This is a collection of the best hands which have appeared in E.P.C Cotter's weekly column in "The Financial Times". The majority of the hands are from rubber bridge of which the author is an exponent. The reader is given an insight into the workings of the mind of a master player as he plans his strategy. The book is designed to appeal to bridge-players of all levels. There is a chapter on the finesse which introduces novel concepts, explaining the finesses which are free, indifferent or obligatory. In the final chapter, the author recounts some of the more humorous episodes which have taken place in a lifetime of rubber bridge, and we make the acquaintance of the Colonel, Norman and Charlie, characters the like of whom are known to bridge-players throughout the world.
- ISBN10 0709057431
- ISBN13 9780709057437
- Publish Date 31 July 1995 (first published 6 October 1977)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 19 September 2009
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher The Crowood Press Ltd
- Imprint Robert Hale Ltd
- Edition New edition
- Format Paperback (UK Trade)
- Pages 176
- Language English