Timing and Communications (Card Play Made Easy) (Vol 4) [Paperback]

Ron Klinger (Author), Andrew Kambites (Author)

Book Description

Series: Card Play Made Easy | Publication Date: March 2000

Timing -- when to play particular cards -- and communications with your partner, are two vitally important elements in card play. You may hold all the right cards yet by playing them in the wrong order and by misunderstanding your partner's intentions, you can come to grief. This excellent book shows you how to avoid grief and to enjoy the pleasures of success at the bridge table

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About the Author

Ron Klinger is a leading bridge writer, teacher and critic Andrew Kambites is a top English bridge teacher and journalist Ron Klinger is probably the world's leading bridge author and teacher with more than fifty books to his credit. He is also an Australian Grand Master and a World Bridge Federation International Master.

Product Details

• Paperback: 96 pages
• Publisher: Trafalgar Square Publishing (March 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0575067446
• ISBN-13: 978-0575067448
• Product Dimensions: 7.8 x 6 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.5 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,538,624 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Nice set of problems, Clear and to the point, March 1, 2006

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This review is from: Timing and Communications (Card Play Made Easy) (Vol 4) (Paperback)

I very much like Klingers 4 volume set Card Play Made Easy.
The books are concise, with good illustrative problems, and have lots of well designed quizzes. At the end of the book is a long quiz testing all the material.

Not only do the problems test the subject matter they also test overall card play technique. For example:
Lets say the problem is one of entries, with the reader focusing on one or two suits. Lets say a third suit contains AKxxx opposite Jx. The book solution reminds the reader to first play the Ace to see if the Queen drops. Its very unlikely, but if you get into good habits all these extra 1%, 2%, 3% chances add up. Sometimes two or more of these extra chances occur in a hand. Using correct technique costs nothing and may help you make an extra contract one in 20 - 30 times, without having to know advanced techniques, such as double squeezes.

Unlike the Bridge Technique series by David Bird, these small books pack a huge number of well designed problems into a small space. (perhaps 150 problems vs. Birds 36) They are far better value for the money than the Bird books.