Becoming a Bridge Expert

Author: Frank Stewart
Publisher: Master Point Press
ISBN: 9781894154277
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 308

Book Description
A compendium of advice for the improving player from one of North America's best-known bridge teachers and writers. Each tip is bite-sized - 3-4 pages in length - so the reader can dip in briefly and still take away an important idea. As well as the usual sections on bidding, play and defense, the author includes much advice on the psychological aspects of the game, including how to be a good partner. Frank Stewart is one of the most distinguished bridge writers and journalists in North America, with over twenty books to his credit. A major contributor to the Official Encyclopedia of Bridge and a regular writer for the ACBL Bulletin, he is perhaps best-known today as the author of the nationally-syndicated 'Daily Bridge Club' daily newspaper column. He lives in Fayette, Alabama.

How the Experts Win at Bridge

Author: Burt Hall
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780966116700
Category : Bridge whist
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
There are three unique things about this book: (1) It is the first book in about 40 years to deal with the entire game of bridge, (2) It represents the best thinking of modern day experts and (3) It is expecially well organized and easy to read. The book received the 1997 Book of the Year award and continues to be a bestseller at national tournaments

The Cardturner

Author: Louis Sachar
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 140880851X
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 353

Book Description
When Alton's ageing, blind uncle asks him to attend bridge games with him, he agrees. After all, it's better than a crappy summer job in the local shopping mall, and Alton's mother thinks it might secure their way to a good inheritance sometime in the future. But, like all apparently casual choices in any of Louis Sachar's wonderful books, this choice soon turns out to be a lot more complex than Alton could ever have imagined. As his relationship with his uncle develops, and he meets the very attractive Toni, deeply buried secrets are uncovered and a romance that spans decades is finally brought to conclusion. Alton's mother is in for a surprise!

How to Improve Your Bridge

Author: Hugh Walter Kelsey
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Contract bridge
Languages : en
Pages : 191

Book Description

Play of the Hand

Author: Audrey Grant
Publisher: Baron Barclay Bridge Supplies
ISBN: 9780943855127
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 378

Book Description
Focuses on basic concepts of play of hand. Bidding tactics reviewed.

The New York Times Bridge Book

Author: Alan Truscott
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780312331078
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 278

Book Description
A guide to the popular card game includes anecdotes about great players, major tournaments, scandals, and strategies that make bridge so legendary.

The Complete Book on Balancing in Contract Bridge

Author: Mike Lawrence
Publisher: Baron Barclay Bridge Supplies
ISBN: 9780939460700
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
This revised and expanded edition examines bridge auctions where the opponents bid something and you have the opportunity to either let them have it or to balance. The cost of not balancing can be huge, but you must weigh the cost of passing against the cost of bidding and getting a bad result. Lawrence's discussion of hand evaluation and planning a balancing auction goes beyond generic rules. Hundreds of examples help you develop judgment

The Genius in All of Us

Author: David Shenk
Publisher: Anchor
ISBN: 0307387305
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 401

Book Description
"Fresh insights into the nature of exceptional peformance…. A deeply interesting and important book” (New York Times Book Review) that offers a revolutionary and life-changing message on the new science of human potential. Is true greatness obtainable from everyday means and everyday genes? Conventional wisdom says no, that a lucky few are simply born with certain gifts. Now you can forget everything you think you know about genes, talent, and intelligence, and take a look at the amazing new evidence. Here, interweaving cutting-edge research from numerous scientific fields, David Shenk offers a new view of human potential, giving readers more of a sense of ownership over their accomplishments, and freeing parents from the bonds of genetic determinism. As Shenk points out, our genes are not a “blueprint” that dictate individual destinies. Rather we are all the product of interplay between genes and outside stimuli—a dynamic that we can influence. It is a revolutionary and life-changing message.

The Best Bridge Book

Author: Linda Tafet
Publisher: Wheatmark, Inc.
ISBN: 1627877908
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 153

Book Description
When Linda Tafet injured her shoulder and could no longer play golf or tennis, she found a new passion in the game of bridge. She took lessons, and the more she learned the more fascinated she became with the game. Every time she learned something new, she would condense it into her own words on a small index card. Soon, these cards became a stack, and then she combined the stack into a small three-ring binder. When her bridge friends saw what she was up to, they asked her to make them binders as well, and pretty soon she found herself in the handmade book-making business, selling each book for $75 each. After selling more than five hundred of these books, Linda decided she was working too hard and could reach more bridge players if she published her book. The Best Bridge Book is a compilation of her original handmade book, now produced as a paperback. Larry Cohen, a very good friend of Linda's and one of the best bridge teachers in the world, edited her book, ensuring that each lesson is correct and easy to follow. Now all bridge players from beginners to advanced can enjoy and learn from Linda's book.

Bridge

Author: Barbara Seagram
Publisher: Master Point Press
ISBN: 9781894154222
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 230

Book Description
A follow-up book from the author team that produced the award-winning and best-selling 25 Bridge Conventions You Should Know. Aimed at the same novice/social player audience as their first book, this new title deals with competitive auctions in which the opponents have opened the bidding. This is the most complex area of bridge bidding, and has never up to now been dealt with comprehensively in a book that is understandable for non-experts.