The Complete Book on Takeout Doubles

The Complete Book on Takeout Doubles
Author: Mike Lawrence
Publisher: Master Point Press
Total Pages: 316
Release: 2012
Genre: Games & Activities
ISBN: 9781897106877

"A revised re-issue of a classic bridge textbook, generally regarded as the definitive guide to the oldest (and most useful) convention in the game - the takeout double."--Publisher description.

Larry Teaches Doubles

Larry Teaches Doubles
Author: Larry Cohen
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2013-03-13
Genre:
ISBN: 9781734878004

Larry Cohen teaches Doubles (and Redoubles) in contract bridge bidding. Many examples/quizzes.

Takeout Double

Takeout Double
Author: Jim Priebe
Publisher: Master Point Press
Total Pages: 226
Release: 2004
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9781894154895

Art Fraser, an ambitious police lieutenant assigned to the case, knows the bridge world well. He reckons that should give him the inside track on cracking his first homicide investigation. His own bridge friends have to be treated as suspects, and he begins to uncover a complex tangle of jealousy, ambition, sex, and deceit amongst people to whom he knows bridge is far more than just a game.

Takeout Double

Takeout Double
Author: James Smith
Publisher:
Total Pages: 46
Release: 2017-02-03
Genre:
ISBN: 9781520440019

Bridge is a language. This book shall teach you how to communicate to your partner and tell him loud and clear: "I have enough strength to open this auction, but I have no legal overcall to make. I would like you to choose the trump suit - preferably one of the unbid suits, a suit that was not bid by the opponents - I'll be glad if it is a Major suit." And your partner shall reply in the same language perfectly, and you two won't be a surprise to see each other the hand - the strength and the distribution.This book is intended to bridge players who know the basic rules of the game and want to advance their game level.Bridge couples players who learn the conventions described in this book, will increase their game enjoyment, their bidding will more accurate and their hand description will be clearer and more precise to the partnerDouble is for takeout only if your opponents had opened a suit (Spades, Hearts, Diamond or Clubs).Double is " Penalty Double" if your opponents had opened NT. It's not demanding your partner to bid his longest suit, and will often bid PASS.Don't confuse with other types of doubles: Negative Double, Penalty Double or Balancing Double.

Takeout Doubles

Takeout Doubles
Author: Mike Lawrence
Publisher:
Total Pages: 384
Release: 2018-03-15
Genre:
ISBN: 9783902625700

2/1 Game Force a Modern Approach - Third Edition

2/1 Game Force a Modern Approach - Third Edition
Author: Neil H. Timm Ph. D.
Publisher: Trafford Publishing
Total Pages: 488
Release: 2012-06
Genre: Education
ISBN: 146694384X

The 2/1 Game Force bidding system is an improvement over the Standard American System that has been in effect and played by bridge players for many years. The advantage of the 2/1 system is that it allows the partnership to know that game is possible with only a single bid. In this book, I have tried to present the fundamental aspects of the bidding structure for playing a "pure" Two-Over-One Game Force system of bidding. This is not a book on conventions, it is a book about bridge that incorporates conventions that allow the partnership to reach game or slam. In this regard, I have incorporated modern methods for hand evaluation developed by Marty Bergen. New bidding conventions like SARS (Shape Asking Relays after Stayman), Quest transfers, and an overview of "Bridge Rules and Laws" that I hope will improve your approach to the bidding structure you may use today. In this second edition, I have included additional Bridge Rules, expanded and added material in several sections and included many more conventions common to the 2/1 Game Force System. This edition includes the Montreal club and diamond relay bids, the Kennedy club, the Kaplan interchange bid, the Ekren 2♦ convention, picture bids, the forcing pass, masked mini splinters, the Ingberman and Ping Pong conventions, and the Marvin two spades convention, among others. Finally, a new chapter on Precision called Simplified Precision has been added. The 2/1 Game Force bidding system is an improvement over the standard American system that has been in effect and played by bridge players for many years. The advantage of the 2/1 system is that it allows the partnership to know that game is possible with only a single bid. In this book, I have tried to present the fundamental aspects of the bidding structure for playing a "pure" two-over-one game force system of bidding. This is not a book on conventions; it is a book about bridge that incorporates conventions that allow the partnership to reach game or slam. In this regard, I have incorporated modern methods for hand evaluation developed by Marty Bergen. New bidding conventions like SARS (Shape Asking Relays after Stayman), Quest transfers, and an overview of "Bridge Rules and Laws" that I hope will improve your approach to the bidding structure you may use today. In this second edition, I have included additional bridge rules, expanded and added material in several sections and included many more conventions common to the 2/1 Game Force System. This edition includes the Montreal club and diamond relay bids, the Kennedy club, the Kaplan interchange bid, the Ekren 2♦ convention, picture bids, the forcing pass, masked mini splinters, the Ingberman and Ping Pong conventions, and the Marvin two spades convention, among others. Finally, a new chapter on Precision called Simplified Precision has been added. In the third edition, I have made corrections brought to my attention by several readers. The chapter on slam bidding has been expanded to include asking for aces and kings simultaneously, the Baron 4NT convention, and more. New material on Roman Jump overcalls, the Mc Cabe Adjunct and the Reverse Mc Cabe Adjunct, Bergen's Jacoby 2NT bids, Meckwell major suit bids, and Meckwell responses to minor suit openings, more on interference over strong no trump, minor suit Stayman, Kokish Relays, and several other conventions have been added to this latest edition. Finally, new chapters on Transfer Precision, the Meckwell Precision (Meckwell Lite) Bids are also included in this issue. The Meckwell Lite material (chapter 18) was developed by a Luke Gillespie and Jim Streisand and is included in the book with their kind permission.

2/1 Game Force System

2/1 Game Force System
Author: Neil H. Timm PhD
Publisher: Trafford Publishing
Total Pages: 601
Release: 2020-10-27
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1698701675

The 2/1 Game Force System is an improvement over the Standard American System that has been in effect and played by bridge players for many years. The advantage of the 2/1 System is that it allows the partnership to know that game is possible with only an initial single bid. This book is about bridge that incorporates conventions that allow partnership’s to reach game or slam. In this regard, I have incorporated modern methods for hand evaluation developed by Marty Bergen called the ADJUST-3 Method and Zar points, new bidding conventions like SARS (Shape Asking Relays after Stayman) and Quest transfers, and an overview of “Bridge Rules and Laws” that I hope will improve your approach to the bidding structure you may use today. Also included is the bidding structure are Bergen, Reverse Bergen, and Combined Bergen major suit raises, inverted minor suit raises with crisscross and flip-flop, cue bidding, modified scroll bids, and many more methods not used in Standard American or Precision. The bidding conventions in the previous editions have been enhanced, corrected, expanded upon, and reorganized with new ones added. Given the release of the new ACBL convention charts, the chapter with the modifications to Fantunes, in my prior edition, is no longer needed. Fantunes may now be played using the Open Convention Chart. The Mid-chart no longer exits. Hence, I have deleted the chapter and replaced it with a new chapter on Bridge Tips, and Agreements. New conventions include a Modern Splinter Bidding Convention, the Zirconia Convention, Unusual 2-level bids, Jump Transfer bids, a new Two-Way Check-back Convention, 1430 Modified Jacoby 2NT*, additional Bridge Rules with more examples, Four-Way Transfers with the range ask bid and more are included in this edition. Also included is an update of the Minorwood and the Roman Keycard Blackwood Conventions, Two-Way New Minor Forcing with modified Wolff Signoff bids and new bidding sequences using Mini/Weak Notrump. The topic of Offense to Defense Ratio (ODR) is included in this revision as well as expanded bidding sequences when opening and responding to the bid of 2 playing the 2/1 Game Force System and many new Bridge Rules have been added to Chapter 10. A copy of this book is on the web site www.bridgewebs.com/ocala. A hard copy is available from the publisher or from Amazon.com – search on neil timm.

25 Bridge Conventions You Should Know

25 Bridge Conventions You Should Know
Author: Barbara Seagram
Publisher: Master Point Press
Total Pages: 196
Release: 1999
Genre: Contract bridge
ISBN: 9781894154079

Explains twenty-five bidding conventions, including the grand slam force, lead-directing doubles, negative doubles, new minor forcing, responsive doubles, reverse Drury, splinter bids, Stayman, takeout doubles, and weak two-bids.

Pocket Guide to Acol Bridge

Pocket Guide to Acol Bridge
Author: Mark Horton
Publisher: Master Point Press
Total Pages: 68
Release: 2009-07
Genre: Games & Activities
ISBN: 9781897106464

The original Pocket Guide to Bridge has sold more than 30,000 copies since it was published in 2002. Thousands of bridge players have found it an indispensable and handy guide to bidding, something that can be tucked into a handbag or jacket pocket and easily used as a reference at the bridge table during lessons and practice games. This new version of the book uses the same user-friendly approach and features to explain the most important bidding conventions for players who use the ACOL system -which means essentially everyone in the UK and the Commonwealth countries.