How to Play a Bridge Hand

Price: $21.95 CDN

Category: Books
Author: William S. Root

ISBN: 0-517-88159-4

Front Cover:

How to Play a Bridge Hand
12 Easy Chapters to Winning Bridge by America's Premier Teacher
30 Years' Experience in a Book

Back Cover:

This book is not for experts nor for beginners, but it is for the 90 percent of the players in between.The 300 or more bridge hands included here are among Bill Root's favorites, collected by him during his thirty years as a teacher. This experience eminently qualifies him as an expert judge in the selection of hands and their presentation so that the average player can understand and learn.

This major work on how to play a bridge hand is divided into twelve chapters (with a quiz at the end of each chapter) :

1. How to Play Suit Combinations
2. Blocking the Opponents' Communication
3. Communication Problems
4. Trump Entries, Timing, and Ruffing Losers in the Dummy
5. Trump Control Problems
6. Choosing the Master Hand; the Crossruff; and Ruffing in the Long Hand
7. Going with the Odds
8. Clues from the Opening Lead (including the Rule of 11) and Clues from the Bidding
9. How to Count the Suits and the Squeeze Play
10. The Throw-In Play (Endplay)
11. Deception and Psychology
12. Matchpoint Strategy (Duplicate Bridge)

"It is not in the least surprising to see this splendid effort from Bill Root. What leaves us wondering is the question of why no one has been able to do this before...."
The Bridge World

Bill Root lives in New York