Bid Better Play Better: How to Think at the Bridge Table [Paperback]

Dorothy Hayden Truscott (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 28, 2006

Revised and updated. Winning advice on bidding and play for the intermediate, based on five card major openings.

Product Details

• Paperback: 176 pages
• Publisher: Baron Barclay Bridge; Revised and Updated edition (March 28, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0939460777
• ISBN-13: 978-0939460779
• Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (15 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #37,177 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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36 of 39 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars An excellent beginner/intermediate bridge player book, November 2, 1997

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This review is from: Bid Better, Play Better (Paperback)

This book(copyright 1966,pub.1976) is an easy book to follow and understand. It has an enjoyable flow in its teaching and understanding of the game of bridge. I found it brought me back to the basics of the game. It cut through all the clutter that seems to attach itself to the game of bridge. I had initially thought:"What can an old book teach me!". Well I learned a lot! It is a bridge book for everyone.

19 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Learn to think like a bridge player, May 1, 2003

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Bob Simkins "Bob" (DOTHAN, AL USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Bid Better Play Better: How to Think at the Bridge Table (Paperback)

This is a new, updated edition of one of the greatest bridge books of all time. Teaches you how to think like a bridge player. Much of the material is aimed toward advanced beginners and intermediates, but even new players will benefit from her clear approach and practical advice.

14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars . . . or Card Sense for Dummies, January 19, 2007

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J. B. Potter (Clio, SC USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Bid Better Play Better: How to Think at the Bridge Table (Paperback)

Thank goodness Dorothy Hayden wrote this classic BEFORE "<fill in the blank> for Dummies" became the obvious title for any non-text book one might read to learn ANYTHING. Yet, that is really what this book is about. Reading (and practicing what you learn by reading) will indeed develop "card sense" where once there was very little (or none). After you have the basics of our amazing game in hand, this book can help you take another step toward mastery.

If you're up on modern bidding methods, you'll feel a temptation to skip the "old" material on bidding. Don't do it. Unless you're expert enough to design a complete bidding system from earth, air, fire, and water; the presentation of the fundamentals herein will help you improve both your understanding of Standard American (or 2/1) biddng methods AND your grasp of the foundation of your own bidding methods (even if you bid differently). That foundation will help you intelligently incorporate (or reject) new methods as your personal biddng methods and style mature.