Winning Notrump Leads | |||
Taf Anthias and David Bird | |||
A re-evaluation of opening leads against notrump contracts with the help of computer simulations. Everyone is told "tend to lead a major against 1NT-3NT," but this book will tell you exactly when a 4-card major is a better lead than a 5-card minor, for instance. | |||
$16.95 | Available now and ready to ship |
Winning Suit Contract Leads | |||
Taf Anthias and David Bird | |||
Sequel to Bird and Anthias's book on notrump leads. Results of computer simulations, confirming some classic advice on what to lead, but busting a few myths too. | |||
$18.95 | Available now and ready to ship |
![]() | Almost the Only Bridge Book You'll Ever Need (volume 1) | ||
Randy Baron | |||
A collection of short 2- or 3-page tips from a dozen different experts. Review everything from the Rule of 15 for 4th-seat opening to advice on ethics and the care and feeding of partners. | |||
$19.95 | Available now and ready to ship |
![]() | Almost the Only Bridge Book You'll Ever Need (volume 2) | ||
Randy Baron | |||
A second collection of essays on all aspects of the game. These are a little bit more in-depth than the first book, 5 to 10 pages on how to choose the right bidding conventions and lead agreements for a partnership and how to play the play and defense. | |||
$19.95 | Available now and ready to ship |
![]() | Defensive Signaling | ||
David Bird and Marc Smith | |||
Bridge Technique Series. | |||
$9.95 | Available now and ready to ship |
![]() | Planning in Defense | ||
David Bird and Marc Smith | |||
Bridge Technique Series. | |||
$9.95 | Available now and ready to ship |
![]() | Safety Plays | ||
David Bird and Marc Smith | |||
Bridge technique series. | |||
$7.95 | Available now and ready to ship |
![]() | Complete Book of Opening Leads | ||
Easley Blackwood | |||
One of the classic books on defense: complete coverage of how to decide which suit and which card to lead at trick one. A special section discusses new innovations in leads, compares them with traditional methods, and explains the rationale behind principles like leading your fourth-highest card from a long suit. | |||
$17.95 | Available now and ready to ship |
![]() | Demon Defense and Demon Doubling | ||
Augie Boehm | |||
Watch over the shoulder as the Professor's timid student Sally Fourth learns to become an agressive defender who can't be pushed around by her opponents. In the same conversational style as Augie's monthly columns in the Bridge Bulletin. | |||
$13.95 | 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 |
![]() | Leading Questions in Bridge | ||
Sally Brock | |||
An opening-leads book with a twist. It has a chapter for each of the common nuggets of opening-lead advice: fourth from your longest and strongest against notrump, singleton against a trump contract, and so on - and then examines each of these in detail, showing several examples where the "nursery rhyme" is right and where it is wrong, explaining how to tell the difference. | |||
$17.95 | Available now and ready to ship |
A Switch in Time | |||
Matthew and Pamela Granovetter | |||
A long-awaited reprint of one of the best books on defensive signals ever written. The definitive book on the "Obvious Shift Principle," that 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 |
![]() | 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 |
![]() | 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 |
![]() | 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 |
![]() | 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 |
Defensive Tips for Bad Card Holders | |||
Eddie Kantar | |||
Over 500 one-line to one-paragraph morsels of advice on how to handle particular defensive situtations. Everything from how to interpret declarer's bidding to how to know what signal to give, to when to lead low from KQTxx instead of top of the sequence. Reprinted after a long wait! | |||
$23.95 | By special order only |
Kantar for the Defense, v.1 | |||
Eddie Kantar | |||
A hundred practice problems to hone your defensive judgment. Great bridge advice and classic Kantar wit on every page of hints and answers. | |||
$10.00 | Available now and ready to ship |
Kantar for the Defense, v.2 | |||
Eddie Kantar | |||
100 more practice hands to improve your defense. Newly reprinted in a more readable format than the 1970s-era edition. | |||
$19.95 | Available now and ready to ship |
![]() | Eddie Kantar Teaches Modern Bridge Defense | ||
Eddie Kantar | |||
An updated and reorganized rewrite of Kantar's classic 1974 "Bible of defense." Perhaps the most readable and enjoyable intermediate defense book on the market today! | |||
$25.95 | 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 |
Dynamic Defense | |||
Mike Lawrence | |||
[needed] | |||
$14.95 | Available now and ready to ship |
![]() | The Complete Book of Opening Leads | ||
Mike Lawrence | |||
A somewhat different approach to opening leads: broken down by type of auction. He explains what sort of lead works best according to what sort of hand the opponents are likely to have - even describes a few situations where he'll choose what suit to lead without regard to what's in his own hand! All the familiar rules about which card to lead from a suit are covered too, of course. | |||
$19.95 | By special order only |
![]() | 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. | |||
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Setting Trick: Practical Problems in Bridge Defense | |||
Ian McCance | |||
[needed] | |||
$18.95 | Available now and ready to ship |
![]() | Card Play Technique, or the Art of Being Lucky | ||
Victor Mollo and Nico Gardener | |||
An old classic that has long been out of print. A humorous and accessible guide to all of the standard techniques, from simple to advanced. Declarer play and defense advice in alternating chapters. | |||
$22.95 | Available now and ready to ship |
Defending Together | |||
Freddie North | |||
A simple and readable guide to common defensive situations, illustrating standard carding agreements with examples. | |||
$15.00 | Available now and ready to ship |
Demystifying Defense | |||
Patrick O'Connor | |||
[needed] | |||
$16.95 | Available now and ready to ship |
Back Through the Pack | |||
Julian Pottage | |||
An homage to Robert Darvas's Right Through the Pack. Each of the 52 cards in the deck narrates two favorite deals in which the key play involves that card.
SHIPPING NOTE: Large format book, will not fit in a USPS flat-rate envelope. | |||
$19.95 | Available now and ready to ship |
![]() | Matchpoint Defense | ||
Jim Priebe | |||
[needed] | |||
$18.95 | New shipment expected soon |
![]() | Thinking on Defense: the Art of Visualization in Bridge | ||
Jim Priebe | |||
One of my favorite books on defense. Not a set of rules to follow; it is practice visualizing partner's and declarer's hands, and focusing on the key features of a deal to defend it well. | |||
$18.95 | Available now and ready to ship |
![]() | Breaking the Bridge Rules: 1st Hand Play | ||
Barry Rigal | |||
[needed] | |||
$19.95 | 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 |
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 | New shipment expected soon |
![]() | 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 |
![]() | 25 Ways to Be a Better Defender | ||
Barbara Seagram and David Bird | |||
The last book in the 25 Steps series. Tips on leads, signals, planning the defense, and more. | |||
$19.95 | Available now and ready to ship |
Defensive Play at Bridge: a Quizbook | |||
Barbara Seagram and David Bird | |||
A great set of practice hands for the novice to intermediate player. Not impossibly hard problems, bread and butter hands to make sure you are focusing on planning the way well. | |||
$15.95 | Available now and ready to ship |
Who Has the Queen?: the Bridge Player's Handbook of Card Reading | |||
Frank Stewart | |||
[needed] | |||
$23.95 | Available now and ready to ship |
Defending at Bridge: A First Course | |||
Bill Treble | |||
[needed] | |||
$16.95 | By special order only |
![]() | Defense at Trick One | ||
David Weiss | |||
A challenging book, covering estimating declarer's likely winners and losers, interpreting partner's lead, and choosing the goal for the defence. It will make your brain hurt but it will improve your game dramatically! Also, a rare source of information about "parity leads" vs. suit contracts. These go a step further than third-and-fifth leads, highest card you can afford from an even number and lowest from an odd number. More distributional information, though sometimes less high-card information, than standard leads. | |||
$16.00 | Available now and ready to ship |
Partnership Defense in Bridge | |||
Kit Woolsey | |||
Thorough coverage of all three common types of signals, attitude, count, and suit preference. Many example hands showing each type of signal in action, and test questions asking you to interpret your partner's spot cards.
Recommended for established partnerships after you have already mastered basic signalling agreements. | |||
$14.95 | By special order only |
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