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  "Test Your Match Play", "The Tough Game" and "The Needle Match" are a series of three books that test your declarer play in the imaginary settings of the Gold Cup. In "Challenge Match" Hugh Kelsey continues with the formula that proved successful in these three books, but the settings is subtly changed, for you are not playing a Gold Cup final this time. Your deadly rivals, still convinced that they are the better team, have challenged you to a grand show-down over sixty-four boards, the losers to contribute big money to the charity of the winner's choice. Naturally you cannot ignore such insolence. The south seat is yours throughout the match and the result is in your hands. You are faced with a difficult problem in play or defense on every board, and it will take all your skill and resolution to come out on top. Win or lose, you are sure to enjoy the challenge and to profit from the lessons of the hands.  
           
 
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Test Your Card Play - 1
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Test Your Card Play 1
 
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Test Your Card Play series
by Hugh Kelsey

 
The "Test Your Card Play" series of books, and many other books on advanced play by this prolific author have given Hugh Kelsey a well-deserved place in any list of the world's best bridge writers.
 
 
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Test Your Card Play - 1
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Test Your Card Play 5
 
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"Test Your Card Reading"   Buy from Amazon.com Buy from Amazon.co.uk
by Hugh Kelsey offers a series of problems in analyzing what cards your opponents have.
       
"Test Your Communications"   Buy from Amazon.com Buy from Amazon.co.uk
by Hugh Kelsey covers ducking and hold-up plays, blocking and unblocking moves, avoidance plays and entry destroying coups.
       
"Test Your Defensive Play"   Buy from Amazon.com Buy from Amazon.co.uk
by Hugh Kelsey focuses on problems caused by carelessness and lack of concentration.
       
"Test Your Elimination Play"   Buy from Amazon.com Buy from Amazon.co.uk
by Hugh Kelsey presents a series of problems involving stripping of the hand and a throw in.
       
"Test Your Finessing"   Buy from Amazon.com Buy from Amazon.co.uk
by Hugh Kelsey covers timing the finesse, playing the card, taking the right finesse, rejecting the finesse in favor of a better alternative and more.
       
"Test Your Pairs Play"   Buy from Amazon.com Buy from Amazon.co.uk
by Hugh Kelsey covers duplicate techniques for the declarer and defender in the form of 36 quizzes.
       
"Test Your Safety Play"   Buy from Amazon.com Buy from Amazon.co.uk
by Hugh Kelsey presents quizzes on safety plays. Essential knowledge for the improving bridge player, especially at rubber bridge or IMP scoring.
       
"Test Your Percentages "   Buy from Amazon.com Buy from Amazon.co.uk
by Hugh Kelsey shows you the correct play for numerous suit combinations.
       
"Test Your Timing"   Buy from Amazon.com Buy from Amazon.co.uk
by Hugh Kelsey teaches you how to play your cards in the proper order.
       
"Test Your Trump Control "   Buy from Amazon.com Buy from Amazon.co.uk
by Hugh Kelsey teaches you that maintaining control is often a matter of conceding losers and taking winners at the right time.
 
 
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  This "First, Second, Third, Fourth " series is a set of four books by Alfred Sheinwold, editor of the American Contract Bridge League Bulletin, and well-known author and lecturer.
First Book of Bridge: The Basics and Bidding.
Second Book of Bridge: The Play of the Hand.
Third Book of Bridge: How to Bid and Play in Duplicate Tournaments.
Fourth Book of bridge: How to Improve Your Game  
 
             
 
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First Book of Bridge
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  In the third book, "How to Bid and Play in Duplicate Tournaments" Freddie Sheinwold has simplified for the average player the technique of duplicate bidding and play. With concise explanations, graphic illustrations of many hands and with a new convention of his own, Mr. Sheinwold shows the way to get the most out of your cards. He demonstrates clearly how to calculate your risk in sacrificing, how to be sure to bid to slam, how to reach the contract which gives you the most points, how to get "top on the board." Here too, the laws and penalties which apply to tournament play are fully explained. This book will be an indispensable handbook for the player with ambition to become a winner in club tournaments, and to gain master points in sectional and national play. It is written for the player of average ability, but players of top skill will also gain much from the book  
     
             
 
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