A Swiss Teams Challenge - Softcover

Kumar, Rakesh K

 
9781771402507: A Swiss Teams Challenge
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1771402504 ISBN 13: 9781771402507
Publisher: Master Point Press, 2022

Synopsis

In this book, you are in the hot seat for a two-day Swiss Teams tournament, consisting of 8 rounds of 7 board matches each day. Your first goal is to finish in the top half of the field at the end of day one, so that you qualify to the final on day two. After that, you don't have unrealistic ambitions, but would really like to play well enough to achieve a top ten finish. Can you manage that?


Of course, you will face many more decisions per match than you would in a typical tournament - indeed, you have to make a decision on every board. The hands are presented in quiz format, followed by a discussion of the various considerations that are relevant to doing well in team games. Some of these include:

  • agreements about pre-emptive bidding
  • pushing for game
  • bidding to the right slam
  • playing to avoid trouble
  • looking for the setting trick


The great majority of the problems come from real tournament play and are almost equally distributed between constructive bidding, competitive bidding, declarer play and defense. 

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About the Author

Rakesh K Kumar (Mittagong, Australia) has been playing tournaments since the early 1980s and, for over 20 years, has also been writing about them for the New South Wales Bridge Association (based in Sydney). His most recent book for Master Point Press was Swing Deals.

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Publisher
Master Point Press
Publication date
2022
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1771402504
ISBN 13 
9781771402507
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
222