A Taste of Bridge

Description

Jeff Bayone's Honors Bridge Club in New York is the largest in North America, perhaps in the world. This book is based on their beginners' course, a series of six lessons that have started thousands of people on the road to enjoying the world's most popular card game. The book is intended to give the reader a taste of bridge, and whet the appetite for more. Contents......Page 6 Chapter 1: Getting Started......Page 8 Chapter 2: Setting Up......Page 10 Chapter 3: Taking Tricks with High Cards......Page 14 Chapter 4: Length Takes Tricks......Page 28 Chapter 5: Hands On: Playing Bridge......Page 36 Chapter 6: Opening Leads......Page 44 Chapter 7: Getting to Carnegie Hall — Practice, Practice, Practice......Page 50 Chapter 8: Finesses Win Tricks......Page 60 Chapter 9: Practice, Practice......Page 74 Chapter 10: Something Entirely New — Trumps!......Page 80 Chapter 11: Exercises in Trump Management......Page 88 Chapter 12: Play and Defense with Trumps......Page 94 Chapter 13: Playing Hands in a Trump Suit......Page 98 Chapter 14: The Auction......Page 102 Chapter 15: Evaluating Bridge Hands: The Point-count System......Page 114 Chapter 16: Understanding the Point-count System......Page 120 Chapter 17: Notrump Bidding......Page 124 Chapter 18: Notrump Bidding and Scoring......Page 128 Chapter 19: Practice in Bidding and Playing the Hand......Page 136 Chapter 20: The Point-count System and Length......Page 140 Chapter 21: Hands to Play......Page 146 Chapter 22: Major- and Minor-suit Scoring......Page 156 Chapter 23: Major-suit Bidding......Page 160 Chapter 24: More Major-suit Bidding......Page 168 Chapter 25: Look Out for Shorty......Page 174 Chapter 26: Hands on Play......Page 182 Chapter 27: How Cards Work in Defense......Page 192 Chapter 28: In Closing......Page 198 AFTERWORD......Page 216