Knack Bridge for Everyone A Step-by-Step Guide to Rules, Bidding, and Play of the Hand
by Crisfield, D.; Burakian, Eli; Gorman, StephenFormat: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2010-01-06
Publisher(s): Globe Pequot
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Summary
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. EnterKnack 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, as well as numerous charts and diagrams, it begins with the rules and the fundamentals of bidding, play, defense, and scoring. It then takes the bidding up a notch by introducing more bidding techniques and strategies for winning.
Author Biography
D. W. Crisfield has been playing bridge for about 30 years, seriously for the past 15 years. I have also been teaching bridge for the past 15 years. She recently won the Miles NLM Pairs at the North American Bridge Championships held in Boston and was featured in the Bridge Bulletin—a monthly magazine that is sent to everyone registered with the American Contract Bridge League. Crisfield has written thirty books; this is her first on bridge.
Table of Contents
| Rules of Bridge | |
| Introductory Bidding | |
| Playing a Hand | |
| Scoring | |
| No Trump Openers and Responses | |
| Playing a NT hand | |
| Convenient Minor | |
| Responding | |
| Next Step Bidding | |
| Leads | |
| Overcalls | |
| Doubles | |
| Other Defense Strategies | |
| When to Pull Trump | |
| Preemptive Bids and Responses | |
| Stealing the bid | |
| 2C and responses | |
| Looking for Slam | |
| Other Ways to Show a Big Hand | |
| Resource Directory | |
| Table of Contents provided by Ingram. All Rights Reserved. |
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