How to Play a Bridge Hand

Author: William S. Root
Publisher: Crown
ISBN: 0307774457
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 321

Book Description
Neither for beginners nor for experts but for the 90 percent of players in between, How to Play a Bridge Hand includes more than 300 of bridge master William Root's favorite hands. Hailed by the American Bridge Teachers' Association as the "Book of the Year." Line drawings.

Planning the Play of a Bridge Hand

Author: Barbara Seagram
Publisher: Master Point Press
ISBN: 9781897106518
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 236

Book Description
This book, starting from the basics, explains how to make a plan as a declarer. The reader learns how to recognise which technique to apply on a given deal, both in notrump contracts and suit contracts.

Watson's Classic Book

Author: Louis H. Watson
Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks
ISBN: 9780064632096
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 504

Book Description
This book, by one of the first and foremost authorities on contract bridge, is regarded as the classic exposition of playing strategy. Practically all variations of play, both in attack and in defense, are explained and illustrated in it.

Beginning Bridge

Author: Barbara Seagram
Publisher: Master Point Press
ISBN: 9781897106334
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 220

Book Description
Written for complete beginners, this book is based on material that Barbara Seagram uses in her own classes to introduce hundreds of new players to the game every year. The book will take readers to the point where they can enjoy a social game with friends or begin to explore their local bridge club.

How to Defend a Bridge Hand

Author: William S. Root
Publisher: Three Rivers Press
ISBN: 9780517883938
Category : Bridge
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
This book is a comprehensive work covering every angle in defending bridge hands. As a bonus, there is a section on many of the lead and signal conventions practiced in expert circles.

The Play of the Hand

Author: William S. Root
Publisher: Robert Hale
ISBN: 9780709046639
Category : Bridge whist
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
This work shows how to play a hand of bridge, and is intended for both the amateur and professional bridge player. It includes the author's favourite 300 bridge hands, collected over 30 years.

How to Improve Your Bridge

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

Book Description

Card Play Technique

Author:
Publisher: Batsford
ISBN: 1849940541
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 384

Book Description

Planning the Play

Author: Barbara Seagram
Publisher: Master Point Press
ISBN: 9781771400398
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 210

Book Description
Seagram and Bird's Planning the Play of a Bridge Hand was named Book of the Year in 2010 by the American Bridge Teachers' Association. It introduced the basic principles of how to go about making a plan as declarer for beginning and improving players, and is a popular text for bridge teachers. This sequel extends the concept to more complex situations, and covers ideas such as safety plays, avoidance play, trump control, dummy reversal, and endplays. It will appeal to players who have a good grasp of the basics of declarer play, and are looking to improve from there. Book jacket.

Bridge for Everyone

Author: D. W. Crisfield
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1493069586
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 257

Book Description
Bridge is a famously challenging card game, one that’s next to impossible to learn without a whole host of visual aids. But books on the subject all too often seem to ignore this. Enter Bridge for Everyone, which takes a step-by-step, visual approach to explaining the game clearly to beginners and intermediates. With 400 full-color photos, it begins with the rules and the fundamentals of bidding, play, defense, and scoring. Not only does it give you what it takes to hold your ground no matter what your hand, it then takes the bidding up a notch by introducing more techniques—and strategies for winning.