Countdown to Winning Bridge

Marc Smith, Tim Bourke

ISBN 10: 1894154053 / ISBN 13: 9781894154055

Published by Master Point Press, CA, 2005

About this Item

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.

Seller Inventory # LU-9781894154055

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Countdown to Winning Bridge
• Publisher: Master Point Press, CA
• Publication Date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1894154053
• ISBN 13: 9781894154055
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: New
• Weight: 299 grams

About this title

Synopsis

"If you have been playing bridge without counting the hand, perhaps for years, you are about to enter a new world." Thus David Bird, in the foreword to the original edition of this book. Thousands of readers learned to improve their play from the book version, and now it is available in an interactive CDROM, using Fred Gitelman's state-of-the-art Bridge Base engine. The reader can play through every example himself, as many times as he wants, bringing an "at-the-table" feel to the learning process.

About the Author

Tim Bourke (Canberra, Australia) is renowned as the world's foremost expert on bridge literature. He is himself the author of numerous books on the game.Marc Smith (UK) is probably best-known as the co-author of the bestselling "25 Bridge Conventions You Should Know." However, he has many other book to his credit, and contributed regularly to BRIDGE magazine in the UK.