Keys to Winning Bridge (eBook)

The Advancing Player's Handbook

Frank Stewart (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2018
220 Seiten
Baron Barclay (Verlag)
978-1-944201-19-7 (ISBN)

Infos

With this latest book he has captured (and in understandable words) not only what it takes to win but the way to get there. In his 40 years as an author, editor, analyst and syndicated columnist, Frank Stewart has had a chance to discern the skills that make a winning player. The intent of this book is to help aspiring players improve by focusing on the factors that really determine how well they do. Most are basic, and anyone who has an ounce of ability and is intent on progressing can do so. The level of instruction in this book varies. Some material is elementary, some is more advanced and involves the type of logical thinking that winning bridge requires. Although his aim is to build a sound foundation, he also wants to give any reader who can excel the opportunity to do so.

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Many elements contribute to success at bridge. Frank believes that two areas account for the difference between players who do well consistently and those who struggle. (1) A winning player has rock-solid fundamentals. The best part of an expert's game is that he never -- never -- boots a simple situation. Give him a basic bidding problem or a textbook exercise in dummy play and he will get it right. If you never make errors in basic technique, you will have an edge over 90% of your competitors. (2) A winning player keeps avoidable errors to a minimum. Bridge is a game of mistakes. Nobody has ever played a perfect session, nobody ever will. Everybody makes mistakes. Winners make the fewest. This quote is attributed to Bob Hamman: "e;All players are poor players, including some good players."e; Hamman wasn't being opprobrious; he was just acknowledging that we all have shortcomings. Many types of errors are common: mishandling suit combinations, forgetting to count, missing inferences. Maybe the majority of errors stem from lapses in concentration.

Autor

Frank Stewart is most well known for his syndicated column Daily Bridge Column which appears in more than 150 newspapers, including the Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, and Chicago Sun-Times and is read by an estimated 3 million people very day. Stewart has written a score of books on bridge - his latest, Keys to Winning Bridge is coming out to much excitement and buzz in the Bridge community. Stewart resides in Fayette, Alabama with his wife Charlotte and daughter Bessie.

Inhalt

Prologue . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 PART ONE: DUMMY PLAY At trick one . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .11 Technique . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .21 Timing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 36 More technique . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .47 Using the clues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61 PART TWO: DEFENSE Good and bad rules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71 Basic approaches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88 Opening leads . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109 Partnership defense . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .127 Using the clues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144 PART THREE: BIDDING Fundamentals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155 Style . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174 Discipline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197 Artificialities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207 PART FOUR: WINNING ATTITUDES Winning attitudes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .213 Maintaining Focus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .216

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.3.2018
• Zusatzinfo: 150 Illustrations including: - 150 Charts.
• Verlagsort: Louisville
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Freizeit / Hobby ► Spielen / Raten
• Themenwelt: Kinder- / Jugendbuch ► Spielen / Lernen ► Abenteuer / Spielgeschichten
• ISBN-10: 1-944201-19-X / 194420119X
• ISBN-13: 978-1-944201-19-7 / 9781944201197