Santa's coming
Douglas Newlands
tree lights causing a nasty fire and incinerating your _entire_ bridge
library,
Having thought about how many bridge books you can ask Santa to bring,
you decide that 5 is the upper end of not being greedy.
So what 5 are on your list?
Douglas,
Tasmania
henry...@yahoo.com
wrote:
Nice question! I'd ask for
Robson - Segal, Partnership Bidding at Bridge
Forquet, Bridge with the Blue Team
Ottlik - Kelsey, Adventures in Card Play
Kelsey, Killing Defense at Bridge
Kleinman - Straguzzi, Human Bridge Errors
Henrysun909
none
kelsey One book at random
mollo Card play tecnique
Giannuzzi Eliminazioni e colpi nel bridge
Root How to play a bridge hand
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Jürgen R.
Reese - All You Need to Know about Bidding
Reese - All You Need to Know about Play
McCullough - The Great Bridge
Jürgen R.
Reese - All You Need to Know about Bidding
Ian Payn
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++++Good question. I have read far fewer bridge books than most on this
group (I imagine) and none for a goodly while. I'd go largely for style
rather than content, because being hugely arrogant I think I probably know
more or less all I need to know, and what I don't know I find out from my
betters, not the printed page.
Adventures in Card Play (Kelsey/Otlik. I wonder if I'd understand any of it
this time around?)
Why You Lose at Bridge (Simon)
Right Through the Pack (Darvas)
The Expert Game (Reese - had an alternative title in the US, I think).
The Pairs Game (David Greenwood. Objectively Matchpoints by Kit Woolsey is
probably a better book, but it's my list and I'll fly the flag if I want
to).
Pretty much explains why I never understand what's going on at the table in
2008, doesn't it?
Love on Squeezes is invaluable in real life, but hardly what you'd call a
thumping good read. If I could save only on book on behalf of a neophyte
it'd be Card Play Technique (Mollo/Gardener). If I were restricted to
collections of old newspaper colums it'd be Jeremy Flint's stuff for The
(London) Times or, more for a laugh, Rixi's Bid Boldy, Play Safe. Come to
think of it, Tiger Bridge by Flint and North has a lot going for it. Then
there's...
Dave Flower
> "Douglas Newlands" <douglas.newla...@gmail.com> wrote in message
In alphabetical order of authors:
Coffin - Sure Tricks
Darvas & Hart - Right Through the Pack
Kelsey - Killing Defence at Bridge
Mollo - Bridge in the Menagerie
Simon - Why You Lose at Bridge
Dave Flower
Ian Payn
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In alphabetical order of authors:
Coffin - Sure Tricks
Darvas & Hart - Right Through the Pack
Kelsey - Killing Defence at Bridge
Mollo - Bridge in the Menagerie
Simon - Why You Lose at Bridge
Dave Flower
++++I considered a Menagerie book, but actually think the second one (Bridge
in the Fourth Dimension, if memory serves) is a bit better than the first,
things having settled down a bit.
dmatt
wrote:
Reese on Play - JT Reese (Best bridge book of all time)
The Expert Game - JT Reese
Killing Defence at Bridge - HW Kelsey
Why You Lose at Bridge - SJ Simon
The Squeeze at Bridge - HG Freehill (Not too many will have included
this one but it's the best book on squeeze play if you actually want
to learn how to recognise positions)
Regards
David
Carl
wrote:
> The festive season has gotten off to a nasty start with the Christmas
> tree lights causing a nasty fire and incinerating your _entire_ bridge
> library,
>
I've got a fairly large problem then. There's perhaps 4000 books here,
and some of these are YOUR Christmas presents!
Carl Ritner
www.carlritner.com <-- Bridge books, cheap. Slightly crisp...
dak...@aol.com
Freehill: The squeeze at Bridge
Brown: Winning Defense
Cioffi Bridge Endings
Love: Squeeze Play in Bridge
Culbertson Red Book on Play
OldPalooka
wrote:
Grant Baze told me a while back that he spent some time with
Adventures nearly every day and had done so for years. Maybe 5 is
greedy.
-- Bill Shutts
vsp...@hotmail.com
> Ottlik - Kelsey, Adventures in Card Play
Adventures in Card Play is a fun book to read.
But is it useful? Have any of you ever executed
a play from this book in competition?
Eric Leong
Borel and Cheron, Mathematic Theory of Bridge
Ottlik - Kelsey, Adventures in Card Play
Mollo, The Finer Arts of Bridge or Mollo, Bridge Psychology
Kauder, Creative Card Play (aka Bridge Philosopher) or Kauder, Return
of the Bridge Philosopher.
Zia, Bridge My Way
Eric Leong
Ian Payn
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>
>> Ottlik - Kelsey, Adventures in Card Play
>
> Adventures in Card Play is a fun book to read.
++++Yep.
> But is it useful?
++++Nope.
> Have any of you ever executed
> a play from this book in competition?
++++You must be joking.
Gordon Rainsford
I saw Keith Bennett execute an entry-shifting squeeze from this book.
When I commented on it, he said he hadn't read the book.
Douglas Newlands
I thought I should answer my own questions so
1 the ubiquitous Adventures in...
2 Roudinesco's Dictionary of Suit Combinations
3 Lukasc's Bridge Hands for the Connoisseur
4 Matchpoints by Woolsey
5 The Most Puzzling Situations in Bridge Play by Reese
regret finding nothing by Lawrence because I have many of his books
nor "Bridge with the Blue Team".
Maybe greed is good (and I should add them) or has that gone with the
current economic situation?
> Douglas,
> Tasmania
dak...@aol.com
Leve: Encyclopedia of Card Play Techniques/ other? More than one on
advanced play in precious five? Like Ottlik fear less practical but
wanted to read even so.
Advanced defense? Kelsey: Killing Defense/ Kantar: Teaches Advanced
Defense/ Woolsey: Partnership Defense/ Lawrence: Dynamic Defense/
other? More than one in precious five?
What criteria is each blogger imposing? That is fascinating also.
Let's see bridge minds collide here.
boblipton
It is enormously useful if you are interested in sailing.
Bob
OldPalooka
Like the rabbit, I have fallen into an entry shifting squeeze and a
backwash squeeze. They were fun to recognize as they happened, but
neither were executed in the sense that they were the outcome of a
plan.
But the rabbit also knew that there is hope if you elope. And have
you never taken a safety finesse into 'Uncle Tim'? Nor won a finesse
of the ten with AT opposite 98xxx? Nor tried multiple times to discard
a loser, have them all fail, and won the hand by exiting with it?
And you won't find this play in Adventures, but it has a bit of Ottlik
oddity and was inspired by reading "The Way It Is" which were the
original articles that grew into Adventures.
x
AJx
xx
KQJxxxx
AJxxx KQxx
Kx Txx
JTxxx Kx
x AT9x
xxx
Q9xxx
AQxx
x
West dealt and passed at unfavorable. Unfathomably, so did North. We
later managed to bid horribly to land at a phantom 5H X after they bid
to 4S. West led his club, and East, with visions of many many sugar
plums, switched to the DK. In one sense he accomplished his goal, he
eventually won the H10 to take the defense's second trick.
-- Bill Shutts