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25 Bridge Myths Exposed
David Bird
Do you remember the first few times you played bridge? To get you started, a friend probably gave you a few helpful hints -- perhaps one of the ones listed to the left. There are many such general guidelines for bridge players -- some of them valuable, some not. But these are the Bridge Myths, not the Bridge Rules -- because they all have exception...
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ISBN: 978-1-894154-52-9
25 Ways to Take More Tricks as Declarer
Barbara Seagram & David Bird
Take more tricks whenever you play the hand! Isn't that what being a good declarer is all about? However good or bad partner's bidding may be, once the dummy comes down, it's up to you, the declarer, to make the best of it. And in this book, in 25 easy steps, you'll learn how. Join master bridge teachers Barbara Seagram and David Bird as they first...
$21.95 $19.95 £11.95
ISBN: 978-1-894154-47-5
A Bridge to Inspired Declarer Play
Julian Laderman
This book addresses the thought processes that novice declarers must develop and practice. What features of a bridge hand lead an expert to select the correct line of play from all those available? The carefully chosen examples in this book will help advancing players to recognize those features and take action accordingly. Praise for Julian Laderm...
$21.95 $19.95 £12.95
ISBN: 978-1-897106-44-0
A Second Book of Bridge Problems
Patrick O'Connor
Like the author's first book (A First Book of Bridge Problems, named Book of the Year for 2012 by the American Bridge Teachers Association), this sequel comprises fifty problems in declarer play and defense for the beginning or near-beginning player, presented in approximate order of difficulty. The problems are slightly more advanced than those i...
$15.95 $15.95 £9.95
ISBN: 978-1-77140-011-4
A Taste of Bridge
Jeff Bayone
Jeff Bayone's Honors Bridge Club in New York is the largest in North America, perhaps in the world. This book is based on their beginners' course, a series of six lessons that have started thousands of people on the road to enjoying the world's most popular card game. This book is intended to give the reader a taste of bridge, and whet the appetit...
$23.95 $19.95 £12.95
ISBN: 978-1-77140-034-3
Barbara Seagram's Beginning Bridge
Barbara Seagram & Linda Lee
It doesn't matter whether you know a heart from a spade right now - by the time you finish this book you'll be able to enjoy a social game of bridge with your friends. Barbara Seagram's 25 Bridge Conventions You Should Know continues to be a bestselling book year after year, and her books on the game have more than 250,000 copies in print in four l...
$21.95 $19.95 £12.95
ISBN: 978-1-897106-33-4
Barbara's Bridge Tips
Barbara Seagram
Whether you have been playing for a while or you're not very experienced, this book will help you to move your game up to the next level. The tips cover all aspects of bridge - bidding, play and defense. Advice and examples are drawn from material Barbara Seagram has developed for her students over the last twenty years - it's like having your own ...
$24.95 $19.95 £15.95
ISBN: 978-1-77140-061-9
Bridge Cardplay: An Easy Guide - 1. Finessing
David Bird & Marc Smith
Whether you are just setting out to discover the wonderful game of bridge, or have played for some time, your success will be limited without a sound understanding of the basic techniques of cardplay. In this series, two of the game's top writers explain clearly the various cardplay skills that you will need. Every booklet contains six chapters - e...
$9.95 $7.95 £5.95
ISBN: 978-1-77140-227-9
Bridge Cardplay: An Easy Guide - 10. Playing Safely
David Bird & Marc Smith
Whether you are just setting out to discover the wonderful game of bridge, or have played for some time, your success will be limited without a sound understanding of the basic techniques of cardplay.
In this series, two of the game's top writers explain clearly the various cardplay skills that you will need. Every booklet contains six chapters - ...
$9.95 $7.95 £5.95
ISBN: 978-1-77140-236-1
Bridge Cardplay: An Easy Guide - 2. Ruffing Losers
David Bird & Marc Smith
Whether you are just setting out to discover the wonderful game of bridge, or have played for some time, your success will be limited without a sound understanding of the basic techniques of cardplay. In this series, two of the game's top writers explain clearly the various cardplay skills that you will need. Every booklet contains six chapters - e...
$9.95 $7.95 £5.92
ISBN: 978-1-77140-228-6
Bridge Cardplay: An Easy Guide - 3. Discarding Losers
David Bird & Marc Smith
Whether you are just setting out to discover the wonderful game of bridge, or have played for some time, your success will be limited without a sound understanding of the basic techniques of cardplay. In this series, two of the game's top writers explain clearly the various cardplay skills that you will need. Every booklet contains six chapters - e...
$9.95 $7.99 £5.95
ISBN: 978-1-77140-229-3
Bridge Cardplay: An Easy Guide - 4. Drawing Trumps
David Bird & Marc Smith
Whether you are just setting out to discover the wonderful game of bridge, or have played for some time, your success will be limited without a sound understanding of the basic techniques of cardplay.
In this series, two of the game's top writers explain clearly the various cardplay skills that you will need. Every booklet contains six chapters - ...
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ISBN: 978-1-77140-230-9
Bridge Cardplay: An Easy Guide - 5. Establishing Long Suits
David Bird & Marc Smith
Whether you are just setting out to discover the wonderful game of bridge, or have played for some time, your success will be limited without a sound understanding of the basic techniques of cardplay.
In this series, two of the game's top writers explain clearly the various cardplay skills that you will need. Every booklet contains six chapters - ...
$9.95 $7.95 £5.95
ISBN: 978-1-77140-231-6
Bridge Cardplay: An Easy Guide - 6. Holding Up A Stopper
David Bird & Marc Smith
Whether you are just setting out to discover the wonderful game of bridge, or have played for some time, your success will be limited without a sound understanding of the basic techniques of cardplay.
In this series, two of the game's top writers explain clearly the various cardplay skills that you will need. Every booklet contains six chapters - ...
$9.95 $7.95 £5.95
ISBN: 978-1-77140-232-3
Bridge Cardplay: An Easy Guide - 7. No-trump Contracts
David Bird & Marc Smith
Whether you are just setting out to discover the wonderful game of bridge, or have played for some time, your success will be limited without a sound understanding of the basic techniques of cardplay.
In this series, two of the game's top writers explain clearly the various cardplay skills that you will need. Every booklet contains six chapters - ...
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ISBN: 978-1-77140-233-0
Bridge Cardplay: An Easy Guide - 8. Suit Contracts
David Bird & Marc Smith
Whether you are just setting out to discover the wonderful game of bridge, or have played for some time, your success will be limited without a sound understanding of the basic techniques of cardplay.
In this series, two of the game's top writers explain clearly the various cardplay skills that you will need. Every booklet contains six chapters - ...
$9.95 $7.95 £5.95
ISBN: 978-1-77140-234-7
Bridge Cardplay: An Easy Guide - 9. Entries
David Bird & Marc Smith
Whether you are just setting out to discover the wonderful game of bridge, or have played for some time, your success will be limited without a sound understanding of the basic techniques of cardplay.
In this series, two of the game's top writers explain clearly the various cardplay skills that you will need. Every booklet contains six chapters - ...
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ISBN: 978-1-77140-235-4
Declarer Play at Bridge: A Quizbook
Barbara Seagram & David Bird
Planning the Play of a Bridge Hand, by the same author team, was named the 2010 Book of the Year by the American Bridge Teachers’ Association. Building on the success of that title, this book gives near-beginners a chance to practice the principles on which sound declarer play is based: count your winners, count your losers, make a plan.
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ISBN: 978-1-897106-91-4
Declarer Play at Bridge: A Quizbook
Barbara Seagram & David Bird
This Interactive CD-ROM Edition is based on the bestselling book, Declarer Play at Bridge, that was named 2013 Book of the Year by the American Bridge Teachers' Association. Using a series of problem hands, two of the world's best bridge teachers explain how to go about making a plan as declarer, using a simple step-by-step process. This educatio...
$34.95 $29.95 £18.95
ISBN: 978-1-77140-006-0
Eddie Kantar Teaches Topics in Declarer Play at Bridge
Eddie Kantar
Kantar's two-book series on Bridge Defense ( Modern Bridge Defense and Advanced Bridge Defense) won an ABTA Book of the Year Award in 1999. This new book addresses a more popular topic, using a similar approach. While not a comprehensive treatment of declarer play at bridge, this book deals with specific topics exhaustively, and will be invaluable ...
$29.95 $25.95 £19.95
ISBN: 978-1-894154-53-6
Gamesman Bridge: Play Better with Kantar
Eddie Kantar
Nobody wants to lose at contract bridge. This book will show you how to win.
Whether you're an advanced beginner, an intermediate or an advanced player, this valuable book can help you win more frequently and gain greater personal satisfaction from contract bridge. This is a book on the play of hands, full of wise counsel; it will entertain expert...
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ISBN: 978-1-55494-773-7
Improve Your Cardplay Step by Step: Playing Notrump Contracts
Robert Berthe & Norbert Lébely
Forty years ago, in 1980, Robert Berthe and Norbert Lébely put the finishing touches on two books that would revolutionize the teaching of bridge cardplay: the first two books in the Step by Step series (Pas à Pas in the original French).
Based on an innovative yet clear and easily-understandable pedagogical approach involving the re...
$24.95 $19.95 £15.95
ISBN: 978-1-77140-074-9
Improve Your Cardplay Step by Step: Playing Suit Contracts
Robert Berthe & Norbert Lébely
Forty years ago, in 1980, Robert Berthe and Norbert Lébely put the finishing touches on two books that would revolutionize the teaching of bridge cardplay: the first two books in the Step by Step series (Pas à Pas in the original French).
Based on an innovative yet clear and easily-understandable pedagogical approach involving the re...
$24.95 $19.95 £15.95
ISBN: 978-1-77140-075-6
Introduction to Declarer Play: Second Edition
Eddie Kantar
The classic first book on declarer play at bridge, covering the topic with clarity, skill and humor. More than fifty years after its first publication, this book has been revised and updated to bring it into line with modern methods of play and bridge education....
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ISBN: 978-1-77140-056-5
Planning the Play of a Bridge Hand
Barbara Seagram & David Bird
The book, Planning the Play of a Bridge Hand, won the 2010 ABTA Book of the Year award. Now in interactive software, the user can play through all the examples onscreen, going through them as many times as necessary to understand the principles involved....
$34.95 $29.95 £18.95
ISBN: 978-1-897106-79-2
Planning the Play of a Bridge Hand
Barbara Seagram & David Bird
Do you get that terrible sinking feeling when you first see dummy? Does your mind go blank as everyone waits for you to play to the first trick? If so, you're not alone. Beginning bridge players are taught some of the basic techniques of declarer play: suit establishment, ruffing losers, the finesse, and so forth. The hard part is learning what t...
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ISBN: 978-1-897106-51-8
The Pocket Guide to Declarer Play at Bridge
Barbara Seagram & David Bird
Using the same format as The Pocket Guide to Bridge, this book provides a handy pocket summary of about two dozen basic concepts in declarer play. In a concise but readable manner, it summarizes most of the material presented in 25 Ways to Take More Tricks as Declarer, by the same author team....
$9.95 $9.95 £6.95
ISBN: 978-1-77140-002-2
Yes, No or Maybe: Introduction and Card Play Basics
David Glandorf
Are you tired of learning/teaching bridge from a cookbook? Tired of memorizing how many points you need to bid this or that? Do you have trouble determining if you have a minimum, medium or maximum hand and what you are supposed to do if it fits in a particular category? Then Yes, No or Maybe is what you need.
This is a series of three textbooks ...
$21.95 $19.95 £12.95
ISBN: 978-1-77140-165-4
Yes, No or Maybe: Introduction and Card Play Basics Workbook
David Glandorf
Coming Soon
Are you tired of learning/teaching bridge from a cookbook? Tired of memorizing how many points you need to bid this or that? Do you have trouble determining if you have a minimum, medium or maximum hand and what you are supposed to do if it fits in a particular category? Then Yes, No or Maybe is what you need.
This is a series of th...
$17.95 $14.95 £9.95
ISBN: 978-1-77140-166-1
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