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Everybody wants to bid slams which is quite surprising since
only about 10-20% of all hands end up in slam. Novices are frightened to
take the plunge and advanced players seem to take the plunge too often.
This book covers everything you would need to bid accurate slams, a
chapter on assessing your prospects, do you have enough tricks and
controls etc. The chapters cover Blackwood in all its forms, interference
during a Blackwood sequence , cue bidding and many other useful gadgets.
The book is for the advanced player and all the ideas are very clearly explained. |
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This book written for the intermediate player covers 50
deals where the reader is presented with typical problems faced at
the bridge table and how to tackle the many No trump contracts that are
likely to occur. The presentation is exemplary and I wish that all bridge
books would adopt this format. As a teaching book these hands are most
instructive and I do not hesitate in recommending this book to both
students and other teachers alike. |
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In January 1992 a challenge match took place in London
when 8 of the worlds best players met in a teams of four where one team
(The Scientists) could play whatever gadgets they wanted and the other
team (The Naturals) were allowed to play without any artificial aids. This
book details what happened in that epic encounter. |
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This book is a sequel to Famous Bidding Decisions by
the same authors. Again the reader is given an opportunity to pit his wits
against those of the experts in championship play. The bidding and how the
first trick is given and then the reader is asked to suggest a line of
play as good as the experts or even better. The experts line is then
revealed. Whatever the outcome the reader will have had an exciting time
going through these hands and hopefully come out of it a better card
player if he absorbs some of the experts lines. |
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Norway's Geir Helgemo is the most outstanding young
bridge player in the world at the moment. Generally speaking, bridge
players will mature in the forties, but Helgemo has managed to reach the
very top of his game before reaching 30. In this book Geir Helgemo
together with Geo Tislevoll, a bridge correspondent in Norway have illustrated
how Helgemo has become one of the best players in the world. We learn how
his mind operates. We see him performing outstanding plays and we learn
from his fellow players how easy he is to play with. If you wish to
improve then buy a copy of this book and try and take in some of his
ideas. |
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In this book, one of the world's top bridge players
chronicles his career from his earliest games in Glasgow to becoming a
world champion. Rosenberg and the flamboyant Zia Mahmood, who also now
lives in the USA, are one of the world's best partnerships. Here we learn
how they first met and started playing together> There are fascinating
and funny anecdotes from Rosenberg's bridge career, his fifteen all-time
favourite hands and many tips and ideas that will help you improve your
own game. Finally he discusses many of the controversial issues that
effect today's tournament bridge scene and offers his own ideas on how to
solve them. |
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Many players are happy to spend their bridge lives repeating
the same mistakes over and over again. This book is not for them but for
those who have a desire for better results. 60 entertaining and
instructive problems give the reader the opportunity to test his skill on
all the most vital aspects of play and defence. . The emphasis is on self
correction. The only way to improve is to keep asking yourself the
"right question". Assuming you can ask the right questions you
are half way there to finding the solution and this book can certainly
help. |
