25 More Bridge Conventions You Should Know

Art. # 978-1-55494-031-8
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About the Book

Are you ready for the next 25 conventions? If you're comfortable with the material in Barbara Seagram's best-selling first book, then you're ready to move on to the more sophisticated bidding gadgets in this one. Even if you don't want to add all these to your own system, you need to be familiar with them because you'll find your opponents using them. Once again, each convention is clearly and simply explained, and you'll see how it fits into any standard bidding system if you decide to use it. Each chapter includes a helpful summary of the key points and a quiz with full explanations of the answers. CONVENTIONS: - Ace-and-king (Italian) cuebidding - Bergen Raises - Cappelletti - D.O.N.T. - DOPI, ROPI and DEPO - Exclusion Blackwood - Fit-showing Jumps - Flannery - Forcing 1NT - Four-suit transfers - Gambling 3NT - Ingberman - Inverted Minor Raises - Leaping Michaels - Multi Two Diamonds - Namyats - Pick-a-slam 5NT - Puppet Stayman - Responding to Three-bids - Snapdragon Doubles - SOS and other Redoubles - Stayman continuations - Support Doubles - Unusual over Unusual - Weak Jump Shifts

About the Author

David Bird (Southampton, UK) is the world's most prolific bridge writer, with 150 bridge books to his name. Known for the clarity of his writing and explanations, he has won the American Bridge Teachers' Association Book of the Year Award a record nine times. His celebrated humorous fiction series, featuring the cantankerous Abbot, has run for over 45 years.

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Barbara Seagram (Toronto, Canada) ran one of the largest and most successful bridge clubs and bridge schools in N. America. After selling the club in 2007, she now concentrates solely on teaching and organizing her popular bridge cruises. An ABTA Master Teacher, Barbara has been involved in many of MPP's most successful titles, most notably 25 Bridge Conventions You Should Know. With more than 200,000 copies in print in English alone, this book is the bestselling bridge title since Charles Goren was writing in the 1950s. It has been translated into Japanese, French, Danish and German.

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