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Michaels and Unusual 2 Notrump contract bridge conventions were designed to provide you with a vehicle to overcall weak, two-suited hands.
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This is an important convention to master. It’s a contract bridge bidding convention that’s a continuation of the Jacoby Transfer idea, adding a way to show weakish or slammish hands…
Inverted Minor Raises, a valuable competitive bridge bidding system that allows the responder to accelerate the auctions when holding five or more trumps and a weak hand.
Learn how to make it tough for your opponents to find their best fits when you hold long suits with weak hands.
Another Bridge bid-saving convention, Kickback allows greater ease in minor suit slam key card auctions. In general, it provides more room to share information with your partner when trying to…
How to bid a minor after partner’s No Trump opener? Four Suit Transfers will solve those problem hands.
Learn how to bid those pesky 5-4 major suit hands after opening NT bids. 23 pgs.
Show support for responder’s major in competitive auctions.
Maximal Doubles is a conventional double to make a game-try, after you and partner have found a major suit fit.
The Stayman Convention is useful in enabling your partnership to find a four-four major fit after a Notrump opening bid or overcall.
Jacoby Transfer is one of the most useful conventions in Bridge. A Jacoby Transfer is bid by responder after a Notrump opening bid or overcall to show a hand with…
With Four-Suit Transfers available, traditional three level responses to 1NT have become obsolete. Try some new options.
1NT Forcing is the keystone to the 2/1 Game Force system of bidding. It is the one convention you should learn going forward.
One of the most useful conventions in bridge, Splinter Bids help you find those elusive slams.
Jacoby 2 Notrump is a bridge convention used to show a balanced, game-forcing raise after you have a major suit opening bid.
A bridge bidding convention designed to help your partnership reach those borderline games which succeed when you have well fitting hands.
Use Unusual vs. Unusual to combat the advantages that your opponents gain when using Unusual 2NT to interfere in your auctions.
A major suit raise structure designed around the advantages that can be realized when assured that responder has a four-card or longer raise in your major suit.
Drury is a bridge convention used to allow opener to open light in third and fourth chair with safety.
One of the most useful bids in bridge, cuebidding in competitive auctions will give you that winning edge.
The Take-out Double Family consists of Take-out, Negative, Responsive, Snapdragon, Balancing and Re-opening Doubles.
A method to refine your slam bidding, Key Card allows you to guarantee the quality of your trump suit before you commit to slam and the Specific King feature helps…
Cuebidding Controls, a mandatory tool for modern bridge play, is a method that can be used in a variety of situations. If you think slam is possible, but need to…
Invented by Eric Rodwell, Serious 3NT is a valuable tool in exploring for slam. Every 2/1 Game Force partnership should adopt this convention today!
Opening bids allowing you the luxury of showing a good six-card suit, but a weak hand are invaluable in modern bridge.
Accelerate your game by adopting the 2/1 Game force System. This volume provides a good basic start of the bids and conventions useful when adopting 2/1.
Good/Bad 2NT is a bid developed to offset the advantage your opponents gain in competitive auctions where your partnership is forced to bid at the three-level to judge the proper…
Very strong hands are difficult to bid. When should you open 2C? After you open 2C what should you play. The answers are inside.
Learn how to show one-suited and two-suited minor suit, slammish hands after partner has opened 2NT.
A perfect addition to your 2/1 system, Two-Way Checkback allows you to differentiate between weak, invitational and strong hands. Replace New Minor Forcing with a more sophisticated tool.
Fourth Suit Forcing Bridge Convention occurs after three suits have been bid and no major suit has been bid and raised. A bid of the fourth suit, the unbid suit…
Your first steps in learning the techniques and mechanics of playing a bridge hand. Trumping, finessing, cross-trumping and establishing a long suit are some of the techniques you will learn.
Learn Intermediate Bridge conventions and the strategy behind Cross-ruffing, Endplays, Squeezes and Double Squeezes.
A beginning guide to bridge written for children. The mechanics of bridge, counting your points, opening the bidding in a suit or in no trump, responding to the bidding, Jacoby…
A beginning bridge book in black and white designed for children ages 8 thru 15.
1NT Forcing is the keystone to the 2/1 Game Force system of bidding. It is the one bridge convention you should learn going forward. We’ve printed this book in black…
Bridge students quickly discover that ‘basic bidding’ will only get them so far. To improve it is necessary to master a certain number of bidding conventions, and be prepared both…
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Bridge students quickly discover that basic bidding will only get them so far. To improve it is necessary to master a certain number of bidding conventions, and be prepared both…
THE WINNING BRIDGE CONVENTIONS SERIES Competitive Bidding Bridge students quickly discover that basic bidding will only get them so far. To improve it is necessary to master a certain number…
What do you bid after the opponents overcall your 1NT bid? Lebensohl Bridge Convention gives you the bidding structure needed to show weak and strong hands held by your partner/…
This beginning bridge book is for a complete novice or serves the returning player who would like a comprehensive bridge convention review.
Your next steps in learning bridge; we’ll review Overcalls, Take-out Doubles, Weak Two Bids, Preemptive Bids, Gerber and Blackwood Conventions, plus, Strong 2 Clubs with the 2 Diamonds Waiting Response…
Learn some more sophisticated bridge bidding conventions and review some of your rebids with strong hands.
