Better Bridge for Better Players [antikvár]

Author's Notewith the constant wrangling among vaiious authorities over the merits of their respective bidding systems, there has been a tendency to subordinate the study of the proper technique of play to bidding. In the field of play th.ere have been important developments in recent years, and the need for an up-to-date treatise on the subject has. been felt.This book is essentially one on the play of the cards but a chapter on bidding methods has been included, written with an eye to presenting practical bidding tactics, rather than the discussion of " systems." Regardless of the system you may employ, there can be no safe departure from certain fundamental truths. These have been stressed.Certain phases of play have been treated at greater length than others. Any apparent disproportion may be assigned to two considerations : (a) The practical importance of the particular subjectthat is, the frequency with which the problems arise in actual play ; and (b) The ease with which a subject lends itself to instruction from books.In a work of this sort, little claim can be laid to originality and I make no such pretence. I have borrowed freely from numerous reliable sources and, in a sense, all those who have previously written on the subject are collaborators iDf this text.This work may be regarded as a reference book and it is my suggestion that you make no effort to read it as you would a novel. Take up one subject at a time and, in working out