Commonsense Bidding

Price: $ 23.95 CDN

Category: Books
Author: William S. Root

ISBN: 0-517-88430-5

Front Cover:

Commonsense Bidding

THE MOST COMPLETE GUIDE TO MODERN METHODS OF STANDARD BIDDING
Foreword by ALAN TRUSCOTT Bridge Editor, New York Times

Back Cover:

Charles Goren and Omar Sharif say:
"Bill Root is acknowledged as the country's best bridge teacher."

In this major new volume, renowned bridge expert and teacher Bill Root presents a modern, thorough, and complete guide to basic, commonsense bidding. Using logical, easy-to-follow Root covers all the bidding essentials in eighteen chapters:

1. How to Value Your Hand
2. Opening Notrump Bids
3. The Stayman Convention Doubles, and Rescue Bids
4. Opening Suit Bids of One
5. Responses to Opening Suit Bids of One
6. Rebids by the Opening Bidder
7. Rebids by the Responder
8. Opening Preemptive Bids
9. Opening Suit Bids of Two
10. Overcalls
11. Takeout Doubles
12. Penalty Doubles, Lead-Directing Doubles, and Rescue Bids
13. Balancing
14. Bidding Over Preemptive Bids
15. Responses and Rebids in Competitive Auctions
16. Sacrifice Bids
17. Slam Bidding
18. The Scoring and the Strategy

Root treats just about every situation that the average player will encounter in standard bidding and supplies copious illustrative examples.

As a Player: Bill Root has won dozens of major titles and has been considered one of America's leading players for more than thirty years.

As a Teacher: He is rated as one of the best teaches of all time and probably has taught more students than anyone in history.

As an Author: He has written many bridge books and is co-author of the ver popular Modern Bridge Conventions.

As an Authority: For six years he represented the Association of American Playing Card Manufacturers as its "authority on card games."