Conventional Wisdom Plus A Comprehensive Guide To Modern Bridge Conventions

This easy-to-follow book covers in detail more than 50 of the most practical bridge conventions in use today. A glossary, which also serves as an index, lists more than 250 popular conventions, treatments, and systems. "Every bridge enthusiast should have it on his bookshelf."--Alfred Sheinwold, Los Angeles Times Syndicate.

Are you looking to grow your bidding bridge skills? If you are either a duplicate player or social player, then this book is for you. Everyone from novice to intermediate are invited to partake in the knowledge and humor found in this short volume. If you know anything about the game of bridge, you will know about conventions. They are the "shorthand" patterns of bridge speak which stretch our memory banks in the pursuit of better communication. What are conventions? What's the difference between natural and artificial bids? Which ones do we learn first? And why? What is the underlying question in every convention? This book skips the fluff and condenses the concepts behind the essential conventions - the ones you need to have in your game. If you want to jump start your game, then scroll up and click the "Buy Now" button.

This easy-to-follow book covers in detail more than 50 of the most practical bridge conventions in use today. A glossary, which also serves as an index, lists more than 250 popular conventions, treatments, and systems. "Every bridge enthusiast should have it on his bookshelf."--Alfred Sheinwold, Los Angeles Times Syndicate. "From the Trade Paperback edition.

Explains twenty-five bidding conventions, including the grand slam force, lead-directing doubles, negative doubles, new minor forcing, responsive doubles, reverse Drury, splinter bids, Stayman, takeout doubles, and weak two-bids.

This is an important, and in some ways revolutionary, book. The point count method of hand evaluation was first proposed in 1914 and popularized in 1934 by Milton Work. The Banzai Method advanced by David Jackson and Ron Klinger improves on Milton Work by reassessing the relative values of the honour cards but also adds a further dimension to accurate hand evaluation by including the tens and is of crucial importance when assessing balanced hands. According to Eric Kokish, an internationally respected American authority, who has contributed the Foreword, the many example deals are an eye-opener. When you finish this book, it is unlikely that you are going to look at your hand the same way as you have in the past.

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.