Author: Eddie Kantar
Publisher: Master Point Press
ISBN: 9781894154888
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
This is the fifth edition of what is acknowledged to be the definitive book on a convention that every serious play uses. Revised and updated, this new version contains all the leading-edge ideas, and is full of examples, quizzes and practice hands. A must for the tournament player.
Roman Keycard Blackwood
Author: Eddie Kantar
Publisher: Master Point Press
ISBN: 9781894154888
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
This is the fifth edition of what is acknowledged to be the definitive book on a convention that every serious play uses. Revised and updated, this new version contains all the leading-edge ideas, and is full of examples, quizzes and practice hands. A must for the tournament player.
Publisher: Master Point Press
ISBN: 9781894154888
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
This is the fifth edition of what is acknowledged to be the definitive book on a convention that every serious play uses. Revised and updated, this new version contains all the leading-edge ideas, and is full of examples, quizzes and practice hands. A must for the tournament player.
Roman Keycard Blackwood
Author: Barbara Seagram
Publisher: Master Point Press
ISBN: 9781894154628
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description
Based on Barbara Seagram's bestselling book, 25 Bridge Conventions You Should Know, each book in this series offers the opportunity to learn more about a common convention and to practice it on your own or with a favorite partner.
Publisher: Master Point Press
ISBN: 9781894154628
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description
Based on Barbara Seagram's bestselling book, 25 Bridge Conventions You Should Know, each book in this series offers the opportunity to learn more about a common convention and to practice it on your own or with a favorite partner.
Real Money Advice for Your Kids
Author: Wilson Luna
Publisher: Wilson Luna
ISBN: 0980628431
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
One of the biggest concerns that parents have - and one of the most confronting challenges we face - is how to teach our children the skills they will need to become successful and release the untapped potential that they possess. Compounding this concern is the knowledge that many of the skills that comprise this vital part of our children's education are not being addressed in the traditional classroom environment. Money management is an integral part of daily life, but the most important reason that your kids need to master this skill is not so they can be 'good' with money. It's because the foundation of money management is supported by the principles that will allow your children to excel in all areas of their life - discipline, patience, responsibility, determination, strength of character, good work ethics and high standards. Inside Real Money Advice for Your Kids by Wilson Luna, you'll learn the secrets of the Kids' Money Management Plan - a three stage program that will show you how to help your kids to create the habits, attitudes, beliefs and behaviours that will give them the head start that you want them to have.
Publisher: Wilson Luna
ISBN: 0980628431
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
One of the biggest concerns that parents have - and one of the most confronting challenges we face - is how to teach our children the skills they will need to become successful and release the untapped potential that they possess. Compounding this concern is the knowledge that many of the skills that comprise this vital part of our children's education are not being addressed in the traditional classroom environment. Money management is an integral part of daily life, but the most important reason that your kids need to master this skill is not so they can be 'good' with money. It's because the foundation of money management is supported by the principles that will allow your children to excel in all areas of their life - discipline, patience, responsibility, determination, strength of character, good work ethics and high standards. Inside Real Money Advice for Your Kids by Wilson Luna, you'll learn the secrets of the Kids' Money Management Plan - a three stage program that will show you how to help your kids to create the habits, attitudes, beliefs and behaviours that will give them the head start that you want them to have.
UbiComp 2004: Ubiquitous Computing
Author: Nigel Davies
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3540301194
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 468
Book Description
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing, UbiComp 2004, held in Nottingham, UK in September 2004. The 26 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 145 submissions. The papers address all current issues in ubiquitous computing ranging from algorithmic and systems design and analysis issues to applications in various contexts.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3540301194
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 468
Book Description
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing, UbiComp 2004, held in Nottingham, UK in September 2004. The 26 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 145 submissions. The papers address all current issues in ubiquitous computing ranging from algorithmic and systems design and analysis issues to applications in various contexts.
5 Minute Murder
Author: Christopher J. Yates
Publisher: Greenfinch
ISBN: 1529440904
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
A SLEUTHING EXPERIENCE THAT'S PERFECT FOR ALL PUZZLE AND WHODUNNIT LOVERS... The murderers have committed the crimes, now it's up to you to solve them. Using your powers of deduction, can you play detective and help put the killers behind bars? 5 Minute Murder features 100 logic and code-based murder-mystery puzzles, skillfully compiled by acclaimed psychological thriller writer Christopher J. Yates and puzzle expert Bruce Pitchers. From the dreaming spires of Oxford to the gritty streets of New York, this puzzle-meets-fiction book is split into 10 short stories, each with their own scintillating plotline to accompany the murder-based puzzles. If you're an armchair detective with a 5-minute coffee break to spare, can you crack the case? Praise for the work of Christopher J. Yates: "A new Stephen King, albeit with a British accent." - New York Post
Publisher: Greenfinch
ISBN: 1529440904
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
A SLEUTHING EXPERIENCE THAT'S PERFECT FOR ALL PUZZLE AND WHODUNNIT LOVERS... The murderers have committed the crimes, now it's up to you to solve them. Using your powers of deduction, can you play detective and help put the killers behind bars? 5 Minute Murder features 100 logic and code-based murder-mystery puzzles, skillfully compiled by acclaimed psychological thriller writer Christopher J. Yates and puzzle expert Bruce Pitchers. From the dreaming spires of Oxford to the gritty streets of New York, this puzzle-meets-fiction book is split into 10 short stories, each with their own scintillating plotline to accompany the murder-based puzzles. If you're an armchair detective with a 5-minute coffee break to spare, can you crack the case? Praise for the work of Christopher J. Yates: "A new Stephen King, albeit with a British accent." - New York Post
Bidding More Precisely
Author: Ken Casey
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1543484875
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 151
Book Description
This book is designed to highlight the advantages and disadvantages of the three major bidding systems: Standard American, 2/1, and Precision Club, as well as the Bergen Raise system. Solutions are offered for each disadvantage. Proposals for additional conventions, such as the weak NT and Jacoby transfers, are contained in a simplified model chart of each system. There are also innovative proposals for showing a five-card major, overcalls, and slam bidding. You will also find chapters on various conventions, irregularities in bidding, probabilities, filling out the convention card, playing in a team event, and scoring.
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1543484875
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 151
Book Description
This book is designed to highlight the advantages and disadvantages of the three major bidding systems: Standard American, 2/1, and Precision Club, as well as the Bergen Raise system. Solutions are offered for each disadvantage. Proposals for additional conventions, such as the weak NT and Jacoby transfers, are contained in a simplified model chart of each system. There are also innovative proposals for showing a five-card major, overcalls, and slam bidding. You will also find chapters on various conventions, irregularities in bidding, probabilities, filling out the convention card, playing in a team event, and scoring.
The Casey 2/1 Bridge Bidding System
Author: Ken Casey
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1664148213
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 199
Book Description
This book incorporates the 2/1 Game Force bidding system whenever the opener bids a major suit. Five new conventions have been added to the 2/1 system. This book is also designed to improve your bidding of minor suit openings in 4 steps. The 1st step involves the use of the Casey-Jacoby Transfer and the Casey overcall (a 1NT bid shows 4 hearts). The 2nd step involves adoption of the strong 2 bid, a bid of 20-21p. This allows the opener to use the Casey Reverse to show a hand of 16-17p by bidding at the 2-level and to show a hand of 18-19p by bidding at the 3-level. The Casey Minor Suit Rebid convention allows O to show a 4+ card suit at the 2 or 3-level. The 3rd step involves optimizing your slam bidding with the Casey Trump Queen convention and the Casey-Minorwood Kickback convention. The 4th step involves the use of the Weak-1NT (a 1NT bid shows 4 hearts) and Weak-2NT bids, both designed to hamper the opponents.
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1664148213
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 199
Book Description
This book incorporates the 2/1 Game Force bidding system whenever the opener bids a major suit. Five new conventions have been added to the 2/1 system. This book is also designed to improve your bidding of minor suit openings in 4 steps. The 1st step involves the use of the Casey-Jacoby Transfer and the Casey overcall (a 1NT bid shows 4 hearts). The 2nd step involves adoption of the strong 2 bid, a bid of 20-21p. This allows the opener to use the Casey Reverse to show a hand of 16-17p by bidding at the 2-level and to show a hand of 18-19p by bidding at the 3-level. The Casey Minor Suit Rebid convention allows O to show a 4+ card suit at the 2 or 3-level. The 3rd step involves optimizing your slam bidding with the Casey Trump Queen convention and the Casey-Minorwood Kickback convention. The 4th step involves the use of the Weak-1NT (a 1NT bid shows 4 hearts) and Weak-2NT bids, both designed to hamper the opponents.
2/1 Game Force System
Author: Neil H. Timm PhD
Publisher: Trafford Publishing
ISBN: 1698701675
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 616
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Trafford Publishing
ISBN: 1698701675
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 616
Book Description
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.
Precision Simplified
Author: Neil H. Timm
Publisher: Trafford Publishing
ISBN: 1426924305
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 121
Book Description
My goal in writing this book is to provide a careful organization of topics so that one may easily convert from any standard two club opening system and in particular the 2/1 Game Force bids to Precision. In the process, one may keep most of their natural bidding sequences and the conventions they currently use with minor modifications. I have tried to eliminate the fear of the memory features used by many variations of Precision by presenting a series of bids that are geared toward simplicity and allow the reader to integrate the Precision system into their more familiar natural bidding system using the 2/1 Game Force bidding structure which includes Combined Bergen Raises, inverted minor suit raises with criss-cross, cue bidding, modified scroll bids, and many more familiar methods.
Publisher: Trafford Publishing
ISBN: 1426924305
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 121
Book Description
My goal in writing this book is to provide a careful organization of topics so that one may easily convert from any standard two club opening system and in particular the 2/1 Game Force bids to Precision. In the process, one may keep most of their natural bidding sequences and the conventions they currently use with minor modifications. I have tried to eliminate the fear of the memory features used by many variations of Precision by presenting a series of bids that are geared toward simplicity and allow the reader to integrate the Precision system into their more familiar natural bidding system using the 2/1 Game Force bidding structure which includes Combined Bergen Raises, inverted minor suit raises with criss-cross, cue bidding, modified scroll bids, and many more familiar methods.
Simplified Precision Club Bridge Bidding System
Author: Ken Casey
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1664188509
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 178
Book Description
This book incorporates the 2/1 Game Force bidding system for opening majors and the Casey Simplified Precision Club system for opening minors. This book simplifies the traditional Precision Club system by eliminating many of its unnecessary complications. You will only need to add one new convention, the opening 1 bid, to your Standard American system. This system enables the responder to know the opener’s point count within a 2p range after the opener’s rebid. In addition, the Casey Overcall will improve your part scores by hampering the opponents from finding their spade fit. The book will also help you reach a new level by improving your slam bidding. The advantage of using the Casey Bidding System is that you will open the hand 12.6% more often than with Standard American. Ken has published more than 15 bridge books. There are 5 core 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). In addition, Ken has published two books on bidding, The Casey Simplified Precision Club Bridge Bidding System (2nd ed. 2021) and the Casey 2/1 Bridge Bidding System (5th ed. 2022). 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.
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1664188509
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 178
Book Description
This book incorporates the 2/1 Game Force bidding system for opening majors and the Casey Simplified Precision Club system for opening minors. This book simplifies the traditional Precision Club system by eliminating many of its unnecessary complications. You will only need to add one new convention, the opening 1 bid, to your Standard American system. This system enables the responder to know the opener’s point count within a 2p range after the opener’s rebid. In addition, the Casey Overcall will improve your part scores by hampering the opponents from finding their spade fit. The book will also help you reach a new level by improving your slam bidding. The advantage of using the Casey Bidding System is that you will open the hand 12.6% more often than with Standard American. Ken has published more than 15 bridge books. There are 5 core 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). In addition, Ken has published two books on bidding, The Casey Simplified Precision Club Bridge Bidding System (2nd ed. 2021) and the Casey 2/1 Bridge Bidding System (5th ed. 2022). 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.