Bridge Club Lending Library Intermediate Books
- How the Experts Do It: Improving your Bridge, by Terence Reese
and David Bird. A collection of short topics followed by quizzes,
increasing in difficulty. Mostly declarer play, from the finesse to the
squeeze, with some defensive sections.
- How to Defend a Bridge Hand, by William S. Root. A
comprehensive guide to defense, with chapter end quizzes plus a final
cumulative quiz. Complete with a section on conventional leads and signals.
- Kantar for the Defense, by Edwin B. Kantar. One hundred
defensive problems with solutions and explanations.
- To Bid or Not to Bid: The Law of Total Tricks, by Larry
Cohen. Exposition and application of the highly influential law of total
tricks in competitive auctions. The law essentially states that if the deal
were played once by each side in that side's longest fit, the total number
of tricks taken (by the declaring sides) would be equal to the total number
of trumps held.
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