How to Play a Bridge Hand

Author: William S. Root
Publisher: Crown
ISBN: 0307774457
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 320

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.

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.

How to Improve Your Bridge

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

Book Description

Countdown to Winning Bridge

Author: Tim Bourke
Publisher: Master Point Press
ISBN: 9781894154055
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 220

Book Description
Did you ever notice how the bridge experts always seem to know where every card is? How their finesses always seem to succeed? How their guesses are nearly always perfect? This book won't teach you to play quite that well, but it will introduce you to some very simple techniques that the experts use on play and defense. As declarer or defender, counting the hand is the one thing that will help you the most. But how do you keep track of all those cards? This book will show you how - explaining the tricks of the trade, and helping anyone who can count to thirteen to become a much better player. Full of practical examples of how to apply the information you get from counting, this book is sure to improve your game.

Contract Bridge for Beginners

Author: Charles Goren
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0671210521
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 164

Book Description
Here is the first book on Contract Bridge for beginners which introduces them at once to the generally accepted Point Count method of bidding used by the experts. Written by the leading authority, the foremost teacher, and the most successful bridge player in the world, it will prove a boon to the novice and the average bridge player alike.