Author: Ely Culbertson
Publisher: Legare Street Press
ISBN: 9781016177924
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author: Edgar Kaplan
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 9780486245591
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 468
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Bridge.
Author: Charles Henry Goren
Publisher: Ishi Press
ISBN: 9784871877299
Category : Games
Languages : en
Pages : 516
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Charles H. Goren's Contract Bridge Complete is probably the first book by more top level professional players than any other book today. It is an update and a combination of two previous books, "Better Bridge for Better Players" and "Standard Book of Bidding." This book describes the Goren Standard American bidding system. The point-count approach he popularized remains the foundation for most bidding systems.
Author: Charles Goren
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0671210521
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 164
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Here is the first book on Contract Bridge for beginners which introduces them at once to the generally accepted Point Count method of bidding used by the experts. Written by the leading authority, the foremost teacher, and the most successful bridge player in the world, it will prove a boon to the novice and the average bridge player alike.
Author: Mike Lawrence
Publisher: Baron Barclay Bridge Supplies
ISBN: 9780939460274
Category : Bridge whist
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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How to refigure your assets as the bidding proceeds
Author: Mike Lawrence
Publisher: Baron Barclay Bridge Supplies
ISBN: 9780939460700
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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This revised and expanded edition examines bridge auctions where the opponents bid something and you have the opportunity to either let them have it or to balance. The cost of not balancing can be huge, but you must weigh the cost of passing against the cost of bidding and getting a bad result. Lawrence's discussion of hand evaluation and planning a balancing auction goes beyond generic rules. Hundreds of examples help you develop judgment
Author: Hans Secelle
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781771402163
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 312
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In From Short Whist to Contract Bridge, the author takes the reader on a fascinating journey through space and time and introduces him to such games as Karnöffel, Whist, Hombre, Quadrille, Boston, Cayenne, Vist-Preferans, Russian Whist, Yeralash and Stormwhist. These old and mostly forgotten games will eventually lead to the assembly of a number of 'proto-bridge' variants, of which only Collinson's Biritch or Russian Whist will survive the labor pains. In its turn, this 'mother of all bridge variants' will be superseded by its more sophisticated successors: bridge-opposition, auction bridge, royal auction bridge, plafond and, finally, contract bridge, the world's most popular card game...
Author: Ely Culbertson
Publisher: Ishi Press
ISBN: 9784871876001
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 392
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Contract Bridge Blue Book is, without doubt, the most famous book on the Game of Contract Bridge ever written. It is a landmark work, mentioned in every book on the history of bridge. As a result of the success of this work, the Culbertson Bidding System was the most popular system the world. Ely Culbertson had a nationwide syndicated column on bridge that was carried in hundreds of newspapers daily. This authoritative book is the master work on the Culbertson (Approach-Forcing) System of Contract Bridge. Here is a thoroughly comprehensive and easily understandable presentation of Ely Culbertson's scientific principles of Contract bridge now standard throughout the world. In these pages too are the reasons underlying the Culbertson methods which make them unbeatable. Reading this famous book you can follow step-by-step the inexorable logic of Ely Culbertson, world's greatest card analyst, as he brings for you the soundness of this simple way of winning at Contract Bridge. Scores of books and hundreds of articles have been written about his ideas - but here, in Ely Culbertson's own work, you can learn and profit at first hand.
Author: Charles H. Goren
Publisher:
ISBN:
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Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Author: Michael Penick
Publisher: Baron Barclay Bridge Supplies
ISBN: 9780910791069
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 184
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From teaching the rank of the suits to a sensible glossary of terms, here is a bridge book for beginners that is complete yet streamlined, solid but thoroughly understandable.Suitable for self teaching or for classroom use.
