now and ready to ship

	Sharpen Your Bridge Technique
	Hugh Kelsey
	A reprint of a 1981 Hugh Kelsey classic, covering how to attune yourself to the clues you need to make more of your contracts and set more of your opponents'. A peek into an expert's mental processes.
	$15.99		Available now and ready to ship

	Crocs on Squeeze Play, v. 1
	Stephen Kennedy
	A young British international takes you on a guided tour of what Clyde Love called the "hinterland of squeeze territory", sparkling with sharp wit as well as sharp analysis. Coverage of some "old" squeezes that are rarely plumbed in depth like Reese's 'Winkle', and some you've never even heard of before.
	$24.95		Available now and ready to ship

	Crocs on Squeeze Play, v. 2
	Stephen Kennedy
	A young British international continues his guided tour of what Clyde Love called the "hinterland of squeeze territory," exploring ever more exotic end positions. This series may well be the Adventures in Card Play of the 21st century!
	$24.95		Available now and ready to ship

	The Right Bid at the Right Time
	Neil Kimelman
	Third in Neil Kimelman's trilogy of bidding-judgment books, published March 2016. The three volumes are roughly in order of complexity: this one emphasizes tough competitive decisions.
	$19.95		Available now and ready to ship

	The Thin Fine Line
	Neil Kimelman
	A close look at close bidding decisions and how to choose which call is better. Even better than Neil's first, more general, book of bidding advice.
	$19.95		Available now and ready to ship

	The Notrump Zone
	Danny Kleinman
	When should you exercise your judgment to open 1NT on a semibalanced hand? Are some point ranges better than others? It's all in here. Which conventions beyond Stayman and Jacoby Transfers should you use? He gives three separate answers to this one, depending on whether you and your partner want a simple but functional system or the "most detailed system money can buy."
	$18.95		By special order only

	Persistent Human Bridge Errors
	Danny Kleinman and Nick Straguzzi
	Further tales of Chthonic, the perfect bridge-playing computer, and the trouble he has making sense of his human partners, teammates, and opponents. Not just stories - each story has a moral, a lesson about mistakes mere mortals frequently make at the table. Lots of material that didn't appear in The Bridge World!
	$19.95		Available now and ready to ship

	The Principle of Restricted Talent
	Danny Kleinman and Nick Straguzzi
	The adventures of a wisecracking bridge-playing robot and his inventors. Logical solutions to dozens of very difficult cardplay and defense problems, mixed into a series of short stories. One of the best recent contributions to the "bridge novel" genre.
	$18.95		Available now and ready to ship

	Defending Doubled Contracts
	Ron Klinger
	Master Bridge Series. A collection of defensive problems, all doubled contracts. Choosing the right line often requires thinking carefully not just about what declarer has shown in the bidding, but why partner doubled.
	$15.99		Available now and ready to ship

	Playing Doubled Contracts
	Ron Klinger
	Master Bridge Series. A collection of declarer play problems, all in doubled contracts. You are challenged first to decide whether your goal is minimizing undertricks, making your contract, or trying for overtricks to make up for missing slam -- then to find the right line of play.
	$15.99		Available now and ready to ship

	Play With the Champions
	Ron Klinger
	Rare out-of-print collection of bridge hands played by experts in international tournaments.
	$15.95		Available now and ready to ship

	The Power of Shape
	Ron Klinger
	Understand how your distribution impacts the value of your face cards. General theory, advice on when it is right to over- or under-bid, and chapters on how to handle modern bidding tools like the splinter bid. Recently reprinted,and marked down from the $22.95 cover price!
	$19.95		By special order only

	A Bridge to Inspired Declarer Play
	Julian Laderman
	[needed]
	$19.95		Available now and ready to ship

	Good, Better, Best: a comparison of bridge bidding systems and conventions by computer simulation
	Jan Eric Larsson
	Jan has been using computer to help analyze bidding systems since I first corresponded with him on the old rec.games.bridge newsgroup in 1995. He brings his skills to bear on a variety of age-old questions about which bidding treatments are better.
	$19.95		Available now and ready to ship

	Falsecards
	Mike Lawrence
	A rarely-covered aspect of declarer play (and of defence), discussing all the situations when you shouldn't automatically play your lowest card when you can't win the trick, win as cheaply as possible when you can, and so on. The so-called "mandatory falsecards" have to be a part of every good player's technique even if you are not interested in deliberate deception. Recently reprinted, like the other Mike Lawrence classics.
	$21.95		Available now and ready to ship

	The Complete Guide to Passed Hand Bidding
	Mike Lawrence
	Ever wondered just how crazy of openings you can get away with in third seat? Or how your partner should respond after he sees how crazy yours are? This book contains Mike Lawrence's expert opinion on the subject. The expanded 2nd edition adds more coverage of responses to 3rd seat openings -- fit-jumps and other alternatives, in addition to proposed Drury enhancements.
	$21.95		By special order only

	Encyclopedia of Card Play Techniques
	Guy Lev�
	Perhaps the most complete catalogue of declarer-play techniques ever assembled. It opens with a summary of planning the play, then describes and shows an example of every known declarer play maneuver, from the mundane like suit establishment and the different kinds of finesses, through all sorts of endplays and coups to two dozen different kinds of trump squeezes. A great reference for the serious student of the game. List price $34.95! A fantastic collection of hands; I'd hate to see the cover price keep you from reading it.
	$29.95		Available now and ready to ship

	Bridge Squeezes Complete
	Clyde Love
	A reprint and update of the classic analysis of simple, double, triple, and compound squeezes.
	$24.95		Available now and ready to ship

	Test Your Play as Declarer, vol. 1
	Paul Lukacs and Jeff Rubens
	[needed]
	$17.00		Available now and ready to ship

	Bridge Probability and Information
	Robert MacKinnon
	Learn the math behind the simple rules like "eight ever, nine never" and "finesse into the preemptor." The Principle of Vacant Spaces, the Principle of Restricted Choice, and much more. Great emphasis placed on how to think about the hand as a whole, rather than merely looking at suits in isolation to find the best chance.
	$19.95		Available now and ready to ship

	Martens Bridge University series
	Krzysztof Martens
	Any or all of the 15 volumes of the Martens Bridge University series are available by special order. Inquire by email if interested.
	$		By special order only

	Setting Trick: Practical Problems in Bridge Defense
	Ian McCance
	[needed]
	$18.95		Available now and ready to ship

	Competitive Bidding in the 21st Century
	Marshall Miles
	Miles's unique take on when to use modern conventional methods, as well as some old-fashioned bidding judgment. After a 1D opening on your right, would you overcall 1S on KQJx xx xx Axxxx? Marshall Miles might!
	$16.95		Available now and ready to ship

	Its Your Call
	Marshall Miles
	A compendium of Miles's favorite bidding problems, drawn from the bidding panel of ACBL District 23.
	$19.95		Available now and ready to ship

	Modern Constructive Bidding
	Marshall Miles
	An expert gives his opinion on which modern conventions are useful and which aren't. All the popular conventions and system choices are covered: 2/1 Game forcing or not? 1NT forcing or semi-forcing? Fourth suit forcing one round or to game? You may not agree with all of Miles's opinions but he will provide you with food for thought to help you make your own system decisions. One of the very few sources in print to cover some modern conventions like XYZ and Bart.
	$18.95		Available now and ready to ship

	My System: The Unbalanced Diamond
	Marshall Miles
	Marshall Miles describes his own preferred bidding system, featuring a 1D opening that promises a minimum opening and an unbalanced hand without a 5-card major, natural 1H and 1S openings limited to 15 HCP, a weak 1NT opener, and an artificial 1C opening covering 15-20 point hands, with a Standard-American-like 2C opening. Halfway between Standard and a club system, like nothing else you've played against, but all General Convention Chart-legal and playable in ACBL tournaments.
	$18.95		Available now and ready to ship

	Standard Modern Precision
	Daniel Neill
	[needed]
	$19.95		Available now and ready to ship

	Multi-Landy: The Killer Defense vs. 1NT
	David Oakley
	Detailed coverage of the newest trend in overcalling your opponent's 1NT opening, taking over the ACBL by storm after it became a General Convention Chart method in 2015. Particularly important is the discussion of why it's OK to use an artificial double against a weak notrump — waiting for a penalty double is just too rare! Show your shape any time you have sound overcall values, and let your partner pass for penalties with a misfitting decent hand.
	$18.95		Available now and ready to ship

	Adventures in Card Play
	Geza Ottlik and Hugh Kelsey
	The great classic book of exotic cardplay techniques. Recently reprinted. Well worth the $35 cover price, but $5 off if you order it from me!
	$29.99		Available now and ready to ship

	Transfer Responds to One Club with Relays
	Lyle Poe
	One of the hottest trends in US expert bidding is playing transfer responses to a semi-standard 1C opening, usually shifting most balanced hands into 1C so that a 1D opening promises an unbalanced hand. This treatment became legal in most sectional and regional tournaments in 2018 - read about and decide if you want to give it a try!
	$16.95		Available now and ready to ship

	Matchpoint Defense
	Jim Priebe
	A collection of defensive problems, highlighting how matchpoint play differs from teams or social play. Your goal isn't always to set the contract.
	$18.95		Available now and ready to ship

	Modified Italian Canape System
	Ken Rexford
	The first new book written in many years about the mysterious "canape" system: with a 4- or 6-card major, open the major; but with a 5-card suit, open your side 4-card suit first and rebid your 5-card suit. Extensive discussion of the theory behind Rexford's preferred treatment. Guaranteed to introduce you to bidding ideas you've never considered before.
	$14.95		Available now and ready to ship

	Cuebidding at Bridge: a Modern Approach
	Ken Rexford
	The most detailed coverage of modern "Italian style" cuebidding in print. Rexford has some innovative ideas about using the space between 2 and 3 of your major for cuebidding after an auction like 1H-2C-2D-2H if you use the 2/1GF system. If you prefer the traditional "aces first" style of cuebids, I recommend Ron Klinger's Cuebidding to Slams.
	$19.95		Available now and ready to ship

	Variable Keycard Blackwood
	Ken Rexford
	A long overdue improvement to Roman Keycard Blackwood: if you take advantage of knowing how strong responder is, you can use a much more precise set of keycard responses -- "Weak KCB" after you preempt or give a simple raise, "Strong KCB" after you reverse or open 2C.
	$14.95		Available now and ready to ship

	Breaking the Bridge Rules: 1st Hand Play
	Barry Rigal
	[needed]
	$19.95		By special order only

	Deceptive Declarer Play
	Barry Rigal
	[needed]
	$19.00		By special order only

	Deceptive Defense
	Barry Rigal
	[needed]
	$22.00		By special order only

	The Rodwell Files
	Eric Rodwell and Mark Horton
	A compliation of declarer play and defense techniques, with Eric Rodwell's advice on how to recognize each sitation and take advantage of it. The introduction is deceptively simple, the late portions extremely complex.
	$27.95		Available now and ready to ship

	Eric Rodwell's Bidding Topics, Book Two
	Eric Rodwell
	Eric Rodwell writes nine more chapters about common bidding situations in Volume 2 of this popular series on how the experts bid to win. Unlike Volume 1, these aren't all conventions, but get into issues like judging whether a hand is good enough for a reverse.
	$19.95		Available now and ready to ship

	Bidding on Target
	George Rosenkranz and Alan Truscott
	A collection of unusual bidding treatments, ranging from the mundane -- improvements to Stayman, continuations after Roman Keycard Blackwood -- to the exotic, such as a detailed set of relay sequences after a 1NT opening. Many of the treatments are part of Rosenkranz's Romex bidding system.
	$10.95		Available now and ready to ship

	Beat the Experts at Bridge
	Danny Roth
	A collection of 88 hands published in books and newspaper columns that were incorrectly analyzed by the original author. Get to enjoy a laugh at the expense of your favorite columnists and learn even more about the game while you do.
	$20.00		Available now and ready to ship

	Challenge Your Declarer Play
	Danny Roth
	A collection of 60 declarer play problems. Danny is careful not to give away the winning line by leading you up to the key trick and asking what card to play. The problems reinforce the importance of making a plan at trick one: count your winners and losers, carefully choose your goal and find the line of play most likely to enable you to succeed. A steal at $9.95, compared to most recently published quiz books!
	$9.95		Available now and ready to ship

	Don't Be Fooled! Countering Deception at Bridge
	Danny Roth
	A long overdue look at how to cope with your opponent's routine and not-so-routine attempts to throw sand in your eyes. An essential part of the expert's toolbox, but a topic rarely visited by the non-pros.
	$19.95		Available now and ready to ship

	How Good is your Bridge?
	Danny Roth
	An outstanding collection of declarer play and defense problems. The book is divided into four equal quarters: instructional declarer practice hands, a declarer play quiz, instructional defense practice hands, and a defense quiz. Excellent material for both matchpoint and IMP/rubber bridge players: he takes time to discuss when a safety play is available and whether or not it should be taken.
	$18.95		Available now and ready to ship

	Expert Bridge Simplified: Arithmetic Shortcuts for Declarer
	Jeff Rubens
	A tour de force explaining how declarer can estimate the chances of various lines of play suceeding -- not just the basic things like 3-3 breaks, but the chance of a squeeze working because two suits break badly but the same opponent has length in both. Clear logical explanations alternating with challenging practice problems.
	$23.95		Available now and ready to ship

	The Secrets of Winning Bridge
	Jeff Rubens
	A long-awaited reprint and update of one of the great classics. The chapters on hand evaluation alone are worth the price of the book, but there is also great advice about play at both matchpoints and IMPs.
	$23.95		Available now and ready to ship

	Swiss Match Challenge
	Jeff Rubens
	A set of fifty-six challenging problems in bidding, declarer play, and defense, set up as a series of eight seven-board matches against strong Swiss Team opponents.
	$11.95		Available now and ready to ship

	The Weak Notrump: How to Play It, How to Play Against It
	Andy Stark
	The complete guide to the 12-14 notrump opening. "How to Play It" covers transfer-style responses, two-way stayman, adjustments to the rest of your bidding system, coping with interference, and more: "How To Play Against It" discusses reasons why you should defend differently vs. strong and weak notrumps, and offers both a simple and a scientific defense to try. You may also be interested in Mark Horton's companion volume on the Multicolored 2D opening.
	$19.95		Available now and ready to ship

	Strong Club, Unbalanced Diamond
	Bruce Watson
	A new system featuring transfer responses to a strong club and a weak notrump opening, legal for ACBL play under the new Open convention chart.
	$19.95		Available now and ready to ship

	Bridge at the Enigma Club
	Peter Winkler
	A novel that introduces the idea of encrypted bids and signals at the table. These high-powered conventions aren't legal in most live games, but they make for fascinating theory and a great mystery story!
	$18.95		Available now and ready to ship

	Matchpoints
	Kit Woolsey
	Kit Woolsey's classic collection of essays on how on how matchpoint bidding, play, and defense is different from rubber bridge and team games. Topics range from how to choose between 3NT and 4 of a major when you have an 8-card fit, to some controversial suggestions on how often to play Moysian fits. Updated and revised for the 21st century.
	$24.95		Available now and ready to ship

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