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Bridge
Technique Series
by David
Bird & Marc Smith
Master Point Press, Paperback, available from
Bridge
Plus
£5.95 each or all three for £15.00
The Bridge Technique Series is designed
to take the reader through the most important aspects of card play technique
at bridge. Each book in the series focuses on a different topic, and wherever
possible the tactics and strategy are considered from the point of view
of both declarer and defenders.
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Book 1: Entry Management
Bridge is a partnership game, and maintaining communications between
the two hands is equally important for declarer and defenders.
This book begins with basic management
of entries with a single suit, and goes on to discuss issues and
common stratagems that relate to creating entries, killing the opposition
entries, and disrupting smooth communication for the opponents.
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Book 2: Tricks With Trumps
In "Part I - Declarer Play"
you are plunged directly into "Reversing the dummy", followed
by "The trump coup" and "Other coups with the trump
suit".
In each book in the series after each section there are "Points
to Remember", and one here is: "For a trump coup to succeed,
you need to reduce your trump length to match that of the key defender."
In "Part II - Defense"
the authors continue in similar testing vein with "Defending
against trump coups", "Promoting trump tricks in defense"
and "Taking control of the trump suit".
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Book 3: Saftey Plays
Safety plays are card play techniques
that are used to maximize your chances of making a certain number
of tricks, often by giving up a trick that did not necessarily have
to be lost. In essence, these plays are used to 'take insurance'
against an extremely unlucky lie of the opponents' cards.
This book explains how to work out
safety plays in a suit in isolation as well as in the context of
the whole deal.
Each of these three books has 64
pages, which are well utilized and provide good value. A further
nine books are planned in the series.
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