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56 <strong>Bridge</strong> Lessons from Andrew Robson £4.99 per booklet In a compelling format, each page consists of a lesson, plus an illustrative deal. Not only will you further your understanding of the topic but its bite-size lesson format makes the learning that little bit more enjoyable. 13 booklets available: Bidding as Opener, Responding & Fourth Suit Forcing, Overcall, Defence, Slam, Weak Two, Opening Lead, Hand Evaluation & Losing Trick Count, Stayman & Transfer, Double, Finesse, Signal & Discard, Endplay & Squeeze and Rules, Acronyms and Ditties. Get all 14 booklets for £55 BRIDGE LESSONS ARE ALSO ON CD See page 47 for further details The Official ACBL Encyclopedia of <strong>Bridge</strong> 7th Edition Edited by Brent Manley £49.95 A perfect gift for the die-hard <strong>Bridge</strong> player 600+ pages, hardback This long-awaited edition is the most complete volume of bridge information and instruction ever compiled. With over 600 easy-to read and easy-to-search pages, it belongs in every bridge player’s library. It has thousands of entries covering bridge terms, conventions, systems, rules, and top personalities. • Completely redesigned format • 25% larger type • Comprehensive user-friendly index • Hundreds of photos • 85 pages on conventions • 55 pages on suit combinations • Contains a CD-ROM version of the complete Encyclopedia plus hundreds of additional biographies. “Here is the indispensable work on the greatest of all card games. Editor Manley and his stable of contributors have earned a gold star.” – Frank Stewart “My advice to you is to be the first on your block to get a copy. And if you have a gift in mind for anyone who plays this beautiful game, your problems are over. In spades.” – Eddie Kantar Take All Your Chances At <strong>Bridge</strong> Eddie Kantar £12.95 160 pages, paperback Aimed at Intermediate players Winner of 2010 ABTA Book of the Year: Intermediate Selecting the best line of play as declarer is not easy. Most novices know something about basic odds and percentages, and can often find a line that offers a reasonable chance of success. However, the expert skilfully combines options. So rather than putting all his eggs in one basket, he will ‘stay alive’, squeezing out every extra chance. In this book of play problems, Kantar shows the reader how to do this – there is always a line of play that will allow you take all your chances, and bring home your contract. Take All Your Chances At <strong>Bridge</strong> 2 - Eddie Kantar £11.95 In this sequel, Kantar presents a new collection of play problems. Again, the trick is to combine as many possible lines as possible to optimise your chances of making the contract. Full of Kantar’s inimitable humor and extra tips, as well as lots of good bridge, this one is another sure winner. The Rodwell Files Eric Rodwell & Mark Horton £17.95 Aimed at Advanced players 400 pages, paperback Eric Rodwell's contributions to bidding theory are well-known, but in this ground-breaking book he reveals for the first time his unique approach to the play of the cards. First, he describes and explains the process for deciding on a line of play — using concepts such as +L positions, tightropes, trick packages and Control Units as well as exploring more standard themes such as counting winners, losers, and distribution. Included here too is a checklist of 'defogging questions' to get you back on track when your analysis gets bogged down. Then he moves on to a host of innovative ideas in cardplay, strategies and tactics that can be used by declarer or defenders, each one illustrated with reallife examples from top-level play. Many of these ideas will be new to anyone below the bridge stratosphere. Finally, under the heading 'DOs and DON'Ts', Rodwell talks about the mental side of the game: areas where players often go wrong in their approach to the problem at hand, areas that mark the key differences between an average player and a successful one. The original 'Rodwell File', the collection of notes on which this book is based, has been in existence for more than twenty years, but it is only now that the author is prepared to allow his 'secrets' to become public knowledge. Featured <strong>Bridge</strong> Books 2010 World <strong>Bridge</strong> Championships: Philadelphia Brian Senior £22 - 336 pages, paperback Aimed at Intermediate and Advanced players Here you have the definitive record of the 2010 World <strong>Bridge</strong> Championships that were staged in Philadelphia. Editor Brian Senior and his team of writers, including John Carruthers, Barry Rigal and Geo Tislevoll have once again delivered a terrific account of the various events: The Bermuda Bowl, the Venice Cup, the Seniors Bowl and the World Transnational Open teams Championship. With 336 pages you get an amazing amount of terrific bridge for a relatively modest outlay. Includes detailed analysis of hands played in each competition along with the scores from each match and the final rankings table – along with round-by-round reports and an abundance of photographs. Also available in the same series: 1999: Bermuda £19.99 2000: Maastricht £19.99 2001: Paris £19.99 2002: Montreal £19.99 2003: Monte Carlo £19.99 The Abbot and the Sensational Squeeze David Bird £10.99 128 pages, paperback <strong>Bridge</strong> fiction Like all of the other works in this immensely humorous series, this book follows the adventures of the fictional bridge playing monks of the order of St. Titus. Each chapter sees the monks in some bridge situation where they play a number of hands. The bidding is normally English Acol but this is secondary to the play of the hands which is where the interesting bridge problems can be found. Also available in the Abbot series: Celestial Cardplay £10.99, Cardinal Sins £12.99, Doubled and Venerable £12.99, Miracles of Card Play £10.99, Heavenly Contracts £10.99, Unholy Tricks £10.99, Divine Intervention £10.99 and The Abbot’s Great Sacrifice £9.99 The Hog Takes to Precision Victor Mollo £11.95 <strong>Bridge</strong> Fiction 160 pages, paperback Just about every bridge player has read Mollo’s <strong>Bridge</strong> in the Menagerie, a book that is in everyone’s top ten. 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, et al.), but some appeared only in the pages of obscure magazines, while others were never published. Now, for the first time, these lost Menagerie gems are available in book form. Victor Mollo is everyone’s favorite bridge humorist, and a genuinely new book from him will be greeted as something to be treasured. What Should Have Happened Andrew Robson £13 252 pages, hardback Aimed at Social/Intermediate players Andrew Robson is Britain’s best known <strong>Bridge</strong> player. He has been the columnist of The Times since 2000, where his daily nuggets have inspired tens of thousands. It is his Friday columns, aimed somewhat at the less experienced player, that this book is based. In this long awaited sequel to his Common Mistakes - and How to Avoid Them, Andrew takes you through a well-structured 251-deal journey through all basic areas of the game, learning form typical mistakes. What happened - and what should have happened. Deadly Endplay Ken Allan £11.95 200 pages, paperback <strong>Bridge</strong> Fiction Aimed at all standards of player If Miss Marple’s village had boasted a bridge club, it would have been like the one in Pemberton, the setting for this murder mystery novel. The story unfolds at the slow pace of life in a small rural town, and whether there even was a murder is part of the mystery. The game of bridge is closely interwoven with the lives of the people in Pemberton - we meet the characters partly through bridge columns from the local paper, and get to see how their personae at the table differs from their everyday lives. The title of the book relates to a deal that comes up in a club game, and also refers to how the murder, if it was a murder, was committed. Tel: 020 7288 1305 or 020 7486 7015 Email: info@bridgeshop.com 2004: Istanbul £22 2005: Estoril £22 2006: Verona £22 2007: Shangai £22 2008: Beijing £22 2009: São Paulo £22
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