Better Bridge with a Better Memory 'goes beyond ... wide-ranging advice ... and investigates one specific technique in detail. The method demonstrated is mnemonics, and the author shows how that approach, already widely in use in naming agreements and providing clues to their details, can be applied to every phase of the game. As is often the case in Klinger productions, many examples used to demonstrate the case at hand have unrelated interesting points, and the discussions thus provide a welco...
This companion volume to "Conventional Bidding Explained" explains in clear terms a wide range of techniques available to the declarer. It contains systematic coverage of many of the major techniques and tactics of card play, and includes 20 key coups, squeezes, fonts and plays with a thorough explanation of each. It also features a wide selection of examples to help bridge players brush up on any weak areas of their game. Information is presented for: elimination and avoidance play; blocking an...
More amusing pastiches with a bridge theme - and some original short stories - from the father-and-son team that produced Farewell, My Dummy.
Bidding in the 21st Century (Club, #1)
by Audrey Grant and Betty Starzec
The previous book by this same author team, Planning the Play of a Bridge Hand (978 1897106 51 8), was named the 2010 Book of the Year by the American Bridge Teachers' Association. Building on the success of that title, this book gives near-beginners a chance to practice the principles on which sound declarer play is based: count your winners, count your losers, make a plan. This is not just a series of problem hands, however. Each section contains a brief introduction of its topic, and the id...
Killing Defence at Bridge is one of the great all-time classics of bridge. It carries the mark of a genius and was the first in a series of major books written by Hugh Kelsey, who became internationally recognised as a leading authority on the analysis of bridge. He coupled this incisive thinking with a brilliant skill with words - hardly surprising as he had hitherto only written novels - and made the most complex techniques in bridge sound simple and easy to grasp. Ron Klinger has contributed...
Winning demands control of the bidding. Before a card is played you must fight for the high ground or hustle your opponents beyond their safe level. Pro-active and fearless but not reckless in this hugely exciting partnership arena, you must judge every last auction nuance and, terrier-like, destroy your opponents' communication and confidence whilst enhancing your own. Dodge their snares, resist their ploys but win the high stakes by forcing them to gamble - yourself delivering their misfortune...