Bridge books reviewed - 19

             
  "How the Experts Win at Bridge" by Burt and Lynn Hall is a well presented and well written large size book which covers many aspects of bridge skills. Numerous references to the great texts that have gone before are also included.
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  "The Power of Shape" by Ron Klinger helps you to understand how your distribution impacts the value of your honour cards. There is general theory, advice on when it is right to over bid or under bid, and chapters on how to handle more modern bidding tools such as splinter bids.
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Guide to Better
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Ron Klinger
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"Guide to Better Card Play" by Ron Klinger covers both declarer play and defense phases equally, with tutorials, summaries, reviews, quizzes, example deals and an appendix that enables your foursome to set up the practice deals yourself. The Bridge World magazine wrote that this book is an elementary-intermediate textbook on declarer play and defense. Appropriately, the two phases of the book receive equal attention. The book can be used either as a self-teacher or as the basis of a series of lessons. In addition to the tutorial material, which is comprehensive, careful and instructive, the work is filled with summaries, reviews, quizzes and example deals; there is even an appendix that allows your bridge foursome to set up the practice deals yourself.

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This is how Danny Roth introduces his book "Focus on Bidding": -
This is not a book about systems, nor is it a book about conventions (although I confess I shall attempt to persuade you to adopt one or two in the course of it). This is a book about bidding and the places in the auction that we (and I use the word advisedly) go wrong. I don't care whether you prefer to play a weak or a strong notrump, or eight-card majors, or the Purple Spotted Forcing Club. But I do care about how you decide when to bypass a major to bid one notrump, or what constitutes a decent opening bid, and why, and what sequences you regard as forcing. You see what I mean about 'bidding' as opposed to 'system'?

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For most bridge players, defence is the hardest part of the game. In this book "Focus on Defence", acclaimed British author Danny Roth takes his readers through the most common causes of errors on defence: taking tricks too early, not cashing out when necessary, not using all the information available from the bidding and play, not making the most of the defensive trump holdings, careless discarding, and many more. He explains how to recognize the dangers, and how to handle each of them correctly. The situations he describes are encountered every day; careful study of the examples in this book will make the reader a better card player, and improved scores will certainly follow.

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Focus on Declarer Play
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Danny Roth
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For most intermediate bridge players, declarer play is both fascinating and challenging, but too often they are left after a hand is over with the sinking feeling that they could have done better. In his book "Focus on Declarer Play", Danny Roth takes his readers through the most common causes of errors on play: mishandling communications, making errors involving trumps, failing to take advantage of all possible chances, and many more. He explains how to recognize the danger signals, and how to avoid the pitfalls. The situations he describes are encountered every day; careful study of the examples in this book will make the reader a better card player, and improved scores will certainly follow.

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"Plan Before You Play" by Howard Ringel contains fifty instructive deals that focus on how an expert analyzes the opening lead and plans the probable play of the hand before playing to trick one.

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  "Bridge Endplays for Everyone, Including You" by David Bird is a guide to executing endplays. It is aimed at the improving player and has clear instructions and numerous example deals. It demonstrated that endplays really are within the capabilities of the average player.
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  These three books by Harry Lampert, "The Fun Way to Better Bridge", "The Fun Way to Serious Bridge" and "The Fun Way to Advanced Bridge" are entertaining books featuring tips on both bidding and play for the relevant skill level. 'Advanced' was the 1985 Bridge Book of the Year.  
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"The Art of Card Reading at Bridge" by Fred Karpin is a classic volume with thorough analyses of the principles of card reading and counting with excellent example deals.

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"Bridge Strategy at Trick One" by Fred Karpin is another classic. It explains how to plan the play of the hand once dummy has appeared, and how you may need to change your plan as the play develops.

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The Most Puzzling Situations in Bridge Play
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Terence Reese
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"The Most Puzzling Situations in Bridge Play" by Terence Reese gives excellent instruction on the techniques needed to handle common but difficult problems in the play. The author groups the problems by theme so you can study different variations of the same situation.

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Omar Sharif Talks Bridge
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Omar Sharif
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For over three decades Omar Sharif has been a splendid ambassador for the game that has gripped him like a vice. In his book "Omar Sharif Talks Bridge" he shows you some of the most enjoyable and spectacular hands that he has played.

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Omar Sharif's Life in Bridge
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Omar Sharif
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In addition to his acting, Omar Sharif is well known as a world class Bridge player, authoring "Omar Sharif's Life in Bridge". Starting with a column on Bridge in a local Chicago newspaper to his high-rolling days of high stakes rubber bridge and international player.

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Play More Bridge With Omar Sharif
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Omar Sharif
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"Play More Bridge with Omar Sharif", a collection of 200 pieces from Omar Sharif's Sunday Express column, is aimed at the average club player. The pieces aren't directly instructional, but offer plenty of tips while recounting, in a lively anecdotal style, how a particular hand was played.

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"Better Bridge With a Better Memory: How Mnemonics Will Improve Your Game" by Ron Klinger 'goes beyond ...wide-ranging advice ...and investigates one specific technique in detail. The method demonstrated is mnemonics, and the author shows how that approach, already widely in use in naming agreements and providing clues to their details, can be applied to every phase of the game. As is often the case in Klinger productions, many examples used to demonstrate the case at hand have unrelated interesting points, and the discussions thus provide a welcome variety of topics.' - The Bridge World magazine.

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"Bridge Play Unravelled" by Freddie North focuses on one of the main difficulties encountered by the aspiring bridge player: how to diagnose declarer play problems. The reader is guided through various patterns of recognition, building up the ability to recognize common themes in declarer-play situations. As a next step, the author explains the techniques that are appropriate to solving this particular type of problem; the reader's new skills are then tested by a series of play quizzes. For each of them, the correct solution is given as are several tips on the applicable do's and don'ts.

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"The Bridge Player's Bible: Illustrated Strategies for Staying Ahead of the Game" by Julian Pottage. Bridge is one of the worlds most widely played card games and requires skill, concentration, and practice on the part of its players. This visual guide will help beginners master the rules and principles while also explaining strategies that both beginners and experienced players need to command for successful play. The author presents more than 300 clearly illustrated examples of bid structures, then instructs on how to rank, decode, and defend, from opening bids to endgame strategy. Separate chapters focus on opening bids, responses, rebids, slam bidding, opening leads, general play techniques, both no-trump and suit contracts, defensive leads and returns, and many other topics that are central to a well-played game. The book also features a glossary, an index, and more than 300 colour illustrations. I believe that this book is the same as the book titled "Bridge Players Companion". - (buy from Amazon.co.uk).

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