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Bridge Conventions, Defences and Countermeasures

Ron Klinger author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Orion Publishing Co

Published:8th Jun '17

Should be back in stock very soon

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The leading expert guide on bridge conventions brought up to date with an additional thirty-two pages.

Conventions are a vital element of bidding in bridge. Unless they are easily and clearly understood they can be destructively dangerous. This book contains the most common conventions you are likely to encounter at the duplicate table, together with defensive measures you can take, plus countermeasures against each part of the defensive methods. Importantly, however, bridge continues to evolve. The material in the additional chapter covers the most recent developments in bridge bidding and will give you ideas for inclusion in your regular partnerships.

Explains each convention, and goes on to show how it should be used, and covers the good and bad sides of its use. I felt the best part of the book (and the part which makes it stand out from any other book on conventions) was that, first, he shows how you might set out to make any conventional understanding difficult to use well, when employed against you. Then he discusses how best to counter these (and other) defensive measures used against you when you yourself have used the convention ... Highly recommended. - Bridge Magazine

ISBN: 9781474605632

Dimensions: 216mm x 156mm x 15mm

Weight: 197g

192 pages