Bridge books and supplies - Defense

Bridge Books - Defense

	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

	Counting at Bridge
	Dianne Aves
	A beginner's introduction to the importance of counting the high-card points and the distribution of the unseen hands in order to delcare and defend well. Much easier than the more advanced counting books like Lawrence's How To Read Your Opponents' Cards.
	$17.95		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
	One of the best books on defensive signals ever written, finally back in print after a long wait (the original 1996 edition is hard to find.) 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

	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

	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		Available now and ready to ship

	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
	Look over Mike Lawrence's should as he defends several dozen bridge hands, and hear the thought process he uses to (usually!) find the winning defensive line. A recurring theme is the need to visualize the unseen hands, not just blindly follow the standard rules like "second hand low" or "always return partner's lead."
	$14.95		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

	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. If someone recommended Watson's Play of the Hand to you and you found it too dry, try Mollo instead!
	$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
	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

	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		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

	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

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