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Dive into the Dobble Puzzle Book, where all of your favourite
Dobble icons have combined to create more than 140 creative puzzles
inspired by the award-winning game. Everyone who loves Dobble will
enjoy these colourful challenges, with puzzles ranging from Seeing
Dobble and Dobble Trouble to elbboD and Wobble. There are even a
series of head-to-head games for you to solve while racing against
your friends.
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 Thurston's bridge textbook 25 Steps to Learning 2/1 (December
2004; ISBN 9781894154468) was an instant bestseller, winning the
2003 American Bridge Teachers' Association Book of the Year award.
In a tantalizing postscript to that book, he promised a sequel, one
that would cover 'the rest of the story' for those who wanted to
add modern sophistication to their 2/1 bidding. Here at last he
delivers, and the long wait has been worth it. The book describes
an understandable and playable version of today's most popular
system, something that has been missing from bridge literature
until now. 2/1 game forcing ('two-over-one game forcing') is a
bidding system in modern contract bridge structured around various
formulaic responses to a one-level opening bid. Many improving
bridge players enjoy the benefits of the 2/1 system.
What are the odds against winning the Lottery, making money in a casino, or backing the right horse? Every day, people make judgements on these matters and face other decisions that rest on their understanding of probability: buying insurance, following medical advice, carrying an umbrella. Yet many of us have a frightening ignorance of how probability works. Taking Chances presents an entertaining and fascinating exploration of probability, revealing traps and fallacies in the field. It describes and analyses a remarkable variety of situations where chance plays a role, including football pools, the Lottery, TV games, sport, cards, roulette, coins, and dice. This new edition has been fully updated, and includes information on "Who Wants to be a Millionaire?" and "The Weakest Link", plus a new chapter on Probability for Lawyers.
A pocket guide to bridge, written by two internationally regarded
writers and players For every bridge player who wants to be sure of
the best bid, lead, or play, this book is designed as a quick
reference. It includes what players need to know for opening bids,
responses, and rebids. There is also guidance on hand evaluation,
competitive bidding strategy, opening leads, declarer play, and
defense so that the reader will have all the basic essentials of
good play within easy reach.
Casino games and traditional card games have rich and idiosyncratic
histories, complex subcultures and player practices, and facilitate
the flow of billions of dollars each year through casinos and card
rooms, and between professional players and amateurs. They have
nevertheless been overlooked by game scholars due to the negative
ethical weight of “gambling†– with such games pathologized
and labelled as deviance or mental illness, few look beyond to
unpick the games, their players, and their communities. The Casino,
Card and Betting Game Reader offers 25 chapters studying the
communities playing these games, the distinctive cultures and
practices that have emerged around them, their activities and
beliefs and interpersonal relationships, and how these games
influence – both positively and negatively – the lives and
careers of millions of game players around the world. It is the
first of a new series of edited collections, Play Beyond the
Computer, dedicated to exploring the play of games beyond computers
and games consoles.
20 years ago, bridge writer Mike Lawrence published a series of
short pamphlets for intermediate players with advice on various
aspects of bidding and card play. Long unavailable, this material
has now been revised, updated, and republished in three anthology
volumes, each comprising about 10 of the original booklets. Mike
Lawrence is acknowledged as one of the two or three best writers in
the world for intermediate players, and there will be a ready
audience for this series in its new format. The second volume in a
three-volume series, 'Mike Lawrence Bridge Tips', based on bridge
tips for intermediate players first published twenty years ago. All
the material has been completely revised and updated.
This remarkable book is based on the close observation of the
solutions by the Italian Champions to bidding problems. Acute
judgements produced astonishing results, which Wladyslaw Izdebski
and a leading bridge coach, Wlodzimierz Krysztofczyk, have analysed
to create an exhilarating text. No competent bridge player will
want to miss the opportunity of following this exciting work.
Played around the world - according to one famous player, if you
play bridge, you will make friends wherever you go. If you want to
bid accurately and achieve greatly improved results at the bridge
table, you have to master the Losing Trick Count. It is a tried and
tested method of hand evaluation which has stood the test of time.
Ron Klinger, famous international player, author and teacher who
has more books to his credit than many players have had good hands,
has brought the LTC up to date by relating it to modern systems and
conventions. Now in its fifteenth impression since original
publication, this remarkable book is set to hold its place as the
standard text on the Losing Trick Count.
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