Customer Reviews

Modern Bridge Conventions

5 star:		(15)
4 star:		(5)
3 star:		(1)
2 star:		(0)
1 star:		(0)

 

 

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.

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.

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.

Ever sit down with a pick up pard, and agree on a convention, and sure enough it comes up in play? The convention is bid, pard makes a response, and then ??? Do you both know all the follow up bids? If not, then don't bother using the convention, the bad results will cancel out the good, and you will be frustrated.

What I liked about this book:
1) it covers a wide range of commonly used conventions. It may not have the absolute newest, but overall it covers many of them. (Also take a look at Mike Lawrence's Conventions)

2) It covers not just the first response, but all the additional responses.

3) The authors offer their opinion on the value of the conventions, and have a 1,2,3 star rating scale as to complexity/need.

4) its well written, clear, and thorough.

When I have a question on a Convention I first try Mike Lawrence's Conventions and this book.

My boyfriend has been a Bridge player for seven years. I'm relatively new to the game. We both love this book. It breaks down each convention as well as giving details on defense, responses, and re-bids. While many Bridge books cover the conventions of Bridge, very few go into this much detail on what to do *after* you bid the convention.

Also, Root is an excellent writer for beginners/novices. He breaks things down simply. The ratings on each convention help you know which ones are easily mastered. This is also a terrific reference tome to keep handy for online games. If someone says they play a certain convention, you can look it up quickly using the index.

The glossary includes definitions of basic Bridge terms as well as variations of the conventions described.

This book deserves the 5 stars because, though some may argue that the book isn't updated, all the very best conventions are discussed here. The conventions invented since are little, and to my opinion, not much good either. And there is also a glossary with a whole lot of conventions you may like to know, other than the ones discussed in the book

However it's out-of-date. For example, it does not cover Jacoby 2NT and RKC 4NT.

Not only are many conventions covered, they are covered well. I like the authors style, and how they go through the entire sequence of bids. You will be able to use the Convention, ratehr than think you know it only to be surprised by some mystery sequence.

Almost 20 years old, still holding its own.

This is a great book; it's a lot of fun to read, and serves as an indispensable reference. Conventions covered are classified into one-, two-, or three-star categories, suitable for various levels of bidding skills. Although it does not cover some system-specific conventions in detail, it does show how to defend against them.

In my opinion, by adopting the conventions a partnership will be able to bid more accurately, which translates to better scores. Two thumbs up!

This is the standard reference book for bridge conventions. It has been around for years. It is excellent. There is no competition.