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The Ultimate Politics and History Quiz
This book provides 500 thought-provoking Irish and international history and politics quiz questions, together with their exceptionally diverse solutions. While some are relatively straightforward, many pose quite the conundrum.
Countdown to Winning Bridge
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.
Entry Management
Each book this series is a collection of bridge problems that provide a fun way to practice and develop your skill in an important cardplay technique at bridge. These books are designed to add an extra dimension to the detailed instruction contained in the Bridge Technique series (Bird & Smith).
The Art of Declarer Play
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...
Bridge the Silver Way
David Silver's three books of humorous bridge stories have received terrific throughout the bridge world. In all of them, the hero is the author's alter ego, Professor Silver, first as a teacher in a community college, and then as a bridge consultant as he moves into the realms of literary parody. Astute readers will recognise allusions to the works of Hemingway, Conan Doyle, Dickens and others, while movie fans will enjoy the bridge versions of 'Citizen Kane', 'Casablanca' and 'Star Trek, TNG'. And when the professor takes on Death or the Devil in the ultimate post-mortem analysis, you just know who's going to come out a winner.
Tricks with Trumps
"The Bridge Technique Series is designed to take the reader through the most important aspects of card-play technique at bridge. Each book of the series focuses on a different topic, and wherever possible the tactics and strategy are considered from the point of view of both declarer and defenders. This book covers the fundamental strategies available for developing extra tricks in the trump suit for both declarer and the defense. Topics covered include dummy reversal, the trump coup (and how to defend against it), the en passant play, trump promotions and uppercuts on defense, the fight for trump control, and unusual positions such as the smother play and the Devil's Coup."--Back cover
Saints and Sinners
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.
BT-A Entry Management
"The Bridge Technique Series is designed to take the reader through the most important aspects of card-play technique at bridge. Each book of the series focuses on a different topic, and wherever possible the tactics and strategy are considered from the point of view of both declarer and defenders. Bridge is a partnership game, and maintaining communications between the two hands is equally important for declarer and defenders. This book begins with basic management of entries within a single suit, and goes on to discuss issues and common stratagems that relate to creating entries, killing the opposition entries, and disrupting smooth communication for the opponents."--Back cover.
Playing with the Bridge Legends
Since winning the world's most prestigious pairs event in his early twenties, with the equally precocious Michael Rosenberg, Barnet Shenkin has continued to build a an impressive bridge career. Over the last 25 years, he has had the opportunity to play with and against some of the best in the world, and in this book he recounts his favourite hands and stories. While much of his early career was based in Scotland and England, Barnet now lives in Florida and is becoming well-known on the US tournament scene. The book comes to a climax with the US team's record-breaking world title win in January 2000, an event which Barnet covered as a journalist.
15 Winning Cardplay Techniques
Two of the world's best bridge writers have produced a fine summary of fifteen declarer play techniques. Tim Bourke's elegant and instructive deals illustrate the many variations of each technique. Everything is explained by David Bird with the clarity and lean writing style for which he is well known. Your dummy play needs improving, right? You would like a few tricks up your sleeve? This is the book for you You will find the reading experience enjoyable and illuminating.
