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Barbara Seagram & Marc Smith

You can now purchase the 25 Bridge Conventions You Should Know 2nd Edition. American Bridge Teachers Association Book of the Year Award winner It doesn't take long before beginning bridge players want to know more about bidding systems, and especially about conventions. Even social players are usually keen to add a few choice gadgets to their b...

$21.95 $19.95 £11.95

ISBN: 978-1-894154-07-9

25 Bridge Conventions You Should Know (2nd Edition)

Barbara Seagram, Marc Smith & David Bird

Since its publication in 1999, 25 Bridge Conventions You Should Know has sold more than 300,000 copies in six languages. It has become a much-valued learning tool and reference for everyone from social players to those who regularly spend time at their local bridge club. But bridge has changed in the last twenty-odd years. Bidding has chang...

$27.95 $21.95 £17.95

ISBN: 978-1-77140-071-8

25 Bridge Conventions You Should Know: Practice Makes Perfect

Barbara Seagram & David Bird

You asked for it! 25 Conventions You Should Know has sold more than 250,000 copies since it was first published, and continues to top the bridge bestseller lists. Over the years, readers have suggested that it would be an even better book if it offered some way to practice what they had learned. Well, here it is: a brief summary of each of t...

$19.95 $15.95 £9.95

ISBN: 978-1-77140-029-9

25 Bridge Conventions for ACOL Players

Sandra Landy, Mark Horton & Barbara Seagram

If you're like most beginning bridge players, you want to know more about bidding systems, and especially conventions. Even if you just play socially, it can't hurt to add a few choice gadgets to your bidding arsenal. This book describes and explains 25 basic conventions that you can easily assimilate into your own bidding. Each one is clearly and ...

$25.95 $21.95 £15.95

ISBN: 978-1-897106-14-3

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...

$21.95 $19.95 £16.95

ISBN: 978-1-894154-52-9

25 More Bridge Conventions You Should Know

Barbara Seagram & David Bird

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 th...

$21.95 $19.95 £11.95

ISBN: 978-1-894154-65-9

25 Ways to Compete in the Bidding

Barbara Seagram & Marc Smith

A follow-up book from the author team that produced the award-winning and best-selling 25 Bridge Conventions You Should Know. Aimed at the same novice/social/intermediate player as their first book in the award-winning '25' series, this new title deals with competitive auctions in which the opponents have opened the bidding. This is the most comple...

$21.95 $19.95 £11.95

ISBN: 978-1-894154-22-2

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

25 Ways to be a Better Defender

Barbara Seagram & David Bird

Defense is the hardest part of playing bridge, but that doesn't mean that it's impossible to learn. In the final book of the bestselling '25' series, the authors explain how to make a plan as a defender: how to work out from the auction and play what declarer probably has, and which of the strategies available to defenders is likely to be successfu...

$21.95 $19.95 £11.95

ISBN: 978-1-897106-11-2

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 with Bells and Whistles

Mary Ann Dufresne & Marion Ellingsen

There are plenty of bridge books for serious players, and also a number of books for raw beginners. However, very little has been published for the player who has completed the Basic course and is now ready to add a few ‘bells and whistles’ to his or her game. This book conducts a thorough review of all the bidding ideas and concepts en...

$21.95 $19.95 £11.95

ISBN: 978-1-897106-69-3

Bumblepuppy Days

Julian Laderman

The origins of the game of bridge have been shrouded in mystery... but no longer. Tracing the development of the game and the fascinating characters who played it from whist through to auction bridge and eventually contract, the author reveals the missing link, and demonstrates how the world's most popular card game came into being. Addi...

$24.95 $22.95 £14.95

ISBN: 978-1-77140-003-9

Coming Back To Bridge

Paul Goldfinger

Has it been a long time since you played bridge? Bridge is a game that people often decide to learn as empty-nesters. There are also those who learned the game when they were younger -- but while they would like to start playing again, they are nervous about how much the game may have changed. There are new ways of bidding, new conventions, and o...

$12.95 $9.95 £7.95

ISBN: 978-1-77140-062-6

Competitive Bidding

Patty Tucker

Competitive Bidding The Winning Bridge Conventions Series An Honors eBook Bridge students quickly discover that basic bidding will only get them so far. To improve it is necessary to master a certain number of bidding conventions, and be prepared both to play them and to play against them. Each of the books in this series covers a number ...

$21.95 $19.95 £12.95

ISBN: 978-1-55494-788-1

Competitive Doubles

Patty Tucker

Competitive Doubles The Winning Bridge Conventions Series An Honors eBook Bridge students quickly discover that basic bidding will only get them so far. To improve it is necessary to master a certain number of bidding conventions, and be prepared both to play them and to play against them. Each of the books in this series covers a number ...

$16.95 $14.95 £9.95

ISBN: 978-1-55494-789-8

Conventions After a Major Suit Opening

Patty Tucker

Conventions After a Major Suit Opening The Winning Bridge Conventions Series An Honors eBook Bridge students quickly discover that basic bidding will only get them so far. To improve it is necessary to master a certain number of bidding conventions, and be prepared both to play them and to play against them. Each of the books in this seri...

$17.95 $15.95 £9.95

ISBN: 978-1-55494-786-7

Conventions After a Notrump Opening

Patty Tucker

Conventions After a Notrump Opening The Winning Bridge Conventions Series An Honors eBook Bridge students quickly discover that basic bidding will only get them so far. To improve it is necessary to master a certain number of bidding conventions, and be prepared both to play them and to play against them. Each of the books in this series ...

$21.95 $19.95 £12.95

ISBN: 978-1-55494-785-0

Conventions Useful with 2/1

Patty Tucker

Conventions Useful with 2/1 The Winning Bridge Conventions Series An Honors eBook Bridge students quickly discover that basic bidding will only get them so far. To improve it is necessary to master a certain number of bidding conventions, and be prepared both to play them and to play against them. Each of the books in this series covers a...

$17.95 $15.95 £9.95

ISBN: 978-1-55494-791-1

Conventions Useful with Strong Hands

Patty Tucker

Conventions Useful with Strong Hands The Winning Bridge Conventions Series An Honors eBook Bridge students quickly discover that basic bidding will only get them so far. To improve it is necessary to master a certain number of bidding conventions, and be prepared both to play them and to play against them. Each of the books in this series...

$16.95 $14.95 £9.95

ISBN: 978-1-55494-790-4

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

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. ...

$15.95 $15.95 £9.95

ISBN: 978-1-897106-91-4

Defensive Carding & Opening Leads

Patty Tucker

Defensive Carding & Opening Leads The Winning Bridge Conventions Series An Honors eBook Bridge students quickly discover that basic bidding will only get them so far. To improve it is necessary to master a certain number of bidding conventions, and be prepared both to play them and to play against them. Each of the books in this series co...

$16.95 $14.95 £9.95

ISBN: 978-1-55494-792-8

Demystifying Defense

Patrick O'Connor

O’Connor established himself as a leading author for beginning players with his first book, A First Book of Bridge Problems, which won the American Bridge Teachers’ Association Book of the Year award in 2012. Now he addresses the hardest aspect of cardplay: defense. After carefully explaining the basic concepts, he takes the reader through for...

$19.95 $16.95 £9.95

ISBN: 978-1-77140-041-1

Eddie Kantar Teaches Modern Bridge Defense

Eddie Kantar

System Requirements: IBM compatible PC, Windows 95,97 or NT; 10 Mb free hard disk space; CD-ROM drive; 8 Mb RAM; at least 800 x 600 screen resolution. Software by Bridge Base Inc. Eddie Kantar teaches Modern Bridge Defense - Interactive CD-ROM Edition is based on the bestseller that was named 1999 Book of the Year by the American Bridge Teachers As...

$25.00 $20.00 £12.95

ISBN: 978-1-894154-09-3

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...

$22.95 $19.95 £12.95

ISBN: 978-1-55494-773-7

Hands on Weak Two Bids

Joan Anderson

Weak two-bids are well ensconced in the bridge world and are now part of any beginning program of lessons. They are, however, in that class of “most abused” conventions. An understanding of all the important tools that are at your fingertips will serve you well in making these decisions at the table. This book will walk you through the solution...

$14.95 $14.95 £8.95

ISBN: 978-1-55494-760-7

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

$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....

$17.95 $13.95 £9.95

ISBN: 978-1-77140-056-5

Introduction to Defense: Second Edition

Eddie Kantar

The classic first book on defensive cardplay 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....

$17.95 $13.95 £9.95

ISBN: 978-1-77140-055-8

More Conventions, More Practice

Barbara Seagram & David Bird

You asked for more! Following the runaway success of Practice Makes Perfect, bridge teachers asked the authors to produce a similar companion book to 25 More Bridge Conventions You Should Know. And here it is -- a brief summary of each of those 25 more conventions, together with example hands that can be dealt out and used to apply your ne...

$19.95 $15.95 £9.95

ISBN: 978-1-77140-047-3

Planning the Defense

Barbara Seagram & David Bird

Ten years after their award-winning Planning the Play of a Bridge Hand, Seagram & Bird tackle the hardest part of the game: defense. Using the same step-by-step approach, they guide the reader through the minefield of signaling, making a defensive plan and, above all, counting – points, tricks and distribution. Runner-up in the 2020 ABTA B...

$24.95 $19.95 £15.95

ISBN: 978-1-77140-053-4

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...

$22.95 $19.95 £12.95

ISBN: 978-1-897106-51-8

Practice Your Notrump Bidding

Barbara Seagram & Andy Stark

System Requirements: System requirements: IBM compatible computer; Windows; 16 Mb RAM; 10 Mb hard disk space; CD-ROM drive; at least 800 x 600 screen resolution. Software by Bridge Buff Software designed to accompany the three new books in the popular PYB series, which allows players to learn new conventions, then practice using them by bidding wit...

$29.95 $24.95 £15.95

ISBN: 978-1-894154-87-1

Practice Your Slam Bidding

Barbara Seagram & Linda Lee

Software is no longer available in CD format, must be purchased as a digital download. System Requirements: IBM compatible computer; Windows; 16 Mb RAM; 10 Mb hard disk space; CD-ROM drive; at least 800 x 600 screen resolution. Software by Bridge Buff This CD-ROM is an interactive companion to three books in the Practice Your Bidding series by Bar...

$29.95 $24.95 £15.95

ISBN: 978-1-894154-59-8

Slam Bidding Conventions

Patty Tucker

Slam Bidding Conventions The Winning Bridge Conventions Series An Honors eBook Bridge students quickly discover that basic bidding will only get them so far. To improve it is necessary to master a certain number of bidding conventions, and be prepared both to play them and to play against them. Each of the books in this series covers a nu...

$17.95 $15.95 £9.95

ISBN: 978-1-55494-787-4

Standard Bidding with SAYC

Ned Downey & Ellen Pomer ("Caitlin")

What is Standard Bidding? This is an increasingly hard question to answer, but the proliferation of bridge on the Internet in pickup partnerships makes it imperative that someone does so. Perhaps the most popular natural system for the hundreds of thousands of online players worldwide is the Standard American Yellow Card, or SAYC. In this book, for...

$24.95 $19.95 £15.95

ISBN: 978-1-897106-03-7

Startup Bridge - And Beyond

Lynn Berg

I've Got Your Back! Nothing is scarier than not knowing what to expect—as we all know, knowledge is power. I'm here to inform you, encourage you and help you (and your partner) help yourselves. Use this book as a way to get into the mysteries of bridge and its most challenging form, duplicate. Sure, knowledge of basic bidding protocols is ne...

$23.95 $19.95 £12.95

ISBN: 978-1-77140-191-3

Surviving Duplicate Bridge: The first 23.69 points

Kathleen Vishner

Bridge partnerships can be fun. We all know that. Of course, they can also be difficult, maddening, disappointing, and frustrating. We all know that, too. But when the players of these partnerships are also spouses—well that's when things can get downright tricky—and only some of us know that. In this book, Kat...

$11.95 $11.95 £6.95

ISBN: 978-1-55494-761-4

The Pocket Guide to Acol Bridge

Mark Horton & Barbara Seagram

Do you ever need a quick hint about what to bid? Are you confused about what to lead from KJ10x? Have you forgotten what a reverse is? If you answered "Yes" to any of these questions, this is the book you need! And as well, it will be perfect for those times when you want to point to something and say "Look partner, it says here you should have d...

$9.95 $9.95 £5.95

ISBN: 978-1-897106-46-4

The Pocket Guide to Bridge

Barbara Seagram & Ray Lee

Do you need a quick hint about what to bid? Do you know what you are supposed to lead from KJ10x? Have you forgotten what a reverse is? If you answered 'yes' to any of these questions, this is the book that you need!...

$9.95 $9.95 £6.95

ISBN: 978-1-894154-41-3

The Pocket Guide to Bridge Conventions You Should Know

Barbara Seagram & Marc Smith

Using the same format as The Pocket Guide to Bridge, this book will provide a handy pocket summary of a number of popular bidding conventions. In a concise but readable manner, it summarizes the ideas presented in 25 Bridge Conventions You Should Know from the same author team — a book that is now the bestselling bridge title of the last 50 y...

$9.95 $9.95 £6.95

ISBN: 978-1-897106-65-5

The Pocket Guide to Chess

Jonathan Berry

A handy guide with the answers to your chess questions! Do you know how to checkmate with a bishop and a knight? Do you know the difference between a pin and a fork? Do you remember the best defense against the Queen's Gambit? If you answered 'No' to any of these questions, this is the book you need! Whether you are just starting out as a chess pla...

$9.95 $7.95 £6.95

ISBN: 978-1-894154-95-6

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

The Pocket Guide to Defensive 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 defensive cardplay. In a concise but readable manner, it summarizes most of the material presented in 25 Ways to be a Better Defender by the same author team....

$9.95 $9.95 £6.95

ISBN: 978-1-77140-004-6

The Pocket Guide to SAYC

Ned Downey & Ellen Pomer ("Caitlin")

Using the same format as The Pocket Guide to Bridge, this book will provide a handy pocket summary of the popular SAYC bidding system. In a concise but readable manner, it goes over the basic ideas of SAYC, which is the most popular natural system for online bridge players around the world. The contents are based on Standard Bidding with SAYC, by t...

$9.95 $9.95 £6.95

ISBN: 978-1-897106-62-4

Wanna Play Bridge the 2/1 Way?

Kathy Rolfe

Start Early! 2/1: More power, more fun This book can be used as an absolute beginner book, teaching the 2/1 bridge bidding system from the start. Use just Chapters 1-5 to teach children as young as 6! They can learn how to play before they are ready to learn how to bid. Older than 9, kids can move right along with adults into learning the bid...

$23.95 $19.95 £12.95

ISBN: 978-1-77140-180-7

What Does Partner Have? Book One

Timothy LeVan

A Bidding Review for You and Partner In Book One, the opponents pass. You see only your South hand. Analyze partner’s bids. What do they promise? Deny? Are they forcing? What cards and points are required? Review a Bidding Concept. Bid Example Deals. Consult What Does Partner Have? and Thoughts. Take the Quizzes and check you...

$18.95 $15.95 £9.95

ISBN: 978-1-77140-175-3

What Does Partner Have? Book Two

Timothy LeVan

A Bidding Review for All Four Players A continuation of Book One. You see only your South hand. Visualize everyone’s hands. What do their bids promise? Deny? Are they forcing? What cards and points are required? Review a Bidding Concept. Bid Example Deals. Consult What Does Partner Have? and Thoughts. Take the Quizzes and che...

$17.95 $14.95 £8.95

ISBN: 978-1-77140-176-0

What Does Partner Have? Teacher's Manual Book One

Timothy LeVan

Step-by-step exercises Teacher’s manual to accompany What Does Partner Have? Book One Visualize partner’s hand from his bids only. What do his bids promise? How many cards? How many points? Are they forcing? Chapters may be taught individually or as sets of classes. All activities are taught at bridge tables with cards and bidd...

$24.95 $19.95 £12.95

ISBN: 978-1-77140-177-7

What Does Partner Have? Teacher's Manual Book Two

Timothy LeVan

Step-by-step exercises Teacher’s manual to accompany What Does Partner Have? Book Two A continuation of Book One – now with all four players bidding. Step-by-step exercises visualize everyone’s hands from their bids only. What do their bids promise? How many cards? How many points? Are they forcing? Review new bids available now ...

$19.95 $16.95 £10.95

ISBN: 978-1-77140-178-4

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

Yes, No or Maybe: More Bidding Basics

David Glandorf

$21.95 $19.95 £12.95

ISBN: 978-1-77140-169-2

Yes, No or Maybe: More Bidding Basics Workbook

David Glandorf