Bridge books - 28

"Bridge Without Error" by Ron Klinger is a new idea in bridge quiz books where the author invites the reader to discover the errors in the bidding, play and defence.

"Creative Card Play" by James Kauder: The cure for unimaginative bridge". Read this book and your opponents will think that you have ESP; make your table presence known and you will win more often.

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"Swiss Match Challenge" by Jeff Rubens presents a set of fifty-six challenging problems in bidding, declarer play, and defense, set up as a series of eight seven-board matches against strong Swiss Team opponents.

"Mike Lawrence's Bidding Quizzes 1: The Uncontested Auction" enables you to strengthen your bidding skills with a world champion of contract bridge.

"Major Suit Raises" by Mike Lawrence covers everything you need to know about responses to major suit openings, including: The Limit raise, The Constructive Raise, Jacoby 2NT and much more.

"The Jacoby and Texas Transfers Convention" by Mike Lawrence is a booklet that explains how to integrate these two inter-twined conventions into your bidding system.

Everybody likes to bid slams, but for many players the failure rate is alarmingly high. Improve your game and increase your enjoyment by following the simple rules outlined in the booklet "Master Slam Bidding" by Hugh Kelsey.

"Slam Bidding" by Hugh Walter Kelsey is much more comprehensive than the Master Slam booklet and is a complete look at all of the latest slam bidding techniques including splinters, cue bids and Roman Keycard Blackwood

"Psychological Strategy in Contract Bridge" by Fred Karpin is a book that covers The Techniques of Deception and Harassment in Bidding and Play.

"The Tricky Game, Deceptive Plays to Winning Bridge" by Hugh Walter Kelsey covers topics such as deceptive carding and confusing the opponents' signalling.

Should you ever pass a 13-point hand? Can an 11-point hand be strong enough to be opened? Holding three four-card suits, which suit do you bid first? These questions, and many more, are discussed in "Goren Settles the Bridge Arguments" by Charles H Goren.

"Auction Tactics in the Game of Bridge" by Bryant Mccampbell is another classic from the game of Auction bridge

First printed in 1955, "The Fundamentals of Contract Bridge" by Charles Goren is the perfect book for the average bridge player by the teacher who rates amongst the highest in international standing.

"Bridge is My Game" by Charles Goren gives a unique inside look at the master's lifetime of high-level play and an 8-step approach to simpler winning bridge.

"Play Bridge with Goren" is 'easy to use, easy to read, easy to learn'. It contains the official Goren point count summary and has chapters on: Scoring, Overcalls, Responses, Rebids, Take-out doubles, Slam bidding, Opening lead tables.

Have you ever felt like kicking your partner under the table? "Play Bridge with any Partner, Even a Strranger" by Charles Goren shows you how to cope with bad players as well as good ones.

"Point Count Bidding in Contract Bridge" by Charles H Goren is a classic (revised in 1953) that 'presents a method of bidding that is simple to learn and is far more accurate' than any previous methods or systems at the time.

"Bridge Bidding" covers the Goren point count method in an easy to follow guide containing 29 lessons and 36 quizzes. By John Mallon with an introduction by Charles Goren

If you continually pick up bad hands, then "Defensive Tips for Bad Card Holders" by Eddie Kantar is the book for you.

"The American Forcing Minor" by Joe Lutz and Jerold Fink is a new idea in biddins system incorporating Kickback and also covering 123 and APC carding.

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"Secrets of Expert Card Play" by David Bird and Tony Forrester teaches you how the world's bridge experts make the most of their cards.

"Bidding a Bridge Hand" by Terence Reese uses numerous examples to help the reader find the best bid. Along the way, subtle topics such as hand evaluation are highlighted.

"Your Bridge Psychology" by F. L. Holmes. A highly instructive and entertaining treatise on the cultivation of a bridge personality, and the art of handling one's self, one's partner and one's opponents.