57+ Bridge Conventions Made Easy: The New Go-To Quick Reference Book
Alvin Lesser
57+ Bridge Conventions Made Easy: The New Go-To Quick Reference Book
Alvin Lesser
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57+ Bridge Conventions Made Easy clearly and concisely describes and explains conventions for all bridge players to maximize their bidding, enabling both partners to have an exact understanding of each other’s bids. With over 200 charts and tables, and many examples, novice and intermediate bridge players can easily learn how to communicate the most popular bridge conventions. Advanced players are also able to learn new and unfamiliar conventions. This book is easy to read as it has no extraneous details. It is written clearly and concisely so that each member of the partnership will have an exact understanding of their partner’s bid. This book is loaded with information about how to use - and avoid abusing - a long list of conventions. 57+ Bridge Conventions Made Easy can be used by steady partners and by casual partners. The book is arranged alphabetically and indexed so that a convention can be easily found. Awarded the 2016 eLit Gold Award for Best How-To Book and the Bronze Award for Education/Academic/Teaching. The Revised 2nd Edition was edited by Brent Manley. Format: four-color, 8.5 x 11 (216 mm x 280 mm), 172 pages. Conventions include:
1 Balancing
2 Bergen Responses
3 Blackwood
4 Brozel
5 Cappelletti
6 Checkback Stayman
7 Cuebids
8 DOPI, ROPI, DEPO & REPO
9 DONT
10 Drury
11 Flannery
12 Forcing
13 Fourth-Suit Forcing
14 Gambling 3NT
15 Gerber (4 Clubs)
16 Grand Slam Force
17 Inverted Minor Raises
18 Jacoby Transfers
19 Jacoby 4-Suit Transfers
20 Jacoby 2NT
21 Jordan 2NT
22 Journalist Leads
23 Landy
24 Lavinthal Discards
25 Law of Total Tricks
26 Lebensohl 2NT Over Opponent’s Weak Two-Bid
27 Losing Trick Count
28 Maximal Double
29 Michaels Cue Bid
30 Mini Roman
31 Minor-Suit Stayman
32 Namyats
33 Negative Double
34 New-Minor Forcing
35 Odd-Even Discards
36 Ogust
37 Overcalls
38 Preemptive Bids
39 Puppet Stayman
40 Responsive Double
41 Rules in Bridge
42 Rusinow Leads
43 Smolen Transfer
44 Splinter Bid
45 Stayman
46 Step Responses to a Strong Two Club Opening
47 Strong 1 Club (Precision)
48 Support Doubles
49 Takeout Double
50 Texas Transfers
51 Strong 2 Clubs
52 Two Over One Game Force
53 Upside-Down Count and Attitude
54 Unusual 2NT
55 Weak Jump Shift
56 Weak 1NT
57 Weak Two-Bids
58 Western Cue Bid
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