Defending Doubled Contracts

Author: Ron Klinger
Publisher: Peter Crawley
ISBN: 9781474600682
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Having doubled the opponents, you now have to find the best way of enforcing your call. Are the odds so close that defeating the contract is the over-riding priority? But if the opponents' intention were to deprive you of a certain game you should be looking to inflict severe penalties. These are the sort of questions that will face you in this quiz book of bridge problems. The deals have been chosen from major national and international championships. In almost every case you have the chance to do better than the defenders did at the table. As long as you tackle the problems with zeal and determination, your own defence is bound to improve, even if you do not find the best answer every time.

Demon Defense and Demon Doubling

Author: Augie Boehm
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780972806145
Category : Contract bridge
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Doubling for penalties increases the stakes and raises the blood pressure. For this you need confidence, and that is where tight defense plays a crucial role. Good defenders risk more penalty doubles. Demon - Doublers are not born; they rise from the ranks of Demon ? Defenders. That is why this book begins with defense, to build a confident foundation for doubling. A sound bidding style also helps: it inspires confidence to know that partner has his bids.This is not a book for beginners; I assume you know your basics about leads and signals. It teaches you how to use defensive information. The Socratic method (constant questioning) that I use promotes logical thinking in a way that promulgating rules cannot.By the end of Part I, as a graduate Demon Defender, you should be primed for the adventurous world of penalty doubles. Part II explains when to double (and when not to) and shows how defending doubled contracts, especially partials, has a rhythm of its own. When you have absorbed the lessons in this book, be prepared for a change in your bridge life. You will win more, a lot more.

Competitive Bidding in the 21st Century

Author: Marshall Miles
Publisher: Master Point Press
ISBN: 9781894154130
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 260

Book Description
In this book, Miles addresses the complex arena of competitive bidding methods for the more advanced player. He discusses current thinking, and recommends methods which will continue to be playable as bridge enters its second century. This book will appeal to fairly serious players only. There are two earlier books on this topic by the same author, 5 and 10 years old respectively, and therefore superseded by this new work.

Defending Freedom of Contract: Constitutional Solutions to Resolve the Political Divide

Author: Patrick Bohan
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1684703271
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 424

Book Description
The progressive movement that began in the late nineteenth century was a nonviolent coup d tat changing the United States of America from a republic that promoted equal rights for all to a democracy where the majority rules. As a result, moral and social justice was and is used by the federal government to protect the rights of some while mitigating the rights of others. Patrick Bohan, who has studied constitutional law in depth, examines the revolution in detail in this treatise, demonstrating how freedom of contract can be applied to protect the fundamental rights of each citizen equally. The author evaluates hundreds of laws, cases, and examples of justice gone wrong for issues such as slavery, abortion rights, elections, welfare rights, free speech, freedom of religion, civil rights, property rights, contract rights, gay rights, alien rights, and other important topics that polarize Americans.

Defending at Bridge

Author: Bill Treble
Publisher: Government Printing Office
ISBN: 9781771400367
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 160

Book Description
No bells or whistles, just the plain, simple stuff to get you started on the road to becoming a good defender. In eight easy lessons, this book coves the things you really need to know: opening leads and signaling against notrump and suit contracts, second and third-hand Play, the Rule of Eleven, discards, and basic strategy. Quizzes and example hands make the whole process of learning both fun and productive. Praise for Bill Treble's 'Getting into the Bidding', An excellent intermediate-level book covering contested auctions. The focus is on providing a foundation for choosing and using methods - which are available, which are popular, and what are the trade-offs among them. The Bridge World Book jacket.

Guide to Better Duplicate Bridge

Author: Ron Klinger
Publisher: Mariner Books
ISBN: 9780395791493
Category : Duplicate contract bridge
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
The Australian Grand Master and a World Bridge Federation World Master describes conventions of the game and covers the profitable and unprofitable sides of their use.

Defense in the 21st Century

Author: Audrey Grant
Publisher: Baron Barclay Bridge Supplies
ISBN: 9780939460656
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
This is the 3rd in the American Contract Bridge League's series of bridge books for beginning and advancing players. Successfully used for over 20 years, this edition has been updated to reflect modern theory. Lessons include Opening Leads vs. Notrump Contracts, Opening Leads vs. Suit Contracts, Third-Hand Play, Second-Hand Play, Defensive Signals, Developing Defensive Tricks, Interfering with Declarer, Making a Plan, and the new bonus lesson on Negative Doubles.

Matchpoint Defense

Author: Jim Priebe
Publisher: Master Point Press
ISBN: 9781897106129
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 200

Book Description
"If defence is the hardest part of playing bridge (and it is!) then defending at matchpoint scoring is the toughest challenge a player can face. Every trick matters, irrespective of the contract, and every decision is potentially critical. In his previous book, "Thinking on Defence", Jim Priebe introduced the idea of visualization, picturing likely hands for declarer and basing defensive strategy on those. In this book, he show how to apply the same methods when playing in matchpoint events, which means essentially every pairs competition."--Publisher description.

Partnership Defense in Bridge

Author: Kit Woolsey
Publisher: Baron Barclay Bridge Supplies
ISBN: 9780910791687
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 303

Book Description
A detailed discussion of signals, leads, matchpoints, defensive conventions and protecting partner.

2/1 Game Force a Modern Approach

Author: NEIL H. TIMM, PH.D.
Publisher: Trafford Publishing
ISBN: 1490724427
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 519

Book Description
The 2/1 Game Force bidding system is an improvement over the Standard American System that has been in effect and played by bridge players for many years. The advantage of the 2/1 system is that it allows the partnership to know that game is possible with only a single bid. In this book, I have tried to present the fundamental aspects of the bidding structure for playing a "pure" Two-Over-One Game Force system of bidding. In this book, I have tried to change behavior by presenting a series of bids geared toward the 2/1 bidding structure that includes Bergen, Reverse Bergen, and Combined Bergen Raises, inverted minor suit raises with crisscross and flip-flop, cuebidding, modified scroll bids, and many more methods not used in Standard American or Precision. In the fourth edition, the Minorwood Convention has been expanded and several variations of the Flannery Convention are included in this edition. I have added the Hello and SCUM conventions used to interfer over strong notrumps and a Modified Landy convention designed to compete over partnerships that employ a weak notrump bid. The Equal Level Conversion (ELC) double is discussed in Chapter 6 and additional material on slam bidding has been added to Chapter 3. The material on two-way new minor forcing and the Gazilli Convention has been expanded upon in Chapter 1 and Jacoby transfers with a superaccept structure has been added to Chapter 2. Finally, a new chapter that reviews the new Italian System of bids called Fantunes has been included in this edition. The System has been modified to be in compliance with the General Convention Chart.