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Prose: non-fiction, Card games
A brand new edition of this bestselling complete reference guide to playing bridge successfully.
This book shows you how to improve your bridge at both a social and competitive level.
Clear examples explain the detail of modern Acol bidding. This will enable the reader to plan and reassess their campaign step-by-step and calculate with precision who holds which cards.
Guidance is also given on how and when to obstruct or bluff, how to pinpoint the best leads and steal the best contracts, and ways to think strategically under pressure.
Unique at-the-table charts - designed to foster partnership understanding used appropriately at home, club or class - summarise key bids.
Paul Mendelson
Paul Mendelson has written for the theatre and television and is the author of eleven non-fiction titles concerning mind-sports such as bridge and poker, as well as being a crime novelist whose first novel, The First Rule of Survival, was short-listed for the CWA Golden Dagger Crime Novel of the Year in 2014. His second novel, The Serpentine Road, was long-listed for the same prize in 2015. Both have been translated into several languages and a television adaptation is already in preparation.
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