Win at Bridge: A Teach Youself Guide (Teach Yourself Series) - Softcover

Bird, David

9780071740227: Win at Bridge: A Teach Youself Guide (Teach Yourself Series)

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0071740228 ISBN 13: 9780071740227

Publisher: McGraw-Hill, 2010

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Take your bridge skills to the next level

Win At Bridge is packed with interactive quizzes, insights, and insider tips to perfect your techniques and build up your skills. You can also assess your progress throughout the book with self-tests and chapter summaries.

One, five and ten-minute introductions to key principles to get you started.
Lots of instant help with common problems and quick tips for success, based on the authors’ many years of experience.
Tests in the book and online to keep track of your progress.
Extra online articles at teachyourself.com to give you a richer understanding of bridge.
Revised with a full glossary of terms and helpful links to bridge websites, so you can develop your interest in a fun and interactive way.

Topics include:
If the game is new to you; Making tricks in a single suit; The Play at No-Trumps; The Play in a suit contract; Opening Int and Responses; Opening Suit Bids of One and Responses; The Opener's Rebid; The Responder's Rebid; Techniques in No-Trumps; Techniques in a Suite Contract; The Scoring; Strong Two Level Openings; Opening Bids of Three and Four; Bidding Slams; Overcalls; Penalty and Take-Out Doubles; Basic Moves in Defence; ChaptDefense Leads, Signals and Discards; Different Forms of Bridge; Glossary of Bridge Terms and Phrases; Taking It Further

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About the Author:

David Bird is Britain's top bridge writer, with more than 70 books to his name. He is bridge correspondent for the Mail on Sunday and the Evening Standard and contributes regularly to bridge magazines around the world. He is best known for his humorous bridge fiction, featuring the pompous Abbot of the St Titus Monastery. As a player, he is a Grandmaster and has won thirteen national championships.

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