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Do you ever feel the frustration of bidding a hand to the correct contract and see it fail as every finesse lets you down? Then a club expert shows you how, with slightly better technique you could have succeeded.
There are three significant stages in a bridge player’s career according to Ron Klinger and Andrew Kambites. In Card Play Made Easy 1 they say that the beginner knows naught about finessing and cashes winners left, right and centre!
David Bird outlines fun, easy to follow tips in bite-size chunks. With 52 tips there is enough to keep bridge players occupied all year - both novices and old hands can develop their game with confidence and see their game improve week by week.
Tips for every occasion - from the age-old adage 'bad players lead from jacks' to the high-risk strategy 'use the dangerous entry first'. No matter how well or how badly the game is going, there is something to aid and inspire everyone in this guide.
Your partner East opens with 3S but North doubles and South bids 4H passed out. Partner leads the SA, then SK and finally SQ. Dummy ruffs this third trick with the HJ. What is your plan seeing these cards:
NORTH
S J7
H AQJ
D KJ4
C A8752
EAST WEST (YOU)
S AKQ? S 96
H ? H KT3
D ? D T9862
C ? C T94
SOUTH
S 82?
H ?
D ?
C ?
Everyone can become a better bridge player by improving their memory! Ron Klinger shows how in this book: Improve your bridge memory. Dividing the book into three sections - beginners, intermediate and advanced, he discusses how to remember vital principles of play, which cards are high and how to cause memory problems for your opponents. Learn how memory can improve with age. Klinger discusses how the right mental attitude can make a big difference.
Bidding is also included. We all have either transgressed or experienced when a member of a partnership forgets the system, passes a transfer or leaves the partner to play in a cue-bid. Ron Klinger shows a number of simple ways to avoid these memory lapses. Borrow it now and re-borrow it in 12 months. It will still have something for everyone to take away. The book that keeps on giving!
DC asked: My partner opened 1C (with two plus clubs) and I'm holding 4 hearts to the king, 4 clubs to the queen, 4 diamonds to the queen and a singleton spade, what would your response be?
I bid 1D, she said 2NT so I went 3NT and we made 7...
PG responded: Despite the most accurate bidding, you need to expect some hands not to make. Bidding systems cover the majority of hands not all of them.
The Impact of Opening Leads Against Notrump Contracts – How to Take More Tricks on Defense by Audrey Grant.
This book looks at defending against no trump contracts. It focuses on the opening lead and how it can affect the subsequent defence.
It covers opening leads such as 4th highest from longest and strongest . . .; when to lead partner’s suit; what to lead from a sequence; when it’s time to take the tricks and run and lots more.
Developed by the American Contract Bridge League (ACBL) the content was originally written in 1986 by Audrey Grant and recently updated to more accurately convey the latest duplicate bridge ideas and philosophy.
After defending a deal do you and your partner wonder “Could we have defeated the contract?” In this book you will learn how to defeat contracts that the declarer would make if you don’t defend carefully.
Guidelines are given for handling specific situations on defence: opening leads, third-hand play, second-hand play and signals and lots more. This book has lots of examples and easy to follow explanations.
TH asked: When you are declarer in a suit contract, you count your losers, then work out a plan to achieve your contract. (In a no-trump contract, you count your winners.) What is the best way to count your losers? Is there a quick way to do this? Or is it just practice?
When you are planning your hands as declarer you can be fairly precise as you can look at both dummy's and declarer's holdings.
