A complete work covering every angle of defending a bridge hand, by "America's number one bridge teacher."--Alfred Sheinwold, Los Angeles Times Syndicate. This is the first book on the 68-year history of the game to deal in a comprehensive, organized way with every aspect of this vital area.
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A complete work covering every angle of defending a bridge hand, by "America's number one bridge teacher."--Alfred Sheinwold, Los Angeles Times Syndicate. This is the first book on the 68-year history of the game to deal in a comprehensive, organized way with every aspect of this vital area.
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17 of 18 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Defend with Root,
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This review is from: How to Defend a Bridge Hand (Paperback)
Bill Root's "How to Defend a Bridge Hand" is an excellent book that teaches one to learn the foundamentals of defence in bridge. It covers all the important facets of the defence. The quiz after each chapter and the 36 random quiz are useful for one to review the materials covered in the book. No doubt one will benefit a lot from reading this book. The only concern for me is that the problems presented in the book and quiz are all with the goal preset: you need to defeat the contract by "exactly" one trick. I would like to see the book include problems involving, e.g., matchpoint considerations and judgement on when to take the tricks (sometimes setting the contract is not the goal of the hand)
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
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Great into to defense, good beginner/Intermediate level book,
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This review is from: How to Defend a Bridge Hand (Paperback)
All the basics are covered, with LOTS of examples and non-double dummy problems. It *WILL* take you a while to go through the book, but its well worth it. The book doesn't focus on difficult defense, like the Kelsey Killing Defense at Bridge books. It focuses on general principles, and signaling. A nice touh is a number of different signaling methods are presented at the end of the book. The reader can become familiar with what they may face, and decide what signals to use.
Roots book on Declarer Play is a good beginner/intermediate level book. His book on Conventions is excellent, despite not having all the newest conventions.
7 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Thorough but uninspired,
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This review is from: How to Defend a Bridge Hand (Paperback)
There's no question that William Root knows what he's writing about, but I found this book rather dry and uninspiring. Still, it's well organized and formatted with lots of example hands and reading it would certainly be of some value to the improving player. I'd recommend "Card Play Technique" by Victor Mollo instead.
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With a three-card suit containing no honor cards (such as 9 7 4), lead the highest; to inform your partner that you have led from a worthless suit. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
first trick with the ace, first trick with the king, first diamond trick, partner wins with the ace, second heart lead, five spade tricks, note that declarer, second club trick, third spade lead, second diamond trick, first club trick, natural trump trick, second heart trick, second spade lead, suit preference signal, one club trick, contract one trick, first spade lead, second diamond lead, third spade trick, one heart trick, first trick with the queen, declarer cashes, first heart trick, one spade trick Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
North East South, All Pass Partner, Quiz Answers, Rule of Eleven, Double Pass, West Pass, Bridge Hand, East East, Nest Pass, Defensive Trump, Nkst Pass, Random Quiz, Unusual Plays New!
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With a three-card suit containing no honor cards (such as 9 7 4), lead the highest; to inform your partner that you have led from a worthless suit. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
first trick with the ace, first trick with the king, first diamond trick, partner wins with the ace, second heart lead, five spade tricks, note that declarer, second club trick, third spade lead, second diamond trick, first club trick, natural trump trick, second heart trick, second spade lead, suit preference signal, one club trick, contract one trick, first spade lead, second diamond lead, third spade trick, one heart trick, first trick with the queen, declarer cashes, first heart trick, one spade trick Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
North East South, All Pass Partner, Quiz Answers, Rule of Eleven, Double Pass, West Pass, Bridge Hand, East East, Nest Pass, Defensive Trump, Nkst Pass, Random Quiz, Unusual Plays New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- How to Play a Bridge Hand: 12 Easy Chapters to Winning Bridge by America's Premier Teacher by William S. Root in Copyright
- Modern Bridge Conventions by William S. Root in Copyright
- The ABCs of Bridge by William S. Root in Front Matter
- How the Experts Win at Bridge by Larry Cohen on page 248
- How I Became a Life Master Playing the Weak No Trump by Eric v.d. Luft in Back Matter
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