Double, Double, Toil and Trouble | |||
Alex Adamson and Harry Smith | |||
The third installment about bridge in the Land of Oz, following "If I Only Had a Heart" and "Bridge Over the Rainbow." A good mix of moderately hard play problems, dressed up with a story about Dorothy and the Tin Man competing to earn the most masterpoints in a year. | |||
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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 |
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 |
A Taste of Bridge | |||
Jeff Bayone | |||
A new textbook for teaching beginners to play bridge, one step at a time. Twenty-eight easy lessons, intended to be covered over the course of an 8 to 12 week course. Emphasis on play, and having fun, over bidding. | |||
$19.95 | 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 | |||
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Step By Step: Playing Notrump Contracts | |||
Robert Berthe and Norbert Lebely | |||
A reprint and translation of a classic French-language play of the hand textbook, widely respected in Europe but rarely seen in the US until now. | |||
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Step By Step: Playing Notrump Contracts | |||
Robert Berthe and Norbert Lebely | |||
A reprint and translation of a classic French-language play of the hand textbook, widely respected in Europe but rarely seen in the US until now. | |||
$19.95 | Available now and ready to ship |
52 Bridge Mistakes to Avoid | |||
David Bird | |||
The most common bidding, play, and defensive errors made my improving players, and how to spot them. Illustrated with examples from tournaments. | |||
$18.95 | Available now and ready to ship |
Arrow Through the Heart | |||
David Bird | |||
Short stories about Robin Hood and his Merry Men playing bridge against the Sheriff of Nottingham. The reading is lighthearted and the hands are accessible to bridge players of any ability. I especially enjoyed the episodes where a young pageboy is allowed to play bridge against his mentor Robin for the first time. | |||
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Clever Plays in the Trump Suit | |||
David Bird | |||
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15 Winning Cardplay Techniques | |||
David Bird and Tim Bourke | |||
An easy-to-read large-format guide to the basics of good declarer play. A chapter for each of the most common plans for how to make a contract. | |||
$19.95 | Available now and ready to ship |
Robin Hood's Hold-up | |||
David Bird | |||
Another fun novel about the misadventures of Robin Hood and his friends (and enemies) at the bridge table. | |||
$18.95 | Available now and ready to ship |
Planning in Suit Contracts | |||
David Bird and Marc Smith | |||
Part of the new and enlarged "Test your bridge technique" series. A more advanced sequel to the original "bridge technique series" volumes. | |||
$9.95 | 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 |
Getting to Good Slams: 30 Key Ideas | |||
Terry Bossomaier | |||
A collection of 100 slam-zone hands from real play, and a discussion of what slam conventions come up often and what ones don't. Even if you disagree with his conclusions, his "key ideas" are good food for thought for building your bidding agreements in a serious partnership. | |||
$19.95 | 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 |
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 |
Bridge Crosswords 2 | |||
Jeff Chen | |||
Fifty more bridge-themed crosswords from a puzzle-maker whose work has often appeared in the New York Times and elsewhere. Spiral-bound for easy tearing out of individaul puzzles. | |||
$15.95 | Available now and ready to ship |
Bachelor Bridge | |||
Simon Cocheme and David Bird | |||
A reprint of a classic bridge novel, or rather, series of short stories: our hero attempts to partner 26 different women, from A to Z, at the bridge table and away from it... and generally makes a fool of himself both places. | |||
$16.95 | Available now and ready to ship |
Bridge With a Twist | |||
Simon Cocheme | |||
This series of short stories covers the history of bridge, gives some humorous advice about the game, and is fun light entertainment. Easy to read one short chapter, easy to read the whole thing in one sitting! | |||
$18.95 | 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 |
Winners, Losers, and Cover Cards | |||
Ken Eichenbaum | |||
Starts with sound advice on hand evaluation, then proceeds to apply it to many common auctions, including a thorough look at the author's favorite version of 2-way checkback, and good coverage of slam methods including the Serious 3NT bid. | |||
$14.95 | Available now and ready to ship |
It's All in the Game: the Fun Side of Winning Bridge | |||
Robert Ewen and Jeff Rubens | |||
A collection of humorous stories, mostly from the early days of the Bridge World, reprinted in this new large-format volume. | |||
$23.95 | By special order only |
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 |
Elizabeth Flynn | |||
The Eight of Clubs Was Good? Comfort Food for the Bridge Soul | |||
A mixture of stories about the trials of new bridge players, and recipes recommended for your next bridge party. | |||
$12.95 | 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 |
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 |
Bridging Two World | |||
Martin Hoffman | |||
Martin's life story, from concentration camp survivor to European bridge pro and teacher. Emphasis on the history and story, rather than on individual memorable deals. | |||
$21.95 | Available now and ready to ship |
Misbid These Hands With Me | |||
Mark Horton | |||
Another sequel to Mark's Misplay These Hands With Me and Misdefend These Hands With Me, showcasing places where even the experts suffered lapses in judgment. Can you do better? | |||
$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 |
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 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. | |||
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Secrets Your Bridge Friends Never Tell You | |||
Cathy Hunsberger | |||
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$12.95 | Available now and ready to ship |
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 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 |
Polish Club 2020: Standard | |||
Krzsysztof Jassem | |||
A readable introduction to Polish Club, the strong-but-not-forcing club system popular in eastern Europe. If you want a system more precise and more aggressive than Standard American, but not as vulnerable to interference as Precision, Polish is the system for you! | |||
$19.95 | 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 |
Take Your Tricks: 550 Declarer-Play Tips You Can Take to the Bank | |||
Eddie Kantar | |||
The title says it all! Back in print after a very long wait. One of Kantar's most popular books in the 1990s, and the advice on declarer play is as relevant today as ever. | |||
$17.00 | 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 |
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 |
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. | |||
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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 |
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 |
How Good is Your Bridge Hand? | |||
Ron Klinger | |||
A great overview of several different hand evaluation methods, and of the conventions that are used to help apply them (two-way game tries, splinters.) Written from the 4-card major and weak notrump perspective. | |||
$12.95 | Available now and ready to ship |
Improve Your Declarer Play at Notrumps | |||
Ron Klinger | |||
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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 Pass | |||
Ron Klinger and Harold Schogger | |||
Bridge is a bidder's game, and the trend in recent years is all in favor of lighter openings, lighter responses, and wilder preempts. Here is a counterpoint to that trend: learn when it is right to pass — stay low when your side has a misfit, don't balance when it isn't safe to do so, and much more. | |||
$14.95 | Available now and ready to ship |
Useful Probability for Bridge | |||
Julian Laderman | |||
A very readable exposition of how to solve at-the-table problems with the help of probability. He goes out of his way to make the math as painless as possible, and emphasizes situations where a player's experience already guides him most of the way to the answer. Suit breaks, HCP, and much more. | |||
$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 |
The Complete Book on Balancing in Contract Bridge | |||
Mike Lawrence | |||
IN some auctions it is safe to balance with a 4-card suit and a weak hand; in others you should have six or a fairly strong hand! This book helps you know how agressive to be in various balancing situations. Separate chapters for reopening the bidding when an opening bid is passed around, when the opponents find a sit but stop low, when they bid notrump, and when they are in a misfit auction. Newly reprinted edition of a classic book on competitive bidding. | |||
$22.95 | 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 |
Tips on Bidding | |||
Mike Lawrence | |||
A detailed and example-filled tour of some of the most common problems in the uncontested auction: when to raise on 3-card support, how reverses work, when to splinter, and more. | |||
$19.95 | Available now and ready to ship |
Tips on Competitive Bidding | |||
Mike Lawrence | |||
In the same format as his previous | Available now and ready to ship |
Never a Dull Deal: Faith, Hope, and Probability at Bridge | |||
Robert MacKinnon | |||
The sequel to MacKinnon's previous book, Bridge, Probability, and Information. More readable and conversational than the first volume, the emphasis is on illustrating key probability concepts with humorous anecdotes at the bridge table, not on dry theory. | |||
$19.95 | Available now and ready to ship |
The Language of Bidding: Two Over One Game Force | |||
Paul Marston | |||
Australian expert Paul Marston's textbook on the 2/1 system. Especially aimed at players coming from a standard or Acol background without prior 2/1 experience. Familiar material, but a new voice for most American readers. | |||
$23.95 | 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 | |||
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$18.95 | Available now and ready to ship |
Kickback | |||
Robert Munger | |||
A simple readable introduction to "Kickback," a replacement for Blackwood that uses 4S instead of 4NT to ace for key cards when hearts are trump. | |||
$9.95 | Available now and ready to ship |
Standard Modern Precision | |||
Daniel Neill | |||
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$19.95 | 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 |
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 |
Demystifying Defense | |||
Patrick O'Connor | |||
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$16.95 | Available now and ready to ship |
A First Book of Bridge Problems | |||
Patrick O'Connor | |||
A collection of relatively easy declarer play problems. An excellent stepping stone from the "textbook" world to the "quiz book" world for a newer player. The sequel, A Second Book of Bridge Problems, ratches up the level of difficulty a bit. | |||
$15.95 | By special order only |
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 |
When to Draw Trumps | |||
Adam Parrish | |||
The author introduces his process for counting losers and choosing a line of play. That's what drives our decision whether or not to pull trumps immediately: do we need the trumps for something else (like ruffing a loser?) do we need to take a fast discard before driving out a high trump? How will our plan change if trumps break 4-1 instead of 3-2? Fred Karpin's classic book The Drawing of Trumps and Its Postponement (now out of print) was one of the most valuable books on declarer play I read when I first learned bridge. Now this book brings this material to a new generation of players. | |||
$19.95 | 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 |
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 |
Bridge at the Top: Behind the Screens | |||
Samantha Punch | |||
Samantha Punch is a sociologist studying bridge players. This book is a collection of her interviews with the world's top players, giving us a peek into how the experts cope with the challenges of life as a bridge pro. | |||
$22.95 | 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 |
Breaking the Bridge Rules: 1st Hand Play | |||
Barry Rigal | |||
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$19.95 | By special order only |
Deceptive Declarer Play | |||
Barry Rigal | |||
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$19.00 | By special order only |
Deceptive Defense | |||
Barry Rigal | |||
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$22.00 | By special order only |
Eric Rodwell's Bidding Topics | |||
Eric Rodwell | |||
Eric Rodwell writes about ten of his favorite bidding conventions, including two of his own inventions, Support Doubles and Serious 3NT (an essential supplement to italian style cuebidding.) | |||
$19.95 | 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 |
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 |
Focus on Declarer Play | |||
Danny Roth | |||
Learn to avoid common errors in the planning the play of a bridge hand. | |||
$14.95 | Available now and ready to ship |
25 Bridge Conventions: Practice Makes Perfect | |||
Barbara Seagram and David Bird | |||
A quizbook to help students of the game solidify the material in 25 Bridge Conventions You Should Know. | |||
$15.95 | By special order only |
Bidding at Bridge: a Quizbook | |||
Barbara Seagram and David Bird | |||
A collection of bidding problems to reinforce the principles of standard bidding and help a new bridge player develop his judgment. | |||
$15.95 | Available now and ready to ship |
Declarer 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 |
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 |
Planning the Play of a Bridge Hand | |||
Barbara Seagram | |||
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Planning the Play: the Next Level | |||
Barbara Seagram | |||
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Play it Safe! | |||
Barbara Seagram and David Bird | |||
A new declarer play lesson from Barbara Seagram, covering not just "safety plays," but how to choose the best line for a given suit combination to produce a given number of tricks. She also covers MP vs. IMP considerations, and how the play of a suit fits into the whole hand. | |||
$19.95 | Available now and ready to ship |
The Pocket Guide to Conventions You Should Know | |||
Barbara Seagram and Marc Smith | |||
Spiral-bound Reader's Digest summary of "25 Conventions You Should Know." For learnin the conventions I recommend the larger book. The pocket guide is a nice quick reference to take with you when you travel to a tournament to refresh your memory or make sure your partner plays it the same way you do. | |||
$9.95 | By special order only |
Enterprising Bridge Tales: the Original Stories | |||
Marc Smith | |||
A novel about "bridge in the 24th century" on the Starship Enterprice. Star Trek fan fiction mixed with challenging bridge deals. | |||
$19.95 | Available now and ready to ship |
Enterprising Bridge Tales: the Next Generation | |||
Marc Smith | |||
A second novel about "bridge in the 24th century" in the Star Trek world. Federation crew members do battle at the bridge table with Ferengis, Romulans, and the Borg. | |||
$19.95 | Available now and ready to ship |
Keys to Winning Bridge: The Advancing Player's Playbook | |||
Frank Stewart | |||
An interwoven series of hands to help the novice player learn where to focus his attention to solve each deal. If you enjoy Frank's newspaper column, you'll enjoy reading this book, which feels like 100 of his columns strung together. | |||
$22.95 | Available now and ready to ship |
Who Has the Queen?: the Bridge Player's Handbook of Card Reading | |||
Frank Stewart | |||
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$23.95 | Available now and ready to ship |
Bridge at the Breakfast Table | |||
Paul Thurston | |||
Selected articles from Paul Thurston's daily National Post column. A mixture of bidding and play advice, and simply presenting curious deals for your reading enjoyment. | |||
$19.95 | Available now and ready to ship |
2 over 1: A First Course | |||
Bill Treble | |||
Hot off the press in summer 2017, a new book aimed at teaching new bridge players the 2/1 bidding system as soon as they learn to play. | |||
$19.95 | Available now and ready to ship |
Defending at Bridge: A First Course | |||
Bill Treble | |||
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$16.95 | By special order only |
Winning at Matchpoints | |||
Bill Treble | |||
A guided tour of how to think about common matchpoint decisions, illustrated with an abundance of examples. For example, to help you decide whether to invite with 8HCP after partner opens a 15-17 1NT, he shows a dozen example hands and how many tricks each makes. (Spoiler: at MP it's usually better to pass than bid 2NT.) | |||
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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. | |||
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Bridge's First Hippie | |||
Peter Weichsel | |||
Peter Weichsel's autobiography, from learning to play bridge in school (and the impact it had on his grades) to his world championship appearances. His partner, Alan Sontag, wrote a hilarious book 40 years ago, "The Bridge Bum", and here we have a companion volume! | |||
$21.95 | Available now and ready to ship |
How Not to Play Bridge | |||
Mike Dorn Wiss | |||
Not quite> the long-awaited sequel to "Shadow in the Bridge World," but a delightful tale nonetheless: the collected ravings of a stuffy old professor, teaching you all the wrong ways to play. | |||
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The Language of Bridge | |||
Kit Woolsey | |||
Kit Woolsey explains the process of converting an English description of a bridge hand ("5 spades, 4 hearts, 3 diamonds, and a club") into a bidding sequence (opening 1♠, rebidding 2♥ over partner's 2♦, then raising his diamonds at our third turn.) In later chapter, he goes on to exploring the nuances of the auction: why did partner choose this sequence and not that one? | |||
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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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