How to Defend a Bridge Hand

How to Defend a Bridge Hand
Author: William S. Root
Publisher: Crown
Total Pages: 410
Release: 1994
Genre: Games & Activities
ISBN: 9780517591604

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A guide to defense covers opening leads, signals, trump promotion, discarding, and deception, and shares sample hands to test one's understanding of strategy

How to Defend a Bridge Hand

How to Defend a Bridge Hand
Author: William S. Root
Publisher: Three Rivers Press
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1995-04-11
Genre: Bridge
ISBN: 9780517883938

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This book is a comprehensive work covering every angle in defending bridge hands. As a bonus, there is a section on many of the lead and signal conventions practiced in expert circles.

How to Play a Bridge Hand

How to Play a Bridge Hand
Author: William S. Root
Publisher: Crown
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2010-11-03
Genre: Games & Activities
ISBN: 0307774457

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Neither for beginners nor for experts but for the 90 percent of players in between, How to Play a Bridge Hand includes more than 300 of bridge master William Root's favorite hands. Hailed by the American Bridge Teachers' Association as the "Book of the Year." Line drawings.

Tips on Bridge Defense

Tips on Bridge Defense
Author: Ken Casey
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Total Pages: 366
Release: 2018-04-18
Genre: Games & Activities
ISBN: 1984510312

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This book is designed to give a comprehensive view of the rules of play for defense. The book contains rules for how to defend against a long suit, when and how to ruff , how to handle a forcing defense, how to defend against a squeeze play or an endplay, when and how to duck, when to play 2nd hand high or 3rd hand low, how to play from E, when to underlead your Ace, how to discard and deceive, how to defend against a notrump contract, how to signal and how to lead. Under each subject, there are numerous examples illustrating each rule of defense.

Don't Be a Dummy

Don't Be a Dummy
Author: Elliot Sternlicht
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Total Pages: 280
Release: 2003-03-31
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 1465326235

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This book covers basic bridge principles relating to all three aspects of bridge - bidding, defending and declaring a hand. I have imparted ideas that I have learned in over twenty years of playing high-level tournament and rubber bridge.

Eddie Kantar Teaches Modern Bridge Defense

Eddie Kantar Teaches Modern Bridge Defense
Author: Eddie Kantar
Publisher: Master Point Press
Total Pages: 244
Release: 1999
Genre: Games & Activities
ISBN: 9781894154024

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Covers leads, signaling, second- and third-hand play, and discarding, and includes practice hands and quizzes.

The Complete Book of Bridge Hands

The Complete Book of Bridge Hands
Author: Ken Casey
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Total Pages: 1178
Release: 2018-07-06
Genre: Games & Activities
ISBN: 1984535668

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This book is meant to be a comprehensive book on all the various types of bridge hands. Each type of hand is categorized in a separate chapter. Volume One contains a partial compilation of my three books on tournament bridge. These three books are Tournament Bridge for Beginning Players, Tournament Bridge for Intermediate Players and Tournament Bridge for Advanced Players. All three of these books were revised in 2018. Volume Two contains a partial compilation of my two books on playing Notrump hands and on playing defense. These two books are entitled Playing the Notrump Hand in Bridge and Tips on Bridge Defense. Both of these books were also revised in 2018.

Defending at Bridge

Defending at Bridge
Author: Bill Treble
Publisher: Government Printing Office
Total Pages: 160
Release: 2016-09-15
Genre: Games & Activities
ISBN: 9781771400367

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No bells or whistles, just the plain, simple stuff to get you started on the road to becoming a good defender. In eight easy lessons, this book coves the things you really need to know: opening leads and signaling against notrump and suit contracts, second and third-hand Play, the Rule of Eleven, discards, and basic strategy. Quizzes and example hands make the whole process of learning both fun and productive. Praise for Bill Treble's 'Getting into the Bidding', An excellent intermediate-level book covering contested auctions. The focus is on providing a foundation for choosing and using methods - which are available, which are popular, and what are the trade-offs among them. The Bridge World Book jacket.

Commonsense Bidding

Commonsense Bidding
Author: William S. Root
Publisher: Three Rivers Press
Total Pages: 227
Release: 1995-04
Genre: Games & Activities
ISBN: 0517884305

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The most complete guide to the modern methods of standard bidding for bridge, from one of America's leading players, teachers, and authorities. With a logical, easy-to-follow style, William Root covers all the bidding essentials.

Tournament Bridge Tips on Defense

Tournament Bridge Tips on Defense
Author: Ken Casey
Publisher: Xlibris Us
Total Pages: 400
Release: 2019-06-19
Genre:
ISBN: 9781796040388

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This book is designed to give a comprehensive view of the rules of play for defense. The book contains rules for how to defend against a long suit, when and how to ruff, how to handle a forcing defense, how to defend against a squeeze play or an endplay, when and how to duck, when to play second hand high or third hand low, how to play from E, when to underlead your ace, how to discard and deceive, how to defend against a notrump contract, how to signal, and how to lead. Under each subject, there are numerous examples illustrating each rule of defense.