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The second in the "Bridge Mystery" trilogy, this book is a mystery and a bridge textbook all in one. Based on the author's own experience and set in and around a Manhattan bridge club, the story includes many real-life bridge characters whose names may be familiar to readers.

An explanation of the different ways to score a game of bridge, and the right way to bid, play and defend in matchpoint scoring.

This is a rare account of the horrors of the WWII death camps from someone who experienced them.

Intended for intermediate bridge players, the books in this series take the reader through the most important aspects of card-play technique. Focusing on entry management, this text is short and full of practical examples, and features end-of-chapter quizzes to reinforce the concepts.

Intended for intermediate bridge players, the books in this series take the reader through the most important aspects of card-play technique. Focusing on planning in suit contracts, this text is short and full of practical examples, and features end-of-chapter quizzes to reinforce the concepts.

Nick Smith’s first book, Bridge Literature, was originally published by Cadogan Books in 1993 and has since been acclaimed as one of the quirky classics of the game. More Bridge Literature takes a similar form, as a set of parodies of well-known works of English literature.King Lear finds himself playing for France, Winnie-the-Pooh makes his first slam and Lady Bracknell proves hard to impress. Sherlock Holmes’ deductive skills fail him for once, Robinson Crusoe takes drastic action and there’s a lot of fumbling under the table at Cold Comfort Farm. More Bridge Literature is an irreverent and humorous take on much-loved literary classics.Most of the deals are also presented in quiz-form. Readers are encouraged to attempt these declarer-play problems before reading the stories in which the deals are located. But be warned — these may be the toughest single-dummy problems ever published! If you solve even half of these, you are a current or future international player.

Expert Slam Bidding for EveryoneUntil now, the Kickback convention has been the purview of the expert community. This book makes Kickback accessible to all tournament players for the first time. The author starts by explaining why Kickback is easier to use and more efficient than Roman Keycard Blackwood. The book addresses such vital issues as setting the trump suit, which strain to use to ask for key cards, the King Ask, the Queen Ask and Control Bidding. Also included are advanced topics such as showing a useful void, Six-Ace Kickback and Exclusion Kickback. A final chapter gives a simple version of the Third-Round Control Ask, vital for top-flight grand slam bidding. With many examples and twelve quizzes - two of them for partners to practice Kickback together - Kickback gives the reader the experience and confidence to use the convention effectively at the table.

June 1822. P.B. Shelley is planning a new bridge book. It will feature the most dazzling, difficult deals ever published, the bridge of the gods. It will also be his manifesto – a defence of bridge...But before Shelley leaves on his ill-fated trip to Livorno, he only has time to send his publisher a short "Declarer Play Problems" pamphlet. Nick Smith, however, has unearthed a series of hitherto unchronicled episodes in the poet's life, which demonstrate where the deals first arose, and what actually happened at the bridge table in each case. Historically accurate and beautifully illustrated, this is a book for fans of classic literature as well as bridge players.

In this text, the authors, two experienced international bridge players and top bridge journalists, share their unique knowledge and experience, while telling the stories of adventures from around the world.