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Want to learn to play bridge? Let Mary Ann Dufresne and Marion Ellingsen get you started. You won''t find a clearer, simpler presentation of the basic guidelines. Plus, the authors tell you all about their winning bridge strategy: bid a major whenever you can!Unlike many beginner books, We Love the Majors doesn''t oversimplify the game for ease of consumption. This is an honest presentation of the modern game-complexities and all-but expressed in terms everyone can understand and apply.Want to teach beginning bridge? You couldn''t ask for a better student text. Students and teachers will find hundreds of examples, homework to test student knowledge and practice deals to play. The book includes an introduction to Stayman, transfers, and modern guidelines for competitive bidding. When looking for the right bid, We Love the Majors!

In this book, Ken Rexford introduces the strong club relay system with canapé bidding that he played successfully for years. His approach is novel, but it is also one that is easy to learn and play. Most importantly, the entire system fits within the ACBL General Convention Chart. As with his first book, Cuebidding At Bridge, Ken Rexford spends much time explaining the theory and thinking behind canapé sequences, so that the reader will understand the approach rather than simply memorizing a list of conventions.The author also includes a basic scheme for converting your system from Precision to Canapé, or even from Standard all the way to Canapé, all in easy steps. For those who are intrigued but intimidated by Canapé, this extra material should help to ease the transition.

This text is a compendium of advice for the improving bridge player. As well as sections on bidding, playing and defence, the guide features advice on the psychological aspects of the game, including how to be a good partner.

Designed to appeal to bridge players of intermediate level and above, this guide concerns bidding and the places in the auction that players generally go wrong. Amongst other aspects, the book explores what constitutes a decent opening bid, and why.

This bridge guide takes the reader through the most common causes of errors on defence: taking tricks too early, not cashing out when necessary, not using all information available from bidding and play, careless discarding, and many more.

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 the play in notrump, 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.

This bridge guide presents 50 problems in play and defence taken from tournament play, giving the reader a chance to solve them before any discussion takes place. Each problem is then analyzed to show how the logic of the situation can lead players at any level to the correct solution.

This bridge guide explains in simple terms the techniques that experts use to count suits, high cards and distribution around the table. The authors discuss how, as declarer or defender, it is possible to use the knowledge obtained from counting to gain more tricks.

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

Bill Buttle's 'Out of Hand' cartoon panels appear regularly in a number of bridge magazines, notably the ACBL's monthly Bulletin (the American Contract Bridge League). This is his first collection in book form devoted solely to bridge humour.

An invaluable textbook for bridge teachers and students which gives the near-beginner a chance to practise the principles on which sound bidding is based.

A complete guide to a particularly competitive form of contract bridge - duplicate pairs - which demands a much more risky attitude to the game.

A practical book giving beginners to bridge a chance to practice the principles of sound card play in a series of problem hands, fully-explained solutions and helpful tips.

A revised re-issue of a classic bridge textbook, generally regarded as the definitive guide to the oldest (and most useful) convention in the game - the takeout double.

72 Bridge deals that challenge the reader to either defend or declare.

A guide to the theory and practice of competitive auctions, a critical component of modern Bridge.

An intermediate-level discussion of declarer play in the game of bridge.

An anthology of some of his best and most interesting bridge articles, tips, oddities, and just plain interesting deals and stories, from former Canadian Bridge champion Paul Thurston.

A major contribution to bidding theory, easy to understand and fun to read at the same time.

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

A revised edition of a classic textbook on playing bridge.

Features the hero of "Tales out of School", "A Study in Silver", and "Bridge the Silver Way".