Better Bridge with a Better Memory

Author: Ron Klinger
Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
ISBN: 9780304364763
Category : Games
Languages : en
Pages : 96

Book Description
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 welcome variety of topics.' - The Bridge World.

Improve Your Bridge Memory

Author: Ron Klinger
Publisher: Victor Gollancz
ISBN: 9780575056398
Category : Games
Languages : en
Pages : 93

Book Description

Improve Your Bridge Memory

Author: Ron Klinger
Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
ISBN: 9780304361168
Category : Games
Languages : en
Pages : 93

Book Description
Many bridge errors arise from a poor memory, and those who learn to improve their memories will automatically improve their games. This book covers beginner, intermediate, and advanced players; rather than just a course of memory lessons, it helps one learn and remember what is important to bridge players.

Better Bridge with a Better Memory

Author: Ron Klinger
Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
ISBN: 9780575066359
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :

Book Description
Subtitled 'How Mnemonics will Improve your Game'. Good memory is vital in bridge: here is a simple technique for improving recall.

Memory-aids and Useful Rules Flipper

Author: Ron Klinger
Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
ISBN: 9780304368174
Category : Games
Languages : en
Pages : 32

Book Description
This new Fast Fact Finder provides memory-aids for use in bidding and play. It also gives the key numerical Rules which guide players in specific bidding and play situations, an example being the Rule of Eleven used in card play after an opening lead. This Flipper has a very wide appeal and should have a considerable continuing sale to bridge players.

Moonwalking with Einstein

Author: Joshua Foer
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101475978
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 341

Book Description
The blockbuster phenomenon that charts an amazing journey of the mind while revolutionizing our concept of memory “Highly entertaining.” —Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker “Funny, curious, erudite, and full of useful details about ancient techniques of training memory.” —The Boston Globe An instant bestseller that has now become a classic, Moonwalking with Einstein recounts Joshua Foer's yearlong quest to improve his memory under the tutelage of top "mental athletes." He draws on cutting-edge research, a surprising cultural history of remembering, and venerable tricks of the mentalist's trade to transform our understanding of human memory. From the United States Memory Championship to deep within the author's own mind, this is an electrifying work of journalism that reminds us that, in every way that matters, we are the sum of our memories.

Audrey Grant's Better Bridge

Author: Audrey Grant
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780822016663
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 292

Book Description
"This book tells you everything you need to know about the most widely accepted bidding methods. Read about the secrets of hand evaluation that can dramatically improve your game. Learn how to describe your hand to partner so that the partnership can find its way to the best contract. Discover new concepts that keep the bidding conversation straightforward. You'll be confident when you go to your next bridge game because you'll have the solid foundation needed to handle any bidding sequence."--Back cover

Bridge

Author: Barbara Seagram
Publisher: Master Point Press
ISBN: 9781897106112
Category : Contract bridge
Languages : en
Pages : 220

Book Description
Defense is the hardest part of playing bridge, but that doesn't mean that it's impossible to learn. The authors explain how to make a plan as a defender: how to work out from the auction and play what declarer probably has, and which of the strategies available to defenders is likely to be successful.

Last Car Over the Sagamore Bridge

Author: Peter Orner
Publisher: Little, Brown
ISBN: 0316224634
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 195

Book Description
Peter Orner zeroes in on the strange ways our memories define us: A woman's husband dies before their divorce is finalized; a man runs for governor of Illinois and loses much more than an election; two brothers play beneath the infamous bridge at Chappaquiddick. Employing the masterful compression for which he has been widely praised, Orner presents a kaleidoscope of individual lives viewed in startling, intimate close-up. Whether writing of Geraldo Rivera's attempt to reveal the contents of Al Capone's vault or of a father and daughter trying to outrun a hurricane, Orner illuminates universal themes. In stories that span considerable geographic ground -- from Chicago to Wyoming, from Massachusetts to the Czech Republic -- he writes of the past we can't seem to shake, the losses we can't make up for, and the power of our stories to help us reclaim what we thought was gone forever. "A ravishing collection, full of wisdom, grief, beauty, and especially surprise." -- Anthony Doerr, author of The Shell Collectors

How to Escape from a Leper Colony

Author: Tiphanie Yanique
Publisher: Graywolf Press
ISBN: 1555970532
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 207

Book Description
An enthralling debut collection from a singular Caribbean voice For a leper, many things are impossible, and many other things are easily done. Babalao Chuck said he could fly to the other side of the island and peek at the nuns bathing. And when a man with no hands claims that he can fly, you listen. The inhabitants of an island walk into the sea. A man passes a jail cell's window, shouldering a wooden cross. And in the international shop of coffins, a story repeats itself, pointing toward an inevitable tragedy. If the facts of these stories are sometimes fantastical, the situations they describe are complex and all too real. Lyrical, lush, and haunting, the prose shimmers in this nuanced debut, set mostly in the U.S. Virgin Islands. Part oral history, part postcolonial narrative, How to Escape from a Leper Colony is ultimately a loving portrait of a wholly unique place. Like Gabriel García Márquez, Edwidge Danticat, and Maryse Condé before her, Tiphanie Yanique has crafted a book that is heartbreaking, hilarious, magical, and mesmerizing. An unforgettable collection.