Knack Bridge for Everyone: A Step-By-Step Guide To Rules, Bidding, And Play Of The Hand

by D. W. Crisfield, Eli Burakian (Photographer), Stephen Gorman (Photographer)

Overview

Bridge is a famously challenging card game, one that’s next to impossible to learn without a whole host of visual aids. But books on the subject all too often seem to ignore this. Enter Knack Bridge for Everyone, which takes a step-by-step, visual approach to explaining the game clearly to beginners and intermediates. With 400 full-color photos, as well as numerous charts and diagrams, it begins with the rules and the fundamentals of bidding, play, defense, and scoring. It then takes the bidding up a notch by introducing more bidding techniques and strategies for winning.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781599216157
Publisher:	Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Publication date:	01/06/2010
Series:	Knack: Make It Easy
Pages:	256
Sales rank:	439,697
Product dimensions:	8.40(w) x 7.90(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

D. W. Crisfield has been playing bridge for about 30 years, seriously for the past 15 years. I have also been teaching bridge for the past 15 years. She recently won the Miles NLM Pairs at the North American Bridge Championships held in Boston and was featured in the Bridge Bulletin—a monthly magazine that is sent to everyone registered with the American Contract Bridge League. Crisfield has written thirty books; this is her first on bridge.

Table of Contents

Table of ContentsChapter 1 Rules of BridgeChapter 2 Introductory BiddingChapter 3 Playing a HandChapter 4 ScoringChapter 5 No Trump Openers and ResponsesChapter 6 Playing a NT handChapter 7 Convenient MinorChapter 8 RespondingChapter 9 Next Step BiddingChapter 10 LeadsChapter 11 OvercallsChapter 12 DoublesChapter 13 Other Defense StrategiesChapter 14 When to Pull TrumpChapter 15 Preemptive Bids and ResponsesChapter 16 Stealing the bidChapter 17 2C and responsesChapter 18 Looking for SlamChapter 19 Other Ways to Show a Big HandChapter 20 Resource Directory