Marty Bergen, the ten-time US National Champion, covers the hands which are ideal for the negative double, those which are imperfect but still qualify, and those which you must not double. Also included are aspects of hand valuation, opener's replies to the negative double, rebids by the doubler, and when to play for penalties.

Negative Doubles for Acol Players (Master Bridge Series)

Humor & Entertainment

Bourke, Tim

Bergen,Marty

Puzzles & Games

Cassell

Presenting 60 bridge problems in the play of the cards, this quiz book challenges readers to test their skills, and aims to help improving players progress towards expert status. Hugh Kelsey has twice won the Gold Cup, and Tim Bourke has won five Australian national titles.

Bridge Quiz for Improving Players (Master Bridge Series)

Kelsey, Hugh Walter

Victor Gollancz

This advanced-level quiz book consists of 60 hands from World Championships over the years (the most recent of which was held in Maastricht). Each problem is clearly presented, and readers can check their answers against the thorough explanations at the back of the book.

Maastricht Challenge Bridge Quiz

Batsford

The Ultimate Politics and History Quiz

Scally, William

Tara Press

2014 IBPA Master Point Press Book of the Year! From Master Point Press: "This year we had a plethora of terrific books to choose among for our Book of the Year. In another year, three of our other candidates might have won the award. However, this year, one book stood out from the rest. The Art of Declarer Play belongs in the ranks of Watson, Reese and Kelsey as one of the best books on declarer play ever written. If you buy only one bridge book this year, this should be the one." ADVANCED / EXPERT Anybody can make straightforward contracts. THE ART OF DECLARER PLAY is about how to handle the rest. If you already have a good grasp of declarer-play technique, the blocking and unblocking plays, the eliminations and the squeezes, then this is the book for you. Bourke and Corfield begin where most of the other books finish, and reveal what goes on inside the mind of an expert, explaining how to anticipate the likely distribution, how to use logic and visualization, how to listen to the cards, and many other ways to make ‘impossible’ contracts. By understanding the thought processes that lead to a successful strategy in the most challenging of contracts, you will be able to replicate them for yourself, and bid with the confidence that comes from expert-level declarer play. If you want your cardplay to improve out of all recognition, If you want to learn the secrets of expert-level technique, If you are not afraid to challenge yourself, Then read on…

The Art of Declarer Play

CORFIELD, JUSTIN

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

: A disparate group of travelers meets by chance at a motel while on the way to the Nationals in Canterbury, Florida, and naturally they begin swapping stories. Sound familiar? Professor Silver returns in a new collection of short stories, in which literary parody is interwoven with Tim Bourke's brilliant bridge hands. Murder, mystery, sex and the supernatural – and that's just in the first three tales.

The Canterbury Bridge Tales

Silver, David

Master Point Pr

Did you ever notice how the bridge experts always seem to know where every card is? How their finesses always seem to succeed? How their guesses are nearly always perfect? This book won't teach you to play quite that well, but it will introduce you to some very simple techniques that the experts use on play and defense. As declarer or defender, counting the hand is the one thing that will help you the most. But how do you keep track of all those cards? This book will show you how - explaining the tricks of the trade, and helping anyone who can count to thirteen to become a much better player. Full of practical examples of how to apply the information you get from counting, this book is sure to improve your game.

Countdown to Winning Bridge

Smith, Marc

David Bird's witty stories about the bridge-playing monks of St Titus and their obnoxious Abbot appear regularly in bridge magazines throughout North America and the UK, and have formed the basis of several previous collections. This latest book is presented in a new quiz format, so that readers can try to solve the bridge problems before the monks themselves encounter them; at the end of the book, an annotated Answers section allows readers to rate their own game.

Saints and Sinners: The St. Titus Bridge Challenge

Bird,David

A collection of bridge problems which provide a fun way to practice an important play technique. This is part of a twelve book series that will add an extra dimension to the Bridge Technique series (Bird &amp; Smith), which won the American Bridge Teachers' Association Book of the Year award in 2002.

Elimination Plays (Test Your Bridge Technique)

The Simple Squeeze (Test Your Bridge Technique)

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