This book is all about learning to play and enjoy the game of bridge. The bridge book is an introduction to the most popular bridge system played in the United States today. The system is called Two-Over-One (2/1). The book is for serious beginners and includes many of the conventional bids used by players around the world. All phases of the world's greatest card game are included, You will learn to bid accurately, play like a pro, and defend like a champion. Learning to play bridge will provide years of enjoyment in a social atmosphere where fun, competition, and individual challenge are all in play.

An amusing, lighthearted examination of the crazy world of rubber and duplicate bridge, and the men and women who populate that strange milieu - with a heavy but hilarious accen on the tricks and ploys employed by dedicated bridge fiends to win games, master points, and/or money.

1NT Forcing is the keystone to the 2/1 Game Force system of bidding. It is the one convention you should learn going forward.

Use Unusual vs. Unusual to combat the advantages that your opponents gain when using Unusual 2NT to interfere in your auctions.

Why are the world's top players so successful? They make very few basic mistakes! Players at a less exalted level often make the same mistakes over and over again throughout their bridge careers. In this book you will see 52 of the most frequent mistakes - in bidding, play and defense.

The chapter on each mistake will contain several deals where the original player went wrong. It will end with some tips, to help you avoid making such errors yourself. In the first section, Mistakes in the Bidding, the author has used deals from high-level tournament play, including world championships. The cardplay and the defense in such events are usually excellent but it's amazing how often experts surprise the kibitzers with a bid or call that seems to be a clear mistake. Experts make such errors less often than the rest of us but you will find it instructive to look at these wayward decisions. Try to analyze why the bid was wrong before reading the author's thoughts on the matter. When it comes to declarer play and defense, expert mistakes are rarer. These errors will be illustrated with constructed deals, or examples from a lower level of play.

Every time you eradicate one of these 52 common mistakes from your game, your results will improve. Avoid all of them and... who knows what may happen?

Duplicate bridge is a different game. It's true that you can get by if you play exactly the same way as you would in a home social game or a team match. Duplicate pairs is a highly competitive game, though, and few contestants are happy just to 'get by'. They want to win - not just once in a while but regularly! To be successful at duplicate pairs, you must adjust your bidding. You must know when to compete vigorously, taking a risk in doing so. You must also know when it is right to bid conservatively. You have to understand which contract to choose in various situations. In the play and defence you meet similar dilemmas. Should you risk the contract for a lucrative overtrick? Should you risk giving away an extra trick in defence, hoping that you can beat the contract? This is a book that every novice bridge player needs to read before that first pairs game at their local club.

Bridge is one of the few games you don't have to play for money to enjoy. It's a fun game played by people who want to have fun, but often hide that fact with a serious face and demeanor. Bridge, like good love making, takes time, effort, patience, concentration, and energy and is good for your mind, body, and soul. In Alterman Big Club, author Dr. Stanley B. Alterman presents a new world of bridge-the Alterman Big Club (ABC)-that enhances the current aspects of the game you now enjoy eliminating complexity and adding constructive precision.

Developed over the last five years, Alterman Big Club details a simple, novel system that bridge players can use to obtain above-average results. He uses his personal experience and research as a starting place for an insider's guide that presents some history of playing systems and insights into the key strategies used by successful professional players. He invokes the KISS (keep it simple stupid) principle to allow players to learn the ABC system as easy as they did their ABCs.

Alterman Big Club shows how ABC is a precise system marked by with natural, simple bidding rules and none of the complexity and ambiguities of Precision or Standard American bridge bidding systems.

With the publication of Sixpack, six keycard RKCB has come of age!

As soon you identify a double fit, don't ask for keycards - just "launch" and tell. In most cases, you can find out about keycards - all six - below the game level. Part I of the book lays out a set of basic rules for any casual partnership to apply quickly and easily. Part II gets more advanced and complex, but operates along the same principles. Apply Sixpack throughout your notrump structure and expand it to a wide range of standard bidding situations.

With many examples and four extensive quizzes for partners to practice the convention together, Sixpack gives the reader the experience and confidence to use the convention effectively at the table.

A 40-page manual to support the popular Learn Bridge in a Day? introductory seminar. Includes basics of point counting, opening, responding, scoring and play of the hand. Perfect for true beginners - fast, fun, fundamental.

A useful convention enabling your partnership to find a four/four major fit after a Notrump opening bid or overcall.

Workbook 1 is 30 hands to practice opening bids at the 1 level in major suits, minor suits, and no trump. Includes examples of distributional hands worthy of opening with lighter values. Workbook 2 is 80 hands to practice responding to 1 level opening bids in a suit - 20 consecutive hands for each suit open.

Learn the basics of Cross-ruffing, Endplays, Squeezes and Double Squeezes.

Show support for responder's major in competitive auctions.

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 how to make it tough for your opponents to find their best fits when you hold long suits with weak hands.

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 of bidding conventions, and be prepared both to play them and to play against them. Each of the books in this series covers a number of useful conventions, explaining them carefully along with numerous examples and quizzes to help the reader understand what is being learned. Included in this book: Weak Two Bids, Preemptive Bidding, Michaels Cuebid, Unusual 2NT, Sandwich NT, Unusual vs. Unusual, Cuebidding in Competitive Auctions and Good/Bad 2NT. PATTY TUCKER (Dunwoody, Georgia) is an ABTA Master Bridge Teacher and co-founder of Whirlwind Bridge and Atlanta Junior Bridge. Her success at the bridge table culminated in her victory in the 2000 Baldwin Flight A North American Open Pairs with long-time bridge partner Kevin Collins. Patty and Kevin were married in 2006.

This book takes the reader further along the path traversed by the acclaimed Card by Card. The author presents intriguing problems in declarer play and defense and follows them with comprehensive analysis, given with a light touch and the occasional entertaining diversion. The critics on other books by Roy Hughes: Building a Bidding System "Anyone who considers himself to be a serious student of the game will enjoy reading this book and learn plenty in the process." - Fred Gitelman Card by Card - Further Adventures at the Bridge Table "Hughes writes with a gentle authority that endears him to readers and I can thoroughly recommend this book to players at or seeking to attain a high level of play." - Julian Pottage Canada's Bridge Warriors: Eric Murray and Sami Kehela "This is a great look at a great career. Highly recommended." - Bridge Magazine The Contested Auction "Hughes has written one good book after another, covering all aspects of the game." - The Bridge World Roy Hughes lives with his wife and two children in Toronto, Canada. Two of his books have won the International Bridge Press Association's Book of the Year award. His other pursuits include chess, classical music and astronomy.

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 to play them and to play against them. Each of the books in this series covers a number of useful conventions, explaining them carefully along with numerous examples and quizzes to help the reader understand what is being learned. Included in this book: Stayman, Jacoby Transfers, Texas Transfers, Smolen, Four-Suit Transfers, Three-level Responses to a 1NT Opening Bid, Three Spades over 2NT and Lebensohl. PATTY TUCKER (Dunwoody, Georgia) is an ABTA Master Bridge Teacher and co-founder of Whirlwind Bridge and Atlanta Junior Bridge. Her success at the bridge table culminated in her victory in the 2000 Baldwin Flight A North American Open Pairs with long-time bridge partner Kevin Collins. Patty and Kevin were married in 2006.