Bridge: All You Need to Play the Game (Collins Need To Know) - Softcover

Robson, Andrew

 
9780007234028: Bridge: All You Need to Play the Game (Collins Need To Know)

Synopsis

This one-stop practical guide will show you how to play and master the fascinating and rewarding game of Bridge. To make your progress easier, it comes in a handy two-colour format with expert advice throughout from Andrew Robson, the world’s most famous and successful player and teacher of Bridge.

Andrew Robson, the Times bridge correspondent, shows you how to play bridge – starting from the basics and taking you through the learning process step-by-step. Using clear illustrations and accompanying text, Andrew gives the reader a complete course in learning the game, including sample hands and ways to practice.

You’ll also learn about bidding, tricks, scoring and dealing, and etiquette whilst playing. Above all you’ll begin to develop the skills you need to play bridge, and win – including ingenuity, working well in a partnership, and a good memory.

Contents include: basic bidding and card-play strategies; etiquette and how to score; examples and practice tips; different types of bridge; conventions; evaluating a bridge hand.

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About the Author

Andrew Robson is widely regarded as Britain’s number one bridge player-teacher. He has won countless international bridge events beginning in 1989 with the World Junior Championships and including, in 1991, the European Championships.

Andrew runs a highly successful bridge club in south-west London, with some 2000 members, which he started ten years ago.

He is perhaps best known as the Times Bridge Correspondent. His recent book (based on his Times columns) “The Times Bridge: Common Mistakes and How to Avoid them” has been extremely well recieved.
“If you want to be better, buy this book”, Spectator Sept. 2005.

From the Back Cover

All you need to play the game

Thinking about learning bridge but don’t know the basics? Want to be able to play a social game? Collins need to know? Bridge starts from scratch to teach you how to play and enjoy the ever popular game of bridge.

Includes:
• Basic bidding and card-play strategies
• Etiquette and how to score
• Many examples, and tips on how to practice

Andrew Robson, former World and European Champion, is Britain’s leading bridge player-teacher-writer. He is also The Times Bridge Correspondent, and author of The Times Bridge: common mistakes and how to avoid them.

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