How to Play Bridge with Your Spouse and Survive

Author: Roselyn Teukolsky
Publisher: Master Point Press
ISBN: 9781894154505
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 196

Book Description
Even social bridge can be like a roller coaster, where partners rocket up and down together from euphoria to 'you idiot' - while club and tournament bridge are worse still. Indeed, when a married couple play bridge together, they tend to drag the marriage along with them - for better or worse. For the answer to the social dilemma of how to survive bridge games with your spouse, read this book. You will learn to deal with such situations as premarital bridge, bridge with another couple, disaster recovery, romantic weekends, mid-life crises and even children as the critical phases of a bridge marriage are subjected to Ms. Teukolsky's witty and engaging analysis and advice. Roselyn Teukolsky Before her retirement, Roselyn Teukolsky taught math and computer science at Ithaca High School in upstate New York. She is married to her favorite bridge partner, and they have two daughters. Formerly a regular contributor to various bridge magazines, she is working on a novel that has nothing to do with bridge.

How to Improve Your Bridge

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

Book Description

Bridge

Author: Andrew Robson
Publisher: Collins
ISBN: 9780007234028
Category : Card games
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
"Thinking about learning bridge but don't know the basics? Want to be able to play a social game? Collings need to know? Bridge starts from scratch to teach you how to play and enjoy the ever popular game of bridge."--Back cover.

Help Suit Game Tries

Author: Patty Tucker
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780615797083
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 28

Book Description
60 hands to practice asking for help as well as responding to a Help Suit Game Try. Includes practice identifying when, and how, to respond with an alternate suit when lacking help in the requested suit.

The Bridge Player's Bedside Book

Author: Tony Forrester
Publisher: Master Point Press
ISBN: 9780969846185
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 264

Book Description
The ultimate collection of bridge stuff, with something for everyone from the beginner to the expert. Humour, mystery, quizzes, history, biography -- it's all here. Over fifty world-class contributors, including Eddie Kantar, Alfred Sheinwold, Ron Klinger, Phillip Alder, Albert Dormer, and many more. Illustrated throughout, including elegant Fougasse cartoons.

Playing with the Bridge Legends

Author: Barnet Shenkin
Publisher: Master Point Press
ISBN: 9781894154215
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 244

Book Description
Since winning the world's most prestigious pairs event in his early twenties, with the equally precocious Michael Rosenberg, Barnet Shenkin has continued to build a an impressive bridge career. Over the last 25 years, he has had the opportunity to play with and against some of the best in the world, and in this book he recounts his favourite hands and stories. While much of his early career was based in Scotland and England, Barnet now lives in Florida and is becoming well-known on the US tournament scene. The book comes to a climax with the US team's record-breaking world title win in January 2000, an event which Barnet covered as a journalist.

Bridge

Author: Joseph Bowne Elwell
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bridge whist
Languages : en
Pages : 158

Book Description

Play Or Defend?

Author: Julian Pottage
Publisher: Master Point Press
ISBN: 9781894154550
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 148

Book Description
This is an unusual problem book in the style of Diosy's There Must Be a Way, in that the reader is shown all four hands and asked whether declarer or defense should prevail with best play. A fascinating challenge for the advancing player.

Inferences at Bridge

Author: Marshall Miles
Publisher: Master Point Press
ISBN: 9781894154512
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 214

Book Description
To be successful, a bridge player has to think like a detective, tracking down the distribution of the unseen hands. Although many players are oblivious to them, the tell-tale clues are there, just waiting to be noticed. They are there, just waiting to be noticed. They are there in the auction and in the opening lead. Every time a defender plays a card, declarer receives information. Similarly, everything that declarer does can be turned to advantage by alert defenders. There is even vital intelligence to be gained by thinking about what a player does not do! In this book, you will learn where to look for these clues, and more importantly, how to draw the correct inferences from them. From there, it is only a short step to making bids and plays based on those inference, and thereby becoming a much better player.

Pathways to Better Bridge Defense

Author: Danny Roth
Publisher: Master Point Press
ISBN: 9781894154543
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 170

Book Description
So you tend to be dealt very bad hands. I know exactly you feel! But, facing the facts of life and recognising that it is not your fault, you are going to have to accommodate this failing and improve your defence. It is a hard part of the game; even in international competitions, the standard of defensive play is, to put it kindly, modest. Yes, you will get plenty of reports of brilliances involving spectacular switches, deceptions, unblocks and discards of honours. But for every one of those, there are countless others in which the display would disgrace any beginners' class. I am going to assume that you are a regular club or tournament player who knows the basics of defence but who comes unstuck when it comes to situations where you have to work the hand out in detail. This book will help you to improve dramatically in this area. -- Danny Roth.