The Bridge World

BOOKS ON DEFENSE

	25 Ways to Be a Better Defender by Barbara Seagram • David Bird List Price: ~~$18.95~~ Price: $22.94 This is a Special Order item. 216 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. Defense is the hardest part of playing bridge, but that doesn't mean that it's impossible to learn. In the final book of the bestselling '25' series, the authors explain how to make a plan as a defender: how to work out from the auction and play what declarer probably has, and which of the strategies available to defenders is likely to be successful. Opening leads, signaling and discarding are . . . read more.
	Better Signalling Now by Mark Horton List Price: ~~$15.95~~ Price: $19.94 This is a Special Order item. 128 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. Good defensive carding agreements can improve the scores of any partnership in any session they play. This text takes readers through the modern options in terms of defensive signalling, and allows them to construct a system that suits their own style. Based on a previous book by the same author, this revised edition incorporates numerous suggestions and improvements from experts Tim Bourke and S . . . read more.
	Defend These Hands with Me by Julian Pottage List Price: ~~$18.95~~ Price: $22.94 This is a Special Order item. 192 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. Julian Pottage worked on a number of books with the late Terence Reese, and this one pays homage to a man who was certainly the best bridge writer of his time. One of Reese's classics, Play these hands with me, pioneered the 'over-the-shoulder' style of bridge writing. What that book did for declarer play, the present one will do for defense: the reader can follow the thinking of an expert player . . . read more.
	Defending Notrump Contracts (TYBT) Test Your Bridge Technique Series by David Bird • Tim Bourke List Price: ~~$9.95~~ Price: $13.94 This is a Special Order item. 104 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. Short and full of practical examples, each book takes the reader through the most important aspects of card-play technique at bridge. Where appropriate, play is examined from the point of view both of declarer and defenders. Full of quizzes and chapter reviews, these award-winning books will also reinforce the bridge concepts you learn. . . . read more.
	Defending Suit Contracts (TYBT) Test Your Bridge Technique Series by David Bird • Tim Bourke List Price: ~~$9.95~~ Price: $13.94 This is a Special Order item. 104 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. Short and full of practical examples, each book takes the reader through the most important aspects of card-play technique at bridge. Where appropriate, play is examined from the point of view both of declarer and defenders. Full of quizzes and chapter reviews, these award-winning books will also reinforce the bridge concepts you learn. . . . read more.
	Eddie Kantar Teaches: Advanced Bridge Defense by Eddie Kantar List Price: ~~$25.95~~ Price: $29.94 This is a Special Order item. 240 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. American Bridge Teachers Association Book of the Year Award Winner. Eddie Kantar's various beginner books have sold hundreds of thousands of copies in ten different languages, not least because of his unique style and the humor that he introduces into the learning process. Advanced Bridge Defense is intended to cover some of the more complex concepts of bridge defense for the modern advancing pla . . . read more.
	Eddie Kantar Teaches: Modern Bridge Defense by Eddie Kantar List Price: ~~$23.95~~ Price: $27.94 This is a Special Order item. 240 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. Eddie Kantar's various beginner books have sold hundreds of thousands of copies in ten different languages, not least because of his unique style and the humor that he introduces into the learning process. Modern Bridge Defense is intended to cover the basic concepts of bridge defense, and will undoubtedly be a standard teaching tool and reference work for the next quarter-century. The topics cov . . . read more.
	Leading Questions in Bridge by Sally Brock List Price: ~~$18.95~~ Price: $22.94 This is a Special Order item. 176 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. Perhaps more points are won and lost on the opening lead than at any other time in a bridge hand. With only the bidding and his own thirteen cards as guidance, the opening leader must make a decision that has the potential, at one stroke, to determine the outcome of the play for better or worse. In this book, a top player and writer takes the reader through the questions that need to be asked bef . . . read more.
	Matchpoint Defense by Jim Priebe List Price: ~~$18.95~~ Price: $22.94 This is a Special Order item. 200 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. If defense is the hardest part of playing bridge (and it is!) then defending at matchpoint scoring is the toughest challenge a player can face. Every trick matters, irrespective of the contract, and every decision is potentially critical. In Thinking on Defense Jim Priebe introduced the idea of visualization, picturing likely hands for declarer and basing defensive strategy on those. In this book . . . read more.
	Pathways to Better Bridge Defense by Danny Roth List Price: ~~$14.95~~ Price: $18.94 This is a Special Order item. 184 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. Become a better defender! So you tend to get dealt very bad hands. I know exactly how you feel! But, facing the facts of life and recognizing that it is not your fault, you are going to have to accommodate this failing and improve your defense. It's a hard part of the game; even in international competitions, the standard of defensive play is, to put it kindly, modest. Yes, you will get plenty of . . . read more.
	Planning in Defense (BT) Bridge Technique Series by David Bird • Marc Smith List Price: ~~$9.95~~ Price: $13.94 This is a Special Order item. 64 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. Short and full of practical examples, each book takes the reader through the most important aspects of card-play technique at bridge. Where appropriate, play is examined from the point of view both of declarer and defenders. Full of quizzes and chapter reviews, these award-winning books will also reinforce the bridge concepts you learn. At this price, what bridge player could stand not to have al . . . read more.
	Positive Defense at Bridge by Terence Reese • Julian Pottage List Price: ~~$18.95~~ Price: $22.94 This is a Special Order item. 160 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. This book was originally published in 1985, and in this new edition is substantially revised and expanded. It is a collection of bridge problems designed to teach players how to think along the right lines at the bridge table. Anyone who absorbs even a fraction of the ideas presented here will himself making contracts that might have been defeated, and defeating contracts that might have been mad . . . read more.
	The Setting Trick Practical Problems in Bridge Defense by Ian McCance List Price: ~~$18.95~~ Price: $22.94 This is a Special Order item. 160 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. This is a book of problems in defensive cardplay, all the deals being selected from real events. And that means that for once in a problem book, you're not up against a declarer who will always play perfectly. Indeed, sometimes the point of the problem is to take advantage of the opportunity that a slip by declarer has given you. As the title implies, the emphasis throughout is solely on defeatin . . . read more.
	Thinking on Defense by Jim Priebe List Price: ~~$18.95~~ Price: $22.94 This is a Special Order item. 192 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. Defense is the most difficult part of bridge, and for most players, the hardest part of defense is figuring out what to do. In this book, the reader is shown step-by-step how to visualize declarer's cards from the bidding and play, and then how to use this information to form a plan for the defense. This book is based on Jim Priebe's popular articles 'Visualization on Defense' which appeared in t . . . read more.