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52 Bridge Mistakes to Avoid
David Bird
Why are the world's top players so successful? They make very few basic mistakes! Players at a less exalted level often make the same mistakes over and over again throughout their bridge careers. In this book you will see 52 of the most frequent mistakes — in bidding, play and defense. The chapter on each mistake will contain several deals where ...
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ISBN: 978-1-77140-151-7
A Complete System for the Tournament Bridge Player
Tuğrul Kaban
This book is designed as a ready-made complete system for the tournament player. The system framework is 2/1, which is laid bare in the first part of the book. Then comes the author’s choice of conventions and methods to cover all practical aspects of bidding and carding, taking each part of the convention card in turn.
Some of the con...
$21.95 $18.95 £14.95
ISBN: 978-1-77140-156-2
A Modern Approach to Two-Over-One
Ken Eichenbaum
Get Out of the Stone Age
For those of you who wish to expand your horizons, this book may be the answer you have been looking for.
A Modern Approach to Two-Over-One was written for the player who already uses a basic two-over-one approach, but is looking for more comprehensive methods to “glue” his system together. Special modern treatment...
$14.95 $14.95 £8.95
ISBN: 978-1-55494-764-5
A Simpler Blue Club - Mississauga Style
Dan Berkley
Keep it Simple
Strong club bidding systems dominated the world of bridge until a few decades ago. The reason? The system thinks for you, the experts say. The experts are right: if you stick to the rules, the system leads you effortlessly to the right decision. The drawback? It is complicated. This book presents a simplified and modernized vers...
$29.95 $24.95 £15.95
ISBN: 978-1-77140-189-0
Bridge Conventions in Depth
Matthew Granovetter & Pamela Granovetter
These wonderful agreements and gadgets turn your everyday bidding system into something personal, something that fits the exact style that you and your partner want to play. And now you can choose from some seventy expert-level ideas to add to your bidding arsenal, quickly and painlessly. In this book you'll find: Basic Conventions — the Re...
$29.95 $23.95 £13.95
ISBN: 978-1-894154-56-7
Bridge on a Shoestring
Michael Schoenborn
A fictionalized account of growing up as a bridge player in Toronto in the 1960s and 1970s, based closely on the author’s own experiences. Great characters, great stories, great bridge hands – what more could you want?...
$21.95 $19.95 £13.95
ISBN: 978-1-77140-012-1
Building a Bidding System
Roy Hughes
This book discusses the theory of bridge bidding for advanced players, with emphasis on the principles behind an effective bidding system. These include the concepts of Useful Space, Relays, Transfers and Dialogue Bidding, as well as creative ideas about Slam Bidding and Deception. The book addresses the conflicting requirements for a system that i...
$21.95 $19.95 £12.95
ISBN: 978-1-897106-02-0
Competitive Bidding in the 21st Century
Marshall Miles
In this book, written for serious tournament players, Miles addresses the the complex arena of competitive bidding methods. Miles discusses current thinking, and recommends methods which will continue to be playable as bridge enters the 21st century. This book will appeal to more serious readers but can be enjoyed thoroughly by the advancing player...
$27.95 $22.95 £17.95
ISBN: 978-1-894154-13-0
Constructive Bidding 401
Stephen Paul
Constructive Bidding 401 is the first of two books that provides advancing partnerships a complete and consistent framework in the form of a bidding system for competition in stratified tournaments at higher levels.
This first book emphasizes the importance of working with your partner. Concepts of teamwork from the business world are prese...
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ISBN: 978-1-77140-242-2
Constructive Bidding 402
Stephen Paul
This book is a follow-up to Constructive Bidding 401, which introduced
the teamwork and structure needed for a complete bidding system.
Together, the two books provide advancing partnerships a complete and
consistent framework in the form of a bidding system for competition
in stratified tournaments at higher levels.
Book ...
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ISBN: 978-1-77140-243-9
Conventions Today
Brian Senior
Learn the Latest and Greatest
The best and most popular conventions in every area of bidding explained. Whatever your preferred system of bidding, you and your partner will inevitably play a number of conventions. This book will not only help you to decide what to incorporate into your partnership's armory, but also help you to understand the many...
$19.95 $15.95 £9.95
ISBN: 978-1-77140-026-8
Cuebidding at Bridge
Ken Rexford
Everyone knows that control-showing bids are the expert route to slam, but it is remarkable hard to find a comprehensive treatment of this vital area of the game. Until now, that is. This is an exhaustive work, covering a lot of territory. The average reader won't agree with everything he reads - and it would be a mammoth undertaking to try and ad...
$23.95 $19.95 £15.95
ISBN: 978-1-897106-17-4
Enhanced Precision: Fourth edition
Ron Beall
About the Fourth Edition
When I completed the third edition of Enhanced Precision, I believed (or at least hoped!) that it would be the final version. But many people made suggestions for improvements and I finally
succumbed to writing what I now believe (or at least hope!) will be the ultimate system (knowing full well that there is no ulti...
$19.95 $17.95 £11.95
ISBN: 978-1-55494-798-0
Fantunes Revealed
Bill Jacobs
Start Playing a winning system
Not since the introduction of Precision has a new bidding system created such an immediate impact as Fantunes, the unique methods of Fulvio Fantoni and Claudio Nunes, the world’s number one ranked pair. The Italians have several world championship wins to their name, and their system has played a major role in t...
$15.95 $15.95 £9.95
ISBN: 978-1-55494-765-2
Following the Law
Larry Cohen
How can you become a better bridge player? Follow the Law! If you've read To Bid Or Not To Bid (and who hasn't?), then you'll want to learn more about the Law of Total Tricks, and how it can help your game, in this sequel. Building on the basic ideas in his first book, Larry Cohen introduces sophisticated concepts which can help make your bidding j...
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ISBN: 978-1-894154-49-9
Good, Better, Best
Jan Eric Larsson
Bridge players constantly argue about the 'best' bidding systems and conventions. Strong Club or Natural? With or without relays? Standard or 2/1? Weak or strong notrump? Was Blue Club really better than the natural systems in the 1950s and 1960s? Is Two-way Stayman as good as Stayman and transfers? Disciplined or undisciplined weak tw...
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ISBN: 978-1-77140-241-5
Helms to HELLO
Jerry Helms
The answer to your prayers - a simple, effective convention for competing over the opponents' 1NT opening bid! Originally self-published in 1996, the first edition sold out quickly, so that this much sought-after treatise has been unavailable for several years. The book describes how the convention works, and how to use it against various ranges o...
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ISBN: 978-1-897106-10-5
Improve Your Bidding Judgment
Neil Kimelman
Bridge players are taught numerous rules to help them make good bidding decisions, rules that involve things like point count, losing trick count, the Law of Total Tricks and a host of other evaluation methods. But eventually everyone discovers that there are more situations where these rules don't apply than where they do. This book fills a gap in...
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ISBN: 978-1-897106-29-7
Inferences at Bridge
Marshall Miles
To be successful, a bridge player has to think like a detective, tracking down the distribution of the unseen hands. Although many players are oblivious to them, the tell-tale clues are there, just waiting to be noticed. They are there in the auction and in the opening lead. Every time a defender plays a card, declarer receives information. Similar...
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ISBN: 978-1-894154-51-2
It's Your Call
Marshall Miles
For about 25 years, Marshall Miles was the moderator of an all-star bidding panel for a California bridge publication. This book is a compilation of his favorite bidding problems from those years, together with the panel's views and Miles' own trenchant comments. As ever, he is prepared to go his own way; he refuses, for example, to assign scores t...
$22.95 $19.95 £12.95
ISBN: 978-1-897106-57-0
Kickback: Slam Bidding at Bridge - Second Edition
Robert Munger
Expert Slam Bidding for Everyone
Until now, the Kickback convention has been the purview of the expert community. This book makes Kickback accessible to all tournament players for the first time. The author starts by explaining why Kickback is easier to use and more efficient than Roman Keycard Blackwood. The book addresses such vital issues as...
$14.95 $11.95 £8.95
ISBN: 978-1-77140-195-1
Larry Cohen's Bidding Challenge
Larry Cohen
Match your bidding skill against the world's top pairs! So you think you can bid like an expert? Here's your chance to prove it! Try bidding the hands in this book with your favorite partner, and then compare your results with those from the prestigious international pairs tournaments where they were first played. Scoring is IMP Pairs, and is based...
$19.95 $15.95
ISBN: 978-1-894154-45-1
MOSSO: Example Auctions and Quizzes
Richard Granville & David Burn
For the last 3 years, the authors have been developing MOSSO, a new bidding system derived from 2/1, Fantunes and Polish Club. MOSSO brings together the best features of its parent systems, while providing an effective interface between them. The system has been the subject of enthusiastic discussion on the popular website bridgewinners.com. This ...
$24.95 $19.95 £15.95
ISBN: 978-1-77140-202-6
MOSSO: Example Auctions and Quizzes Second Edition
Richard Granville & David Burn
THREE BIDDING SYSTEMS COMBINED INTO ONE
For the last six years, Richard Granville and David Burn have been developing MOSSO, a revolutionary bidding system derived from Two-over-One, Fantunes and Polish Club. MOSSO brings together the best features of its parent systems, while providing an effective interface between them. The system has been em...
$32.95 $26.95
ISBN: 978-1-77140-253-8
Mastering Hand Evaluation
Lawrence Diamond
Advance Your Partnership Communication
Getting to good games, slams, and staying out of poor contracts is an important aspect of bridge. The best way to improve your bidding is not to add a new convention but to improve your hand evaluation skills. In Mastering Hand Evaluation: Understanding the Principles of Partnership Bidding you will learn abo...
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ISBN: 978-1-77140-153-1
Misbid These Hands with Me
Mark Horton
In 2007, Horton wrote Misplay These Hands with Me, a deliberate homage to Reese's classic, Play These Hands with Me. The difference was that the declarer in Horton's book always made an error, sometimes obvious, sometimes not so much. This successful book was the basis of a long-running column in the ACBL's Bridge Bulletin, a sequel in 2019, and e...
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ISBN: 978-1-77140-068-8
Modern Constructive Bidding
Marshall Miles
The logical follow-up to the author's best-selling Competitive Bidding in the 21st Century, this book deals with the latest expert thinking on constructive auctions at bridge. As usual, Miles' ideas are cutting edge, and not everything he recommends will appeal to everyone. However, also as usual, he challenges his readers to think and question wha...
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ISBN: 978-1-894154-99-4
More Accurate Bidding
Marshall Miles
This is not a book for beginners, and will not bore you with rehashing things you already know. Some of the topics are somewhat controversial, and as always Marshall Miles urges his own, often original, point of view. You may not be persuaded by everything he recommends, but perhaps you will adopt part of it, and it won't hurt you to discover h...
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ISBN: 978-1-55494-756-0
Multi-Landy 2nd Edition: The killer defense versus one notrump
David Oakley
When the opponents open one notrump, you are faced with a dilemma. Versus a strong notrump, the opponents have the power; versus a weak notrump, they force you or your partner to compete at the two-level. This second edition adds Part 5: Comparison with Other Conventions and a new section, Criteria for an Overcall.
Multi-Landy comprises fou...
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ISBN: 978-1-77140-193-7
My System: The Unbalanced Diamond
Marshall Miles
Marshall Miles has been writing bridge books for more than fifty years, and during that time has remained one of the world's leading thinkers on the theory of bidding. His recent gold medal in the World Senior Teams shows that he has lost little of his edge with time. This book, a distillation of the ideas he has been developing and evolving over m...
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ISBN: 978-1-897106-23-5
Optimal Hand Evaluation in Competitive Bidding
Patrick Darricades
In his first book, Optimal Hand Evaluation, the author introduced a number of corrections to the Goren point count to reach "optimal" hand evaluation accuracy. That first book focused on non-competitive bidding situations where no further adjustments were needed as a result of the opponents' bidding. This book now deals with this s...
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ISBN: 978-1-77140-225-5
Playing 2/1: The Rest of the Story
Paul Thurston
Paul Thurston’s 25 Steps to Learning 2/1 was an instant bestseller, winning the 2003 American Bridge Teachers’ Association Book of the Year award. In a tantalizing postscript to that book, he promised a sequel, one that would cover ‘the rest of the story’ for those who wanted to add modern sophistication to their 2/1 bidding. Here at last h...
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ISBN: 978-1-77140-024-4
Polish Club 2020: Expert
Krzysztof Jassem
The motto of the Polish Club 2020 Expert system is: ‘Bid
aggressively with an offensive hand, keep quiet with a defensive
hand.’ Non-vulnerable one-level light openings and responses are
introduced here. But the main merit of the Polish Club, i.e. to
‘keep an eye on the total strength of the bidders’, is still preserved.
In...
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ISBN: 978-1-77140-224-8
Really Unusual Notrump (R.U.N.T.)
Ken Rexford
Master Point Press author Ken Rexford provides the first authoritative description of the R.U.N.T. Convention. R.U.N.T. is actually a two-way overcalling structure to distinguish a very sound takeout double from a weak three-suited takeout by way of an artificial 1NT overcall - preempting and intervening in the auction safely and effectively.
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ISBN: 978-1-55494-763-8
Roman Keycard Blackwood, 5th ed.
Eddie Kantar
This is the fifth (and according to the author, the very last - but don't hold your breath!) edition of what is acknowledged to be the definitive book on a convention that every serious player uses. Completely revised and updated from the previous version, this newest version contains even more leading-edge ideas, and is full of examples, quizzes a...
$23.95 $23.95 £13.95
ISBN: 978-1-897106-35-8
Santa Fe Precision
Dennis Dawson
This book on Precision is quite different. It is a very simplified version, based on the system played by Rodwell and Meckstroth so successfully, but aimed at club players.
Eric Rodwell has endorsed the system and the book.
Dennis Dawson learned Meckwell Lite fifteen years ago when playing on teams with Rodwell and Meckstroth. He then used it ...
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ISBN: 978-1-77140-209-5
Sixpack: Adventures with Keycards and Queecards
Allan DeSerpa
Six keycard RKCB has come of age!
As soon you identify a double fit, don't ask for keycards… just "launch" and tell. You can find out about all six keycards — and two "queecards" — below the game level. Part I of the book lays out a set of basic rules for any casual partnership to apply quickly and easily. Part II gets...
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ISBN: 978-1-77140-150-0
Sleeping on the Couch
David Caprera
All profits from the sale of this book will be donated to the United States Bridge Federation Junior Program.
Here is what some of Dave’s friends who appear in the book
had to say:
"I don’t bid like that because if I do I will end up sleeping on the
couch." - Mike Passell
"When they travel to tournaments, Dave chooses th...
$23.95 $19.95 £12.95
ISBN: 978-1-77140-194-4
Sublime Declarer Play: After the Contested Auction
Nick Smith
PLAY LIKE A BERMUDA BOWL CHAMPION
It’s not often that a bridge book comes along that takes dummy play into a new dimension, but Sublime Declarer Play does exactly that. The focus is on the competitive auction and the inferences that can be drawn from opponents’ bidding choices. Moments of sublimity are the consequence of a series of logical...
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ISBN: 978-1-77140-251-4
Symmetric Relay
Nick Hughes
Relay in Action
As bidding sophistication continues to grow, many top pairs are turning to relay systems, where one partner asks questions and then places the final contract based on the answers. Often these methods are tied to a strong club approach: methods such as the Ultimate Club and Moscito have been around for decades. The symmetric
relay ...
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ISBN: 978-1-77140-222-4
The Complete Book on Overcalls in Contract Bridge (2nd edition)
Mike Lawrence
Originally published in 1980, this book quickly became recognized as a 'must-read' for any would-be bridge expert, and has never been out of print. Now, almost 30 years later, the author has revised, updated and expanded it to take into account modern developments in the theory and practice of competitive bidding. Anyone serious about improving the...
$24.95 $21.95 £15.95
ISBN: 978-1-897106-45-7
The Complete Book on Takeout Doubles (2nd edition)
Mike Lawrence
The definitive book on the oldest – and most useful – convention in bridge, the takeout double. Originally published in 1994, this book quickly became recognized as a ‘must-read’ for any would-be bridge expert, and has never been out of print. Now, almost twenty years later, the author has revised and updated the text to...
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ISBN: 978-1-897106-87-7
The Complete Guide to Passed Hand Bidding (2nd edition)
Mike Lawrence
The definitive book on auctions that begin in third or fourth seat. Originally published in 1989, this book quickly became recognized as a ‘must-read’ for any would-be bridge expert, and has never been out of print. Now, more than 20 years later, the author has revised, updated and expanded it to take into account modern ideas in bidding. A...
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ISBN: 978-1-897106-82-2
The Contested Auction
Roy Hughes
Canadian expert Roy Hughes’ first book, Building a Bidding System, has become a must-read for expert pairs looking to develop effective constructive bidding methods. Now Hughes turns to the theory and practice of competitive auctions, a critical component of the modern game.
Beginning again by establishing what the bidding system needs to ac...
$29.95 $24.95 £15.95
ISBN: 978-1-897106-86-0
The MOSSO Bidding System
Richard Granville & David Burn
For the last three years, the authors have been developing MOSSO, a new bidding system derived from 2/1, Fantunes and Polish Club. MOSSO brings together the best features of its parent systems, while providing an effective interface between them. The system has been the subject of enthusiastic discussion on the popular website bridgewinners.com. Th...
$29.95 $24.95 £18.95
ISBN: 978-1-77140-202-6
The MOSSO Bidding System: Second Edition
Richard Granville & David Burn
THREE BIDDING SYSTEMS COMBINED INTO ONE
For the last six years, Richard Granville and David Burn have been developing MOSSO, a revolutionary bidding system derived from Two-over-One, Fantunes and Polish Club. MOSSO brings together the best features of its parent systems, while providing an effective interface between them. The system has been em...
$32.95 $26.95
ISBN: 978-1-77140-252-1
The Mysterious Multi
Mark Horton & Jan van Cleeff
The Multi Two Diamonds is a popular convention among tournament players, yet this is the first comprehensive modern book on how it fits into commonly played bidding structures. Various alternative uses for the opening major-suit two-bids, including the popular Muiderberg Twos, are discussed in depth, as well as the popular Multi Landy (Woolsey) def...
$22.95 $19.95 £12.95
ISBN: 978-1-897106-56-3
The NoTrump Zone
Danny Kleinman
Notrump openings, and the constructive auctions that follow them, are two of the most neglected areas in bridge literature. Following on from his popular articles in the ACBL Bulletin, Kleinman discusses the principles behind notrump bids and rebids in a variety of situations, emphasizing the ideas and concepts rather than attempting to teach a ser...
$25.95 $19.95 £15.95
ISBN: 978-1-894154-70-3
The Rabbi's Rules
Mark Horton & Eric Kokish
Built around real-life deals featuring the bridge-playing rabbi, Leonard Helman, this book contains a wealth of tips on bidding and play for the advancing player. Even experts will learn from some of the bidding ideas, drawn from Eric Kokish’s encyclopedic coaching files....
$19.95 $21.95 £12.95
ISBN: 978-1-77140-001-5
The Right Bid at the Right Time
Neil Kimelman
With this book, Kimelman completes the trilogy that started with Improve Your Bidding Judgment. He explores the delicate process of making the right decisions in the auction, especially in competitive situations. All the examples are taken from high-level bridge events. As before, the book is presented in quiz format, so the reader can make h...
$23.95 $19.95 £12.95
ISBN: 978-1-77140-027-5
The Thin Fine Line
Neil Kimelman
In this sequel to Improve Your Bidding Judgment, the author continues the discussion of the ideas behind good decision-making during the auction at bridge, getting into areas and agreements that were not dealt with in his first book.
Praise for Improve Your Bidding Judgment:
“I found myself in agreement with the author on almost everything ...
$19.95 $19.95 £12.95
ISBN: 978-1-897106-93-8
The Weak Notrump
Andy Stark
All North American players are taught to play using a strong notrump, but that is not the way of the rest of the world. Even in North America, weak notrump systems, or even Kamikaze notrump systems, are becoming more common. This book discusses the advantages and disadvantages of playing a system with a weaker notrump opening, and shows how the 1NT...
$21.95 $19.95 £12.95
ISBN: 978-1-894154-69-7
Tips on Competitive Bidding
Mike Lawrence
Twenty years ago, Mike Lawrence published a series of short booklets for intermediate players, entitled Topics on Bridge, with advice on various aspects of bidding and cardplay. Long unavailable, this material has now been revised, updated, and republished in three anthology volumes, each comprised of about ten of the original booklets.
The ...
$21.95 $19.95 £12.95
ISBN: 978-1-77140-021-3
To Bid or Not to Bid
Larry Cohen
Since its publication in 1992, To Bid or Not to Bid has sold over 50,000 copies in English alone and has been published in several other languages. Undoubtedly the best-selling bridge book of the 1990s, its lucid exposition of the empirical Law of Total Tricks (a simple guide to making the right decisions in competitive bridge auctions) has made it...
$24.95 $19.95 £15.95
ISBN: 978-1-894154-48-2
Toucan Club Complete
Ron Beall & Ron Woodard
"The one-club sequences are powerful. Transfer auctions are valuable because they allow the partnership an extra step to exchange more information. Responder knows the extent of a major-suit fit very early in the auction. And finally, it can be difficult to defend accurately against a one club opener because the normal distributional clues that the...
$16.95 $12.95 £9.95
ISBN: 978-1-77140-247-7
Transfer Responses to One Club with Relays
Lyle Poe
Transfer responses and relays in the context of a forcing club system have been gaining in popularity in Europe for some time. Now, however, some top American pairs are using these methods, and recent changes in ACBL classifications mean that they can be played in most ACBL-sanctioned events. This book is an ideal introduction for players wanting ...
$19.95 $16.95 £12.95
ISBN: 978-1-77140-198-2
Variable Key Card Blackwood
Ken Rexford
Beyond Roman Key Card Blackwood
Easley Blackwood introduced and developed the Blackwood Convention. Eddie Kantar then expanded the Blue Team's Roman Blackwood into the Roman Key Card Blackwood that has dominated expert circles for the past half century. Variable Key Card Blackwood may be the next logical step. VKCB allows partnerships to addr...
$14.95 $14.95 £8.95
ISBN: 978-1-55494-772-0
What's Your Line? 100 Instructive Bridge Problems
David Bird
Fine Tune Your Cardplay
This collection of 100 problems features instructive deals that have appeared in David Bird’s bridge columns over the past few years. The author has aimed to present problems that will give you a good chance of finding the solution. They illustrate a wide range of card-play techniques.
Each problem is present...
$21.95 $18.95 £11.95
ISBN: 978-1-77140-155-5
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