Knack Bridge for Everyone: A Step-by-Step Guide to Rules, Bidding, and Play of the Hand

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.

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Knack Bridge for Everyone: A Step-by-Step Guide to Rules, Bidding, and Play of the Hand

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.

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Knack Bridge for Everyone: A Step-by-Step Guide to Rules, Bidding, and Play of the Hand

Knack Bridge for Everyone: A Step-by-Step Guide to Rules, Bidding, and Play of the Hand

Knack Bridge for Everyone: A Step-by-Step Guide to Rules, Bidding, and Play of the Hand

Knack Bridge for Everyone: A Step-by-Step Guide to Rules, Bidding, and Play of the Hand

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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: 9780762761784
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Publication date: 01/05/2010
Series: Knack: Make It Easy
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 256
File size: 28 MB
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About the Author

D. W. Crisfield is a life master who has taught bridge for fifteen years. He won the Miles NLM Pairs at the North American Bridge Championships and has been featured in Bridge Bulletin. He is the author of Knack Coaching Youth Soccer and many other books.

Stephen Gorman is a photographer and writer whose work has appeared in several books in
the Knack Make It Easy series, and whose photo-essay books include Northeastern Wilds. Visit him at www.stephengorman.com.


Eli Burakian is a freelance photographer whose work has appeared in Knack Chess for Everyone. Visit him at www.burakianphotography.com.

Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Rules of Bridge

Chapter 2 Introductory Bidding

Chapter 3 Playing a Hand

Chapter 4 Scoring

Chapter 5 No Trump Openers and Responses

Chapter 6 Playing a NT hand

Chapter 7 Convenient Minor

Chapter 8 Responding

Chapter 9 Next Step Bidding

Chapter 10 Leads

Chapter 11 Overcalls

Chapter 12 Doubles

Chapter 13 Other Defense Strategies

Chapter 14 When to Pull Trump

Chapter 15 Preemptive Bids and Responses

Chapter 16 Stealing the bid

Chapter 17 2C and responses

Chapter 18 Looking for Slam

Chapter 19 Other Ways to Show a Big Hand

Chapter 20 Resource Directory

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