World Class: Conversations With the Bridge Masters

Available for download in an eBook Edition

by: Marc Smith
foreword by Gabriel Chagas

288pp | Paperback | ISBN 978-1-894154-15-4

Cost in Canadian Dollars $24.95 Cost in Cost in US Dollars $17.95

Categories: General Interest

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Twenty-six of the world's best players talk about bridge — how they got started, their best and worst memories, their favorite hands, the players they most admire, the opponents they most fear, and their hopes for the future of the game. As you read this book, you will see the human side of people who up to now may just be names in a bridge column, but you'll also get from them a series of tips and ideas that will help you improve your own game. Men and women from all parts of the world are included, and the result is a fascinating look at how bridge is viewed in different countries.

Included are:

* Sabine Auken (Germany)
* Boye Brogeland (Norway)
* Gabriel Chagas (Brazil)
* Larry Cohen (USA)
* John Collings (UK)
* Maria Erhart (Austria)
* Andrew Robson (UK)
* Benito Garozzo (USA/Italy)
* Fred Gitelman (Canada)
* Jason Hackett (UK)
* Justin Hackett (UK)
* Bob Hamman (USA)
* Geir Helgemo (Norway)
* Eddie Kantar (USA)
* Ron Klinger (Australia)
* Apolinary Kowalski (Poland)
* Mike Lawrence (USA)
* Magnus Lindkvist (Sweden)
* Morten Lund Madsen (Denmark)
* Karen McCallum (USA)
* Jeff Meckstroth (USA)
* Nicola Smith (UK)
* P.O. Sundelin (Sweden)
* Dorothy Hayden Truscott (USA)
* Alfredo Versace (Italy)
* Zia Mahmood (USA/Pakistan)

Marc Smith

Marc Smith (Southampton, UK) is the author, with Barbara Seagram, of the world's best-selling bridge book in the past sixty years, 25 Bridge Conventions You Should Know. He has written many other bridge books and played successfully in several international championships. He is a popular online bridge teacher, conducting many classes at all levels of play.

Gabriel Chagas

Gabriel Chagas, of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, is by far South America's all-time most successful player. He is a three-time World Champion, and has won bridge's Triple Crown — The Olympiad, the Bermuda Bowl, and the World Open Pairs — something only eight others have accomplished. He has also contributed to bridge theory, being the first to write about and explain the intra-finesse.