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Book Name Author Price
Greatest Matches Close Encounters Book 1 : 1964-2001 Eric Kokish
& Mark Horton 150
Close Encounters Book 2 : 2003-2017 Eric Kokish & Mark
Horton 150
Bidding More Accurate Bidding Marshall Miles 80
Overcalling Opponents 1NT Ken Rexford 90
Card Play Trick One David Bird 140
Off-Road Declarer Play David Bird 140
Defensive Signaling at Bridge David Bird 140
Humor Last Call In The Menagerie Victor Mollo 140
The Principle of Restricted Talent Danny Kleinman and Nick
Straguzzi 130
The Canterbury Bridge Tales David Silver & Tim Bourke
120
Miscellaneous Master of Bridge Psychology Jeppe Juhl with Peter
Fredin 150
Human Bridge Errors Danny Kleinman and Nick Straguzzi 140
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Close Encounters Book 1 : 1964-2001 (http://tiny.cc/jp2i7y) by
Eric Kokish & Mark Horton
Price: $150 !Close Encounters Book 2 : 2003-2017
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by Eric Kokish & Mark Horton Price: $150
Close Encounters is a two-book series that describes some of the
most memorable bridge matches of the last fifty years. It features
titanic struggles for World and National titles, involving the
greatest players from North America and Europe. There are amazing
comebacks, down to the wire finishes, overtime victories, and an
insight into how the game has changed over the last half century.
Book 1 starts with Italy's asserting its supremacy over Great
Britain in 1964, and ends with Germany's dramatic Venice Cup win
over France in Paris, in 2001.
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Book 2 starts with Italy’s losing a world title in bizarre
fashion on the final board, and ends with the USA’s nail-biting
2-IMP victory over France in Lyon in 2017.
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More Accurate Bidding (http://tiny.cc/kx2i7y) by Marshall
Miles
Price: $80
This is not a book for beginners, and will not bore you with
rehashing things you already know. Some of the topics are somewhat
controversial, and as always Marshall Miles urges his own, often
original, point of view. You may not be persuaded by everything he
recommends, but perhaps you will adopt part of it, and it won't
hurt you to discover how some other people play, even if you refuse
to play that way yourself. Here are some of the topics discussed:
Game invitations after a raise of opener's major Fast arrival and
picture bids When the opponents double a transfer or Stayman Mini
splinters Mini Roman 2♦
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The Kaplan Interchange Rubens advances of overcalls Ways to show
two-suiters The Wolff signoff Inverted minors Playing in the
opponents' suit Balancing As he often does, Miles ends this book
with an 'It's Your Call' bidding quiz, with detailed discussion of
options and the rationale for his own choices.
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Overcalling Opponent’s 1NT (http://tiny.cc/by2i7y) by Ken
Rexford
Price: $90
Author Ken Rexford has developed an intriguing new approach to
overcalling 1NT openings that may revolutionize this area of
bridge. If you are unhappy with Cappelletti, DONT, Brozel, and the
like, this book introduces you to a new approach for tackling the
opponent's 1NT opening, with an entirely new way to handle one or
two-suited hands. Can your current approach tell partner whether
you have a strong or a weak overcall at the two-level? Can you tell
partner which suit of your major-and-a-minor is longer? Can you
identify the specific minor with your major, again at the
two-level? All of these are possible using Ken Rexford's methods.
Imagine describing more hands than the Woolsey defense handles, all
with easy but novel methods that fit (unlike Woolsey) into the
ACBL's General Convention Chart! You can also use these methods to
improve your response structure to your own openings and in other
auctions. For example, after a Four Diamond overcall of partner's
Two Clubs opening, you can bid any new suit as a natural
one-suiter, use double as cooperative, and yet still have the room
needed to describe any specific two-suiter, without bypassing the
game level. Impossible? Not with this new technique. Can you show
one or both minors and slam interest after a 2NT opening, and tell
partner which specific minor you have, at the three-level? Yes,
using Rexford's methods.
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Trick One (http://tiny.cc/fz2i7y) by David Bird
Price: $140 A huge percentage of failing contracts go down
because declarer did not play optimally on the first trick.
Similarly, countless contracts are allowed to slip through because
the defender in third seat made the wrong play. With 125
instructive deals, David Bird covers all aspects of the first card
played from dummy, the first move by the defender in third seat and
the card chosen by declarer from his hand. Parts I and II contain
chapters on declarer play — with topics such as Avoidance Play,
Winning in the Right Hand, Blocking the Defenders’ Suit, Setting up
a Squeeze, Deceptive Play and Setting up an Endplay — and defense —
with topics including Unblocking, Managing Defensive Entries,
Deception, Signaling and Disrupting Declarer’s Plan. Parts III and
IV contain 44 problems, with each solution triggered by a necessary
play at trick one. Perfect your cardplay at trick one and you will
be difficult to beat!
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Off-Road Declarer Play (http://tiny.cc/w02i7y) by David Bird
Price: $140
Every intermediate player is familiar with the routine
techniques of dummy play. What this book describes are less
well-known stratagems that may save the day in non-routine
situations. They include methods for creating entries, surviving
bad trump breaks, elopements, getting the defenders to help you
out, and many more. In this unique and quirky book, the author
introduces to the reader to new ways of thinking about declarer
play, ways that just might help him make that next contract!
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Defensive Signalling at Bridge
by David Bird Price: $140 The author begins this thorough
discussion of a neglected but vital topic by examining the real
purpose of defensive signalling, and the basic kinds of signals
that are available. He goes on to recommend a comprehensive set of
signalling agreements, and analyzes more complex situations in the
light of these agreements. Most of the chapters are followed by a
quiz, and the answer to each signalling problem includes a full
52-card diagram to demonstrate the effectiveness of the recommended
signal. The book finishes with a chapter that looks at the
signalling methods of eight world-class pairs, with examples of
their methods in action. A book any player who is looking to
improve will want to read.
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Last Call in the Menagerie (http://tiny.cc/y12i7y)
by Victor Mollo Price: $140 Just about every bridge player over
forty has read Victor Mollo’s Bridge in the Menagerie, a book that
is on any list of the all-time top ten on the game. Towards the end
of his life, Mollo continued to write stories about the same
well-loved characters (the Hideous Hog, the Rueful Rabbit, Oscar
the Owl, and the rest), but they appeared in various magazines
around the world, and if you weren’t a subscriber, you didn’t get
to read them. This is the final MPP anthology of these lost
Menagerie gems, collected for the first time in book form
(following The Hog Takes to Precision, Diamonds are the Hog’s Best
Friend and Swings and Arrows). Victor Mollo is everyone’s favorite
bridge humorist, and a genuinely new book from him will be greeted
as something to be treasured. Illustrations by bridge cartoonist
Bill Buttle add to the fun.
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The Principle of Restricted Talent (http://tiny.cc/a22i7y)
by Danny Kleinman and Nick Straguzzi Price: $130 An anthology of
humorous stories featuring Chthonic, the bridge-playing robot. The
stories draw unmercifully funny portraits of human bridge players,
as Chthonic's bridge brilliance and abrasive and ill-concealed
contempt for his human creators leave them all in his wake. A
particular target is the pompous Director of the Cybernetics
Research Institute, whose opinion of his own bridge expertise
differs greatly from that of his protégé. Some of these stories
have appeared in The Bridge World magazine, where the characters
are established as firm reader favourites.
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Canterbury Bridge Tales (http://tiny.cc/122i7y)
by David Silver & Tim Bourke Price: $120 A disparate group
of travellers meets by chance at a motel while on the way to the
Nationals in Canterbury, Florida, and naturally they begin swapping
stories. Sound familiar? Professor Silver returns in a new
collection of short stories, in which literary parody is interwoven
with Tim Bourke’s brilliant bridge hands. Murder, mystery, sex and
the supernatural – and that’s just in the first three tales.
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Master of Bridge Psychology (http://tiny.cc/r32i7y)
by Jeppe Juhl with Peter Fredin Price: $150 This may be the
funniest bridge biography you will ever read. Peter Fredin of
Sweden won the 2009 European Pairs championship, and is a multiple
medalist in events at the world level. His style and approach to
bridge owe more to psychology than to the mathematics of the game,
something that often lands him in unusual situations at the table.
Being one of the world’s best card players, he can generally find a
way to extricate himself. Danish journalist Jeppe Juhl, a close
personal friend of Fredin, has collected some of Fredin’s best and
worst moments into a book that offers superlative entertainment for
any bridge player.
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Human Bridge Errors (http://tiny.cc/b42i7y)
by Danny Kleinman and Nick Straguzzi Price: $140 Chthonic, the
irascible bridge-playing computer, is back! This time, he's
attempting to teach humans a little about the game of bridge — not
in order to turn them into competent players, as he knows that is
impossible. But he thinks he may be able to get the reader to the
point where his cell phone won't laugh at him behind his back every
time he plays a card (it does, you know). Each chapter of this
wickedly funny book highlights a different 'human bridge error',
and points out why and how it should be avoided.
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