The Fun Way to Serious Bridge

Zusatztext Alan Truscott The New York Times ...takes the student efficiently through the basic rules of bidding...a sound introduction to play and defense. Informationen zum Autor Harry Lampert, a licensed teacher of the American Bridge Teachers' Association, is a Life-Master of the American Contract Bridge League and has won titles at National, Regional, and Sectional tournaments. Mr. Lampert is also a nationally published cartoonist with illustrations having appeared in The New York Times, Time, True, Esquire, Saturday Evening Post and Saturday Review. Klappentext "The Fun Way To Serious Bridge" is for anyone who wants to learn and understand the fundamentals of the mind-stimulating and challenging game of bridge -- and enjoy every minute of it! Harry Lampert combines his skills as a bridge player and teacher with his artistic talents to bring you a totally new FUN way to learn the game. The magic of his superb cartoons and simple, informative language will help you to absorb the principles of serious contract bridge -- and remember them. You'll laugh and learn every step of the way from opening bids to strip and end plays. Whether novice or seasoned social player, this unique book will make good bridge a simple "trick." You'll learn all about: * Opening bids, suit bids, response and no trump bids, and how to force bids* Competition and the reasons and ways behind it* Big hand bidding such as Blackwood Convention, grand slam force and Gerber Convention* Patterns of play including how tricks are won, the finesse, establishing a long suit, when to pull and delay trumps and entries.* Defensive and advanced play -- plus much more! BASICS OF THE GAME Playing bridge is fun and learning the game should certainly be fun as well. Although the only way to learn the game is to be serious about it, let's approach the game with a relaxed attitude. The first magic number in bridge is 13. There are 13 cards in each hand, 13 tricks in the deck and 13 cards in each suit. If you can count up to 13 in one suit, you're on the way to playing bridge. If you count to 13 in two suits, you're playing good bridge. If you count to 13 in all four suits, you're an expert. PLAYERS Bridge is played by four people. The players facing each other are partners. For convenience we will call one set of partners, North and South, the opposing partners, East and West. DEAL One person shuffles the cards, and deals the cards -- starting to his left -- clockwise, one at a time to each person including himself until all the cards are dealt out. Each person winds up with 13 cards. SUITS Each person then sorts his cards into suits -- placing all the spades together, all the hearts together, all the clubs together and all the diamonds together. To avoid intermixing the suits, alternate the red and black suits in the hand. His "hand" may then look something like this: * The object of the game is to win TRICKS. WHAT IS A TRICK? After the bidding has ended and play commences, each player places a card on the table, face-up in turn clockwise until four cards are played. These four cards constitute a trick. As each player is required to follow suit, (that is, if the first card led is a diamond, each player must play a diamond if he has one) the highest card wins the trick. Remember that this is a partnership game. Therefore, if partner's card is high enough to win the trick you do not have to waste a higher card on that trick. The player who wins the trick then leads (makes the first play) to the next trick. If a player does not have a card in the suit led, he discards a card in another suit, or he may at his option, win the trick by trumping it -- that is, playing any card in the trump suit. WHAT IS TRUMP? Trump is the suit selected in the bidd...

Product details

• Authors: Harry Lampert, Lampert Harry
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster USA
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.05.1986
• EAN: 9780671630270
• ISBN: 978-0-671-63027-0
• Dimensions: 135 mm x 212 mm x 8 mm
• Subjects: Guides > Hobby, home > Games, quizzes; Bridge, GAMES & ACTIVITIES / Card Games / Bridge, Card games: Bridge