Bridge Cardplay. This item is unavailable.Bridge Cardplay

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 - each ending with a short Quiz.

The topics covered in this third book, on Discarding Losers, are:

• Discarding to reduce the loser total
• Should I draw trumps immediately?
• Establishing discards
• Loser on loser play
• Combining different chances
• Planning the necessary discards

DAVID BIRD (Southampton, UK) is the world's most prolifi c bridge writer, with over 150 bridge books to his name. Known for the clarity of his writing and explanations, he has won the American Bridge Teachers' Association Book of the Year Award a record nine times. His celebrated humorous fi ction series, featuring the cantankerous Abbot, has run for over 45 years.

Planning the Play of a Bridge Hand (with Barbara Seagram) Planning the Defense (with Barbara Seagram) Winning Notrump Leads (with Taf Anthais) Winning Duplicate Tactics