1 comments about Bergen for the Defense.

1. Fun presentation of basic topics on defense. Good book to read for someone who wants to improve. Start here and work your way up.
   
   Kind of expensive for the amount of material, with big text and blank pages.

No comments about Victor Mollo's Bridge Club: How to Turn Masterful Plays into Monstrous Points.

1 comments about Masterpieces of Declarer Play (Master Bridge Series).

1. 72 problems, broken into 3 groups. NT (simplest but not simple), Suit contracts, and Bonus. These problems are not easy, and go beyond the usual card reading, duck a trump to retin control, or Trump Coup. They involve something extra, such as testing the suit layouts and switching plans mid course from a ruff to a partial elimination - end play.
   
   A couple of the hands required teh reader to make inferences about teh palcement of high cards based on the bidding that I think are not backed up by the facts. Not everyone would open a had containing Ace, King, King (10 HCP) with 4432 shape in 1st or 2nd seat. Thus teh inference that that player couldn't have a certain card really not valid. Same for a preempt (weak 2) nun-vulnerable against vulnerable. MANY players will bid a weak 2 with AJxxxx. They don't need anotehr outside king, white on red.
   
   Some complex squeezes (I smelled them but couldn't figure out what to do), some hands where you try and scruch up an extra chance or two it increase the odds from 50% to 52% (I didnt think those hands were really taht important), but also some clever hands where you needed to figure out the shape and visualize certain possibilities.
   
   Overall the book is a B-. Could be better, but still had some good hands.
   If you are not Advanced you might not get so much out of it, though its still worth reading.

No comments about Rise and Fly: Tall Tales and Mostly True Rules of Bid Whist.

No comments about Focus on Defence.

No comments about Understanding Slam Bidding (Master Bridge Series).

2 comments about Win the Bermuda Bowl With Me.

1. Jeff Meckstroth and Eric Rodwell are considered by many to be the best bridge partnership in the world. They use a highly specialized version of Precision for their bidding. So, one might expect a book by one of them to be high level and complex. On the contrary, Meckstroth has produced a book that contains example after example of common decisions that club and tournament players face all the time. He continually points out why he makes the decisions he does, as well as showing how he finds those extra chances that help make him one of the best dummy players in the world. The 4S hand from match 7 was a revelation to me in how simple the correct line is, but was something I would never have come up with.



2. The hands were not killers, just typical hands that any abover average player can handle. The pros can handle the pressure, and make fewer mistakes. But many of the hands they encounter are not the killers found in some of the hard Test Your declarer Play type books.
   
   Good hands, and fun to read. Good job, 2 thumbs up.

No comments about On Bidding.

No comments about The Rabbi's Magic Trick: More Kosher Bridge (Master Bridge Series).

No comments about Understanding the Contested Auction (Master Bridge Series).