3 comments about All Fifty-Two Cards: How to Reconstruct the Concealed Hands at the Bridge Table (Enlarged Edition).

1. One of the all-time best books. How to "see" the opponents' hands.



2. One would think that with only 52 cards divided four ways, a round of descriptive bidding and familiarity with the game itself, one could easily construct the hand on a partner or opponent. Yet how many times have you lost that finesse, or guessed wrong and got trumped or lost a game because trumps split 4-1 vs 3-2? This book lets you catch things like this and nip them in the bud. Very good read with lots of illustrations and examples.



3. Of the 9 books I've read on Deduction/Counting this is the one I liked least. Its not terrible, but the others are much better. Maybe this was considered a good book on the subject 40+ years ago, but there are not much better books.
   
   Its probably Intermediate plus/advanced, and not for Intermedaites or below.
   The bidding is outdated in a number of hands, and I don't think all the inferences are that solid.
   
   
   Start with Mike Lawrences "How to Read Your Opponents Cards"
   Then read "Countdown to Winning Bridge" by Tim Bourke
   
   I think these books lay a better foundation
   I also liked:
   
   Card Placing for You - Kambites
   Card Reading - Eric Jannersten
   Better Bridge for the Advancing Player - Frank Stewart
   Dormer on Deduction - Al Dormer
   
   
   All 52 cards is a fair book, with a wide variety of problems. I just think the instruction is not as good as in some of the others.

No comments about The new Hoyle;: Standard games including all modern card games, new laws of contract bridge and new scoring rules, chess, checkers, backgammon, camelot, ping pong, bowling, billards, pool, etc.,.

1 comments about Positive Declarer Play at Bridge (Positive Bridge Play).

1. Some good & tricky problems. Also a number of non simple squeezes that few will get, as well as some that I just thought weren't that good.
   
   Intermediates will have trouble with tese problems. You can learn a little, but I think there are much better books for intermediates.
   
   The book is average, its not bad. I just don't think its especially good.

No comments about A New Approach to Bidding: Complete Hand Valuation (Cv) and the Midmac Bidding System (Batsford Bridge).

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