From the best-selling book 25 Bridge Conventions You Should Know, "Part 1: Learn these first" includes the following conventions:Chapter 1: Stayman 2♣ response to 1NTChapter 2: Takeout doublesChapter 3: Weak two-bidsChapter 4: 2♣ strong artificial openingChapter 5: ReversesChapter 6: Blackwood and GerberChapter 7: Negative doublesChapter 8: Jacoby and Texas transfersFor the remaining conventions, look for these titles:25 Bridge Conventions You Should Know - Part 2: More Complicated25 Bridg...

Based on the best-selling book 25 Bridge Conventions You Should Know, "part 3: Sophisticated Stuff" includes the following conventions:Chapter 18: LebensohlChapter 19: Reverse DruryChapter 20: Roman Key Card BlackwoodChapter 21: Fourth-suit forcingChapter 22: New minor forcingChapter 23: Ogust responses to weak two-bidsChapter 24: Responsive doublesChapter 25: Lead-directing doublesFor the remaining conventions, look for these titles:25 Bridge Conventions You Should Know - Part 1: Learn Th...

Based on the best-selling book 25 Bridge Conventions You Should Know, "part 2: More Complicated" includes the following conventions:Chapter 9: Jacoby 2NT forcing major raiseChapter 10: Splinter bidsChapter 11: Cuebid raisesChapter 12: BalancingChapter 13: Help suit game triesChapter 14: Control-showing cuebidsChapter 15: Grand slam forceChapter 16: Michaels cuebids and Unusual NTChapter 17: Landy 2♣ over opponents 1NTFor the remaining conventions, look for these titles:25 Bridge Convention...

Did you ever notice how the bridge experts always seem to know where every card is? How their finesses always seem to succeed? How their guesses are nearly always perfect? This book won’t teach you to play quite that well, but it will introduce you to some very simple techniques that the experts use on play and defense. As declarer or defender, counting the hand is the one thing that will help you the most. But how do you keep track of all those cards? This book will show you how — explain...

Short and full of practical examples each book in the 'Bridge Technique Series' takes the reader through the most important aspects of card-play technique at bridge. Where appropriate play is examined from the point of view both of declarer and defenders. Full of quizzes and chapter reviews these award-winning books will also reinforce the bridge concepts you learn. At this price what bridge player could stand not to have all twelve?

Using the same format as The Pocket Guide to Bridge this book will provide a handy pocket summary of a number of popular bidding conventions. In a concise but readable manner it summarizes the ideas presented in 25 Bridge Conventions You Should Know from the same author team a book that is now the bestselling bridge title of the last 50 years (almost 150000 copies sold in four languages).

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Short and full of practical examples, each book in the 'Bridge Technique Series' takes the reader through the most important aspects of card-play technique at bridge. Where appropriate, play is examined from the point of view both of declarer and defenders. Full of quizzes and chapter reviews, these award-winning books will also reinforce the bridge concepts you learn. At this price, what bridge player could stand not to have all twelve?

Short and full of practical examples each book in the 'Bridge Technique Series' takes the reader through the most important aspects of card-play technique at bridge. Where appropriate play is examined from the point of view both of declarer and defenders. Full of quizzes and chapter reviews these award-winning books will also reinforce the bridge concepts you learn. At this price what bridge player could stand not to have all twelve?

Short and full of practical examples each book in the 'Bridge Technique Series' takes the reader through the most important aspects of card-play technique at bridge. Where appropriate play is examined from the point of view both of declarer and defenders. Full of quizzes and chapter reviews these award-winning books will also reinforce the bridge concepts you learn. At this price what bridge player could stand not to have all twelve?

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Short and full of practical examples each book in the 'Bridge Technique Series' takes the reader through the most important aspects of card-play technique at bridge. Where appropriate play is examined from the point of view both of declarer and defenders. Full of quizzes and chapter reviews these award-winning books will also reinforce the bridge concepts you learn. At this price what bridge player could stand not to have all twelve?