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
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
To ruff or not to ruff. The question seems so easy. To draw trumps promptly or is there something else to do first? Declarer has so many options. Ruff in dummy, a ruffing finesse, a crossruff, a dummy reversal, even a trump coup or scoring a trump e...Lasīt vairāk
This is a true story. A young radiologist, fresh out of training, starts working in south Florida but has difficulty establishing himself in a practice. Finally, working alone in west Broward county, he sees the vast empty spaces, west of what is cur...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
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
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
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
Just what is LOL? Yes, a common abbreviation for Laughing Out Loud, and often used to refer to a Little Old Lady, but in bridge it means a Loser-On-Loser play. At times a declarer can improve his/her situation by playing a losing card from one hand o...Lasīt vairāk
This little word is vital in every bridge players lexicon in its entirety, and especially important is the final syllable- TRY. A clear understanding of this topic should be one of the top priorities of every bridge player. When the dummy comes d...Lasīt vairāk
"e;Second hand low"e; and "e;third hand high"e; are adages we learned in Bridge 101 along with others like "e;cover an honor with an honor"e; and "e;always return your partners suit."e; These so-called rules will get...Lasīt vairāk
In this book, we will see a variety of examples of how to unblock your suits and how to block theirs. Mastering these will lessen your frustrations. The plays are easy, its the anticipation in sufficient time that is a good deal more tricky. Im sur...Lasīt vairāk
How much do you really know about finesses? A finesse is one of the most common techniques in bridge and yet one of the most abused. The term "e;finesseaholic"e; describes a player who never met a finesse he/she didnt want to take. So often...Lasīt vairāk
The trump suit adds a dimension that makes bridge so different from other card games. In a suit contract, play is complicated by declarers need to keep control. If control is lost, it may be almost impossible to make proper use of ones strength in...Lasīt vairāk
Bridge is a game of mistakes.The best players make fewer mistakes. Its not a matter of being brilliant The real expert players never make basic mistakes,they keep the ball in the court, in the fairway. Sure there is an occasional hand where they mak...Lasīt vairāk
