Contract Bridge Blue Book

Contract Bridge Blue Book

Author: Ely Culbertson

Publisher: Ishi Press

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 392

ISBN-13: 9784871876001

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Contract Bridge Blue Book is, without doubt, the most famous book on the Game of Contract Bridge ever written. It is a landmark work, mentioned in every book on the history of bridge. As a result of the success of this work, the Culbertson Bidding System was the most popular system the world. Ely Culbertson had a nationwide syndicated column on bridge that was carried in hundreds of newspapers daily. This authoritative book is the master work on the Culbertson (Approach-Forcing) System of Contract Bridge. Here is a thoroughly comprehensive and easily understandable presentation of Ely Culbertson's scientific principles of Contract bridge now standard throughout the world. In these pages too are the reasons underlying the Culbertson methods which make them unbeatable. Reading this famous book you can follow step-by-step the inexorable logic of Ely Culbertson, world's greatest card analyst, as he brings for you the soundness of this simple way of winning at Contract Bridge. Scores of books and hundreds of articles have been written about his ideas - but here, in Ely Culbertson's own work, you can learn and profit at first hand.


The Complete Book on Balancing in Contract Bridge

The Complete Book on Balancing in Contract Bridge

Author: Mike Lawrence

Publisher: Baron Barclay Bridge Supplies

Published: 2013-01-16

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780939460700

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This revised and expanded edition examines bridge auctions where the opponents bid something and you have the opportunity to either let them have it or to balance. The cost of not balancing can be huge, but you must weigh the cost of passing against the cost of bidding and getting a bad result. Lawrence's discussion of hand evaluation and planning a balancing auction goes beyond generic rules. Hundreds of examples help you develop judgment


Beginning Bridge

Beginning Bridge

Author: Barbara Seagram

Publisher: Master Point Press

Published: 2008-06

Total Pages: 220

ISBN-13: 9781897106334

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Written for complete beginners, this book is based on material that Barbara Seagram uses in her own classes to introduce hundreds of new players to the game every year. The book will take readers to the point where they can enjoy a social game with friends or begin to explore their local bridge club.


What America Read

What America Read

Author: Gordon Hutner

Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 466

ISBN-13: 0807832278

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Despite the vigorous study of modern American fiction, today's readers are only familiar with a partial shelf of a vast library. Gordon Hutner describes the distorted, canonized history of the twentieth-century American novel as a record of modern classic


The New York Times Bridge Book

The New York Times Bridge Book

Author: Alan Truscott

Publisher: Macmillan

Published: 2004-08

Total Pages: 278

ISBN-13: 9780312331078

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A guide to the popular card game includes anecdotes about great players, major tournaments, scandals, and strategies that make bridge so legendary.


The Complete Idiot's Guide to Bridge, 3rd Edition

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Bridge, 3rd Edition

Author: H. Anthony Medley

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2012-08-07

Total Pages: 412

ISBN-13: 1615642609

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Learning bridge isn't like learning poker or blackjack, where the basic rules can be explained in a few minutes. Entire books have been written on the bidding aspects alone, and learning the language of bridge can be intimidating to new players. But 60 million bridge players worldwide is evidence enough that people don't seem to be discouraged by the game's challenging rules and concepts. And why should they be when there's The Complete Idiot's GuideĀ® to Bridge, Third Edition, to teach them the game in a fun and easy-to-understand format? This new edition includes modern bidding techniques and examples to make learning the game even easier, a pull-out reference card for beginning players to have at the table with them as they learn the game, and bonus chapters online that cover some of the more advanced aspects of the game.