Bridge Endplays for Everyone

Bridge Endplays for Everyone
Author: David Bird
Publisher: Master Point Press
Total Pages: 276
Release: 2008
Genre: Games & Activities
ISBN: 9781897106365

Endplays are an aspect of bridge declarer play that many intermediate players think are beyond them. Yet while they can be extremely complex, the basic principles are not. Using a straightforward, conversational style with recaps and quizzes, this book will make endplays understandable to many readers who have been afraid to attempt to learn them.

Bridge for Everyone

Bridge for Everyone
Author: D. W. Crisfield
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 257
Release: 2023-10-01
Genre: Games & Activities
ISBN: 1493069586

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 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, it begins with the rules and the fundamentals of bidding, play, defense, and scoring. Not only does it give you what it takes to hold your ground no matter what your hand, it then takes the bidding up a notch by introducing more techniques—and strategies for winning.

Planning the Play of a Bridge Hand

Planning the Play of a Bridge Hand
Author: Barbara Seagram
Publisher: Master Point Press
Total Pages: 236
Release: 2009
Genre: Games & Activities
ISBN: 9781897106518

This book, starting from the basics, explains how to make a plan as a declarer. The reader learns how to recognise which technique to apply on a given deal, both in notrump contracts and suit contracts.

Improve Your Declarer Play

Improve Your Declarer Play
Author: Baron Barclay
Publisher: Baron Barclay Bridge Supplies
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2013-10-07
Genre: Bridge whist
ISBN: 9780939460380

This second title in Audrey Grant's Bookmark Series teaches how to implement the endplay in bridge. In some suit combinations it's better to have the suit led by the opponents into the declarer's strength. Learn how to recognize suits better led by defender, identify the exit card, eliminate defenders' options and play the throw-in. There are explanatory hands plus ten practice deals. Fold-out bookmark flaps reference the essential ideas.

Playing Advanced Bridge

Playing Advanced Bridge
Author: Ken Casey
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Total Pages: 240
Release: 2016-01-12
Genre: Games & Activities
ISBN: 1514439948

This book is designed to give a comprehensive and systematic view of the rules of play for advanced bridge. The various subjects contain rules for when and how to use the endplay, when and how to use the squeeze play, how to handle a forcing defense, and how to handle a 4-1 trump split. The book also contains my favorite hands and the various coups. Under each subject, there are numerous examples of how to handle each rule of play.

Squeezes Made Simple

Squeezes Made Simple
Author: David Bird
Publisher: Master Point Press
Total Pages: 68
Release: 2001
Genre: Games & Activities
ISBN: 9781894154321

"Many players go through life thinking that squeeze play is complex, esoteric, and certainly beyond their capabilities. This book demonstrates that basic squeeze play is within anyone's grasp, and that even double squeezes are not unthinkable. Finally, the authors discuss how a defender can avoid being squeezed--a topic that has rarely received much ink."--Back cover

Bridge Squeezes for Everyone

Bridge Squeezes for Everyone
Author: David Bird
Publisher: Master Point Press
Total Pages: 226
Release: 2002
Genre: Games & Activities
ISBN: 9781894154420

Squeezes are an aspect of bridge declarer play that many intermediate players think they will never grasp. Yet while squeezes can be extremely complex, the basic principles of squeeze play are not. This is the first comprehensive book on squeeze play since Clyde E Love's classic 'Bridge Squeezes Complete', and much more approachable. Using the same straightforward, conversational style with recaps and quizzes that characterised the 'Bridge Technique' series, this book will make squeezes understandable to many readers who have been afraid to attempt to learn them.

A Bridge to Simple Squeezes

A Bridge to Simple Squeezes
Author: Julian Laderman
Publisher:
Total Pages: 151
Release: 2007
Genre: Games
ISBN: 9781897106266

Most bridge players find squeeze play the hardest technique to learn. It has unavoidable technical aspects that for many make it impenetrable. In this award-winning book, the reader is taken slowly and carefully through the basics, and by the end will be confident that they too can execute simple squeezes at the table. This second edition reflects many enhancements and improvements made to the original version, which was the 2006 American Bridge Teachers Association Book of the Year.

The Play of the Cards

The Play of the Cards
Author: Terence Reese
Publisher: Robert Hale
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1991
Genre: Contract bridge
ISBN: 9780709043416

From the authors of Acol in the 90's, this bridge book covers the whole range of play from opening leads to end plays, and intends to improve the reader's game.

Tournament Bridge for Intermediate Players

Tournament Bridge for Intermediate Players
Author: Ken Casey
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Total Pages: 678
Release: 2021-06-24
Genre: Games & Activities
ISBN: 1664177280

This book is designed to give a comprehensive and systematic view of the types of hands an intermediate player might expect to encounter in a tournament. The various categories of hands presented will teach you when to use the dummy reversal, when to spurn a finesse, when to duck a trick, when to do the avoidance play and how to handle a defender’s singleton. The book will also teach you how to discard, how to unblock, how to deceive and how to handle transportation problems. Ken has published more than 15 bridge books. These books have now been consolidated into a series of 5 core tournament books as follows: Tournament Bridge for Beginning Players (4th ed. 2020), Tournament Bridge for Intermediate Players (5th ed. 2021), Tournament Bridge for Advanced Players (4th ed. 2021), Tournament Bridge for Notrump Contracts (4th ed. 2020) and Tournament Bridge Tips on Defense (4th ed. 2020). These 5 core books have themselves been condensed into a two-volume set called The Complete Book of Bridge Hands, Volumes 1 and 2 (2nd ed. 2019). In addition, Ken has published two books on bidding, The Casey 2/1 Bridge Bidding System (4th ed. 2021) and The Casey Simplified Precision Club Bridge Bidding System (2nd ed. 2021). Ken served as a Russian interpreter during the Vietnam War and then spent over 30 years practicing as a tax attorney. Ken also has an MBA in accounting and a CPA.