Precision Bidding and Precision Play [antikvár]

PRECISION BIDDING AND PRECISION PLAYFOUR YEARS AGO A BOMBSHELL EXPLODED IN THE WORLD OF TOURNAMENT BRIDGE when a team from-Nationalist China, chosen from a few-hundred enthusiasts, finished second to Italy in the world championship. The team were playing a new bidding system called 'Precision', devised by the multi-millionaire C. C. Wei.The initial success for the system was soon followed by many more, and players throughout the world have turned to Precision, hoping for an improvement in their bidding. To guide them, they have depended on a number of books, but none of these expound the System in sufficient detail to deal effectively with the many tricky situations which arise in tournament bridge. It was clear that the British, Italian and American teams who were playing Precision so successfully had polished the System in a way not described in any book. This situation has now been rectified by the publication of Terence Reese's Precision Bidding and Precision Play, This book explains and considers in depth every bidding situation which is likely to occur and whole chapters are devoted to single themes. In other words, here is a definitive account of the system, and pairs playing Precision are no longer thrown back on their own initiative in various sequences. To my mind, Terence Reese is by far the best living writer on bridge and this book in every way lives up to his usual high standard.LEWIS R. GRiTTiN in the South Wales Evening Argus