BOOKS ON BIDDING
 | 25 Bridge Conventions You Should Know 2nd Edition - Revised and Updated by Barbara Seagram • Marc Smith List Price: 192 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. It doesn't take long before beginning bridge players want to know more about bidding systems, and especially about conventions. Even social players are usually keen to add a few choice gadgets to their bidding arsenal. Here 25 basic conventions and treatments are carefully explained, and the reader is shown how they can fit into standard bidding methods. Each section ends with a summary chart as . . . read more. |
 | 25 More Conventions You Should Know by Barbara Seagram • David Bird List Price: 192 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. If you're comfortable with the material in Barbara Seagram's best-selling first book, then you're ready to move on to the more sophisticated bidding gadgets in this one. Even if you don't want to add all these to your own system, you need to be familiar with them because you'll find your opponents using them. Once again, each convention is clearly and simply explained, and you'll see how it fits . . . read more. |
 | 25 Ways to Compete in the Bidding by Barbara Seagram • Marc Smith List Price: 224 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. Aimed at the same novice/social/intermediate player as their first book in the award-winning '25' series, this new title deals with competitive auctions in which the opponents have opened the bidding. This is the most complex area of bridge bidding, and never, until now, has it been dealt with comprehensively in a book that is understandable by non-experts. . . . read more. |
 | Bridge Conventions in Depth by Matthew Granovetter • Pamela Granovetter List Price: 290 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. These wonderful agreements and gadgets turn your everyday bidding system into something personal, something that fits the exact style that you and your partner want to play. And now you can choose from some seventy expert-level ideas to add to your bidding arsenal, quickly and painlessly. . . . read more. |
 | Building a Bidding System by Roy Hughes List Price: 176 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. This book discusses the theory of bridge bidding for advanced players, with emphasis on the principles that need to underpin an effective bidding system. These include the concepts of Useful Space, Relays, Transfers, Dialogue Bidding, as well as the conflicting needs for a system that is robust, antagonistic, and also accurate. The ideas are illustrated with dozens of example hands from champions . . . read more. |
 | Competitive Bidding in the 21st Century by Marshall Miles List Price: 240 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. In this book, written for serious tournament players, Miles addresses the the complex arena of competitive bidding methods. Miles discusses current thinking, and recommends methods which will continue to be playable as bridge enters the 21st century. This book will appeal to more serious readers but can be enjoyed thoroughly by the advancing player. . . . read more. |
 | Cuebidding at Bridge A Modern Approach by Ken Rexford List Price: 200 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. Everyone knows that control-showing bids are the expert route to slam, but it is remarkable hard to find a comprehensive treatment of this vital area of the game. Until now, that is. This is an exhaustive work, covering a lot of territory. The average reader won't agree with everything he reads - and it would be a mammoth undertaking to try and adopt it all - but it will get them thinking about t . . . read more. |
 | Focus on Bidding by Danny Roth List Price: 160 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. This is not a book about systems, nor is it a book about conventions (although I confess I shall attempt to persuade you to adopt one or two in the course of it). This is a book about bidding and the places in the auction that we (and I use the word advisedly) go wrong. I don't care whether you prefer to play a weak or a strong notrump, or eight-card majors, or the Purple Spotted Forcing Club. Bu . . . read more. |
 | Following the Law by Larry Cohen List Price: 192 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. Following the LAW, the sequel to To Bid or Not to Bid, was published in 1994, and took the basic concepts explained in the first book to a higher level of sophistication, while giving many practical examples from expert play of how to use the Law of Total Tricks correctly. Both books are must-reads for every improving bridge player. . . . read more. |
 | Four-Suit Transfers (PYB) Practice Your Bidding Series by Barbara Seagram • Andy Stark List Price: 68 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. With these handy little books, you can: Learn a new convention, or extend your knowledge of it; Learn and practice by yourself using the unique quiz format; Practice with your partner using the specially selected sample hands, and compare your results with the recommended auctions. With these handy little books, you can: Learn a new convention, or extend your knowledge of it; Learn and practice b . . . read more. |
 | Improve Your Bidding Judgment by Neil Kimelman List Price: 192 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. Bridge players are taught numerous rules to help them make good bidding decisions, rules that involve things like point count, losing trick count, the Law of Total Tricks and a host of other evaluation methods. But eventually everyone discovers that there are more situations where these rules don't apply than where they do. This book fills a gap in bridge literature by discussing how to make deci . . . read more. |
 | It's Your Call by Marshall Miles List Price: 192 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. For about 25 years, Miles was the moderator of a monthly all-star bidding panel for a California bridge publication. This book is a compilation of his favorite problems from those years, together with the panel's views and the author's own trenchant comments. As ever, he goes his own way; he refuses, for example, to assign scores to various bids on the grounds that he wasn't going to give himse . . . read more. |
 | Larry Cohen's Bidding Challenge by Larry Cohen List Price: 192 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. This book puts the reader at the table in the world's most prestigious Invitational Pairs tournaments. The author presents real-life hands from several of these tournaments as bidding problems that you can try with your own favorite partner. Then you can read Cohen's insightful analysis of how each pair of hands should be bid, and compare your results with those of the world-class experts who act . . . read more. |
 | Modern Constructive Bidding by Marshall Miles List Price: 240 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. The logical follow-up to the author's best-selling Competitive Bidding in the 21st Century, this book deals with the latest expert thinking on constructive auctions at bridge. As usual, Miles' ideas are cutting edge, and not everything he recommends will appeal to everyone. However, also as usual, he challenges his readers to think and question what they are currently doing, and convince themselv . . . read more. |
 | Roman Keycard Blackwood (PYB) Practice Your Bidding Series by Barbara Seagram • Linda Lee List Price: 68 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. With these handy little books, you can: Learn a new convention, or extend your knowledge of it; Learn and practice by yourself using the unique quiz format; Practice with your partner using the specially selected sample hands, and compare your results with the recommended auctions. . . . read more. |
 | Splinter Bids (PYB) Practice Your Bidding Series by Barbara Seagram • Linda Lee List Price: 68 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. With these handy little books, you can: Learn a new convention, or extend your knowledge of it; Learn and practice by yourself using the unique quiz format; Practice with your partner using the specially selected sample hands, and compare your results with the recommended auctions. . . . read more. |
 | Stayman Auctions (PYB) Practice Your Bidding Series by Barbara Seagram • Linda Lee List Price: 68 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. With these handy little books, you can: Learn a new convention, or extend your knowledge of it; Learn and practice by yourself using the unique quiz format; Practice with your partner using the specially selected sample hands, and compare your results with the recommended auctions. . . . read more. |
 | The Complete Book On Balancing In Contract Bridge 1 copy remaining by Mike Lawrence List Price: 451 pages. Paperback. Since it was first published, this has been the definitive book on the tough topic of balancing your bridge hand. It examines auctions where the opponents bid something and you are given the opportunity to either let them have it or to balance. This revised and expanded edition is updated to reflect modern bidding practices and covers almost any possible auction. The cost of not balancing can be . . . read more. |
 | The Complete Book On Overcalls in Contract Bridge A Mike Lawrence Classic 2nd Edition by Mike Lawrence List Price: 320 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. Originally published in 1980, this book quickly became recognized as a must-read for any would-be bridge expert, and has never been out of print. Now, almost 30 years later, the author has revised, updated and expanded it to take into account modern developments in the theory and practice of competitive bidding. Anyone who is at all serious about improving their game needs to own a copy of this . . . read more. |
 | The NoTrump Zone by Danny Kleinman List Price: 192 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. Notrump openings, and the constructive auctions that follow them, are two of the most neglected areas in bridge literature. Following on from his popular articles in the ACBL Bulletin, Kleinman discusses the principles behind notrump bids and rebids in a variety of situations, emphasizing the ideas and concepts rather than attempting to teach a series of rigid rules. . . . read more. |
 | The Weak Notrump How To Play it, How To Play Against It by Andy Stark List Price: 200 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. All North American players are taught to play using a strong notrump, but that is not the way of the rest of the world. Even in North America, weak notrump systems, or even Kamikaze notrump systems, are becoming more common. This book discusses the advantages and disadvantages of playing a system with a weaker notrump opening, and shows how the 1NT range impacts the rest of the bidding system. E . . . read more. |
 | To Bid or Not To Bid The Law of Total Tricks by Larry Cohen List Price: 240 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. Since its publication in 1992, To Bid or Not to Bid has sold over 50,000 copies in English alone and has been published in several other languages. Undoubtedly the best-selling bridge book of the 1990s, its lucid exposition of the empirical Law of Total Tricks (a simple guide to making the right decisions in competitive bridge auctions) has made it a book that literally every serious bridge playe . . . read more. |
 | Wielding The Axe The Vanishing Art of the Penalty Double by Augie Boehm List Price: 162 pages. Paperback. Nothing exemplifies the keen competitive spirit of tournament bridge better than the penalty double. Acquire a feel for opportunistic doubles, add a potent weapon to your arsenal, avoid dangerous gambles, and become a more feared opponent. . . . read more. |
 | Win At Duplicate Bridge Bid Difficult Bridge Hands Like An Expert by Fred Parker List Price: 210 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. This book teaches modern bridge bidding techniques to the intermediate duplicate bridge player. It describes and fully explains all modern conventions, including the two-over-one system. The book is full of examples on how to bid difficult hands, and explains the nuances of expert bidding practices. It advises the player which conventions are most useful and how to play them. It is an invaluable . . . read more. |
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