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, 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, ...

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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, 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, but it takes the bidding up a notch by introducing more bidding techniques—and strategies for winning.

 

400 full-color photos Rules
• Playing a Hand
• Scoring Responding
• Next-Step Bidding Leads
• Overcalls
• Doubles When to Pull Trump Stealing the Bid Looking for Slam

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9781599216157
  • Publisher: Knack
  • Publication date: 1/6/2010
  • Pages: 256
  • Sales rank: 209,147
  • Series: Knack: Make It easy
  • Product dimensions: 8.40 (w) x 7.90 (h) x 0.70 (d)

Meet 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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  • Posted February 7, 2011

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    Great teaching and learning tool

    I love this book. Easy to understan. Great for a beginner and lifelong players.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted March 23, 2010

    A novel approach to the game of kings.

    The guide focuses on the objective of the hand, not just on the points and the science of bidding. It makes you think about where you are going in a hand, not on the mechanics of getting there.

    Despite the number of typos and some examples of hands shown in mid play (without warning), I found the book to be quite helpful.

    I would have preferred to have an index to eliminate the need to flip through the chapters for a particular reference.

    I am still looking for the fifteenth word used in bridge. it must be DEAL.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted March 20, 2010

    Eye catching book

    The book is easy to follow. The information is presented very clearly and in an attractive way.

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