Bridge Squeezes Complete: Or, Winning End Play Strategy [Paperback]

Clyde E. Love (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 260 pages
• Publisher: Dover Publications (December 1968)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0486219682
• ISBN-13: 978-0486219684
• Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.4 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,140,332 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars THE textbook on squeeze play, October 7, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: Bridge Squeezes Complete: Or, Winning End Play Strategy (Paperback)

This isn't the sort of book you pick up for 10 minutes before bed... it's the sort that you read at a desk with a pad and paper to take notes with! If you're willing to put the time and effort into a serious reading of this book, however, you will learn a tremendous amount.

If you're looking for an accessible, casual introduction to the subject, look elsewhere (I highly recommend David Bird's _Bridge Squeezes for Everyone_). It's also not suitable for beginning players. This is a book for serious study but is well worth the effort.

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great classic, highly recommended to intermediate players, May 12, 1997

By A Customer

This review is from: Bridge Squeezes Complete: Or, Winning End Play Strategy (Paperback)

The bidding is sometimes quaint, the style often terse, but "the play's the thing"... If you're an intermediate or advanced player, and willing to work some things out from terse summaries (a great way to fix learning into your mind, much better than having it spoonfed to you!), this great classic book will offer you hours of entertaining self-improvement: a little theory, a lot of hands to practice it on.

Simple squeezes are perhaps treated a bit cursorily; endplays may be better covered elsewhere. But double squeezes have never been better explained anywhere else, despite this book's venerable age, and the treatment of strip-squeezes, triple squeezes, and compound squeezes, is still among the best. A book you will re-read, and appreciate more deeply, as your understanding of card play grows and ripens in time.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Review by an non-expert bridge player, August 9, 2001

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Pieter Rijken (Wageningen Netherlands) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Bridge Squeezes Complete: Or, Winning End Play Strategy (Paperback)

Absolutely fantastic book on squeezes! The book gives a fairly complete survey all types of squeezes and explains the background and particular structure of each type. It does not just give a lot of diagrams and shows that a squeeze of some type exists. Instead it provides a very clear description of all conditions and the reasoning behind 'the cards should be played in this particular order'. I especially love the chapters on double compound squeezes!