Embark on an exciting journey into the world of bridge with Dini Thorne as your guide. From bidding basics to more advanced play, Dinis friendly advice and clear explanations will have you enjoying this timeless game in no time. Whether youre new t...Lasīt vairāk
Timing is everything. Playing a bridge hand, either as declarer or defender is often difficult enough. But in addition, knowing when to do whatever it is you are supposed to do adds another perspective to the game. Card play includes recognition of d...Lasīt vairāk
This book contains an innovation that makes it much easier to bid slams. This innovation will enable the bridge community to dramatically increase its bidding of grand slams. This book incorporates the 2/1 Game Force bidding system for major suit op...Lasīt vairāk
Squeezes. Just the word strikes fear into the heart of many bridge players. But simple squeezes are actually quite simple. The single or simple squeeze accounts for 90 of squeezes and 90 of this book deals with simple squeezes. If you wish to...Lasīt vairāk
Bridge is a famously challenging card game, one thats 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...Lasīt vairāk
Bridge is a famously challenging card game, one thats 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...Lasīt vairāk
This easy guide to defense, both fun and memorable, will take a newer player quickly up to an intermediate level and an intermediate player to an advanced intermediate level, if not beyond, with all of the tools needed to progress even further. The m...Lasīt vairāk
More often than any other calls in bridge, redoubles produce confusion. When they do, the resulting disasters are more catastrophic than any others. Many doubles originally treated as penalty have been supplanted by conventional doubles. So also ma...Lasīt vairāk
This book gives a comprehensive view of the various types of hands a beginning player might expect to encounter in a tournament. The various categories of hands presented will teach you how to play the first card, how to ruff, how to set up a long s...Lasīt vairāk
Innumerable books have been written on declarer play. Far less attention has been paid by bridge writers to defense, which is the weakest part of most players game. This book presents a series of problems in defensive play, the central theme being a...Lasīt vairāk
Are you a Bridge game fanatic? Do you want to learn new tricks and tactics about Bridge? Well, Beat Your Opponent can help you do all that! It s all you need to learn how to effortlessly win the game! Beat Your Opponent is a book about strategies to...Lasīt vairāk
SUIT PREFERENCE SIGNALSIf there was ever an area in bridge that resembles walking thru a mine field this is it. No topic causes more confusion and arguments than suit preference signals. "e;Partner, I played a deuce. Why didnt you switch to a cl...Lasīt vairāk
How do defenders win trump tricks? Other than having high honors, natural winners, its by getting an early ruff of a short suit. Far more fulfilling and intriguing possibilities arise in poking away at declarers trump suit and plucking out an unex...Lasīt vairāk
This book is about only one thing. Shortness, singletons or voids. Its impossible to overestimate the value distribution plays in bidding accuracy. High cards are nice; anybody can bid games and slams when the high cards are falling out of their han...Lasīt vairāk
Three hundred. Whats so special about the number 300? Its the magic number all serious bridge players seek, often unsuccessfully. It takes three hundred masterpoints of varying types to become a Life Master in the American Contract Bridge League (A...Lasīt vairāk
When discussing declarer play, the first thing I always suggest is for declarer to try to determine what kind of hand he is dealing with. Proper play of the hand starts with planning your play at Trick 1. After identifying/counting your losers, you n...Lasīt vairāk
Card play at bridge embraces both declarer play and defense. Hundreds of books have been written about it. Our approach here, as in our previous books, is to focus on a particular deal type. Repeated experience with a theme makes it easier to recogni...Lasīt vairāk
Bridge is a wonderful game. It is interesting, challenging and frustrating all at the same time. It keeps your brain active and alert and it gives you an opportunity to create new and lasting friendships with like-minded people. "e;It is rare to...Lasīt vairāk
In the earlier days of bridge, a direct cue bid of the opponents opening bid was traditionally played as a strong cue bid, a hand too strong for an ordinary take-out double, and forcing to game. A typical hand was any 4-4-4-1 hand with 18 - 19+ HC...Lasīt vairāk
Becoming a good declarer starts with some basic principles. All the books tell you the same thing; before playing to Trick 1, think and form a plan. But what should you think about? Players often look at a deal and see a new mystery, a complex proble...Lasīt vairāk
