This easy-to-follow book covers in detail more than 50 of the most practical bridge conventions in use today. A glossary, which also serves as an index, lists more than 250 popular conventions, treatments, and systems. "Every bridge enthusiast should have it on his bookshelf."--Alfred Sheinwold, Los Angeles Times Syndicate.
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This easy-to-follow book covers in detail more than 50 of the most practical bridge conventions in use today. A glossary, which also serves as an index, lists more than 250 popular conventions, treatments, and systems. "Every bridge enthusiast should have it on his bookshelf."--Alfred Sheinwold, Los Angeles Times Syndicate.
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22 of 22 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
excellent reference book,
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This review is from: Modern Bridge Conventions (Paperback)
Most useful to the intermediate or advanced bridge player, this books offers more conventions than you ever thought existed. An excellent glossery allows quick review of forgotten techniques and points to the correct page for an expansion. Conventions range from the very simple (convenient minors) to the much more complicated (lebensohl) with very thorough explanations. Overall, a very handy reference book, especially when wanting to explore new conventions or playing with a new partner with a different bidding system.
17 of 18 people found the following review helpful:
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Great way to get started with duplicate conventions,
By Neil E. Webner "By Design" (Charlotte, NC) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Modern Bridge Conventions (Paperback)
This is the first book to buy when considering adding conventions to your duplicate play. The index tells you each convention's application and the detailed description tells you the level of play usually expected when using the convention. What's more, you'll learn not just the first bidder's convention rules, but the responder's as well. . .and sometimes the bidder's rebid and the responder's rebid. Plus how to handle interference.I found that not every convention is up to modern snuff (for instance, most modern players will bid Michaels even with a middling hand). But each of the conventions described needs to be adapted to your level of play and partner's agreement anyway. Many of us at the Columbus Bridge Center who have been playing duplicate for just a year or so are using Modern Bridge Conventions as our entree into the world of expert bridge.
13 of 14 people found the following review helpful:
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buy this book!,
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This review is from: Modern Bridge Conventions (Paperback)
this is a wonderful book, with plenty of examples to show possibilities for response bids. you'll find that the conventions you play with and think you know have many more useful twists to them. very good for fine-tuning or designing your partnership conventions.
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The conventions of this first chapter deal with responding to balanced notrump opening bids. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
splinter bid, normal rebid, transfer preempts, enemy suit, enemy overcall, real club suit, other rebid, two notrump, maximal overcall, none vul, grand slam force, unusual notrump overcall, transfer bids, three notrump, suit overcall, quantitative invitation, agreed trump suit, weak notrumps, notrump shows, slam try, slam interest, new suit shows, bidding philosophy, unbid suits, suit bid Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Partner Opp, Other Conventional Calls, Extended Splinter Bids, Acol Three-Notrump Opening, Double Raise Forcing, One-Club Forcing, Length Promised, Redouble Implies No Fit, Single Raise Constr, Single Raise Forcing, Sound Light Solid Minor New!
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The conventions of this first chapter deal with responding to balanced notrump opening bids. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
splinter bid, normal rebid, transfer preempts, enemy suit, enemy overcall, real club suit, other rebid, two notrump, maximal overcall, none vul, grand slam force, unusual notrump overcall, transfer bids, three notrump, suit overcall, quantitative invitation, agreed trump suit, weak notrumps, notrump shows, slam try, slam interest, new suit shows, bidding philosophy, unbid suits, suit bid Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Partner Opp, Other Conventional Calls, Extended Splinter Bids, Acol Three-Notrump Opening, Double Raise Forcing, One-Club Forcing, Length Promised, Redouble Implies No Fit, Single Raise Constr, Single Raise Forcing, Sound Light Solid Minor New!
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- The Mammoth Book of Bridge by Mark Horton on page 276, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- How I Became a Life Master Playing the Weak No Trump by Eric v.d. Luft on page 26, page 162, and page 164
- Go for the Gold!: Becoming an ACBL Life Master by Burt Saxon on page 45
- The ABCs of Bridge by William S. Root in Front Matter
- How the Experts Win at Bridge by Larry Cohen on page 250
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