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The Official Encyclopedia of Bridge (Hardcover)

by Henry Francis (Author)

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Fascinating bridge facts, hands, and anecdotes, interesting biographies of many world-class players, explainations of bridge terms and conventions, history of the game.

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Hardcover: 1000 pages
Publisher: American Contract Bridge League; 6 edition (April 25, 2002)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0943855446
ISBN-13: 978-0943855448
Product Dimensions: 9.8 x 7 x 2.3 inches
Shipping Weight: 4.1 pounds

Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent all-round bridge reference, December 23, 2000

By	"tangcy" (Ipoh, Perak Malaysia) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Official Encyclopedia of Bridge (Hardcover)

The Official Encyclopaedia of Bridge is an excellent all-round bridge reference. It provides everything you could possibly want to know about bridge. Biographies are well-researched, conventions explained in detail. Obscure coups, endplays, squeezes are provided and explained with diagrammed examples. A great number of pages are dedicated in card combinations and deals with this subject is dealt in a comprehensive and complete manner, a first in bridge literature. I thoroughly recommend this book, my only slight complaint is that the book is getting slightly out of date and perhaps it is time for new edition. Bridge in the internet has grown tremendously between now and the time of print and this subject has only received little coverage in this edition.

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4.0 out of 5 stars decent, March 17, 2006

By	Viorel Anghel (Bucharest, Romania) - See all my reviews

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a decent reference. i have only two things to complain: it's too north-american oriented (for example, there is no explanation for 'polish club' or for 'standard french system') and it doesn't have any website or electronic contact for updates/comments etc.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Makes for a great gift., June 27, 2009

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This was a gift for my wife, an avid bridge player. She was most pleased. She had earlier volumes, but was excited to get the current one.

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