Bridge Endplays for Everyone: Yes, Even You!
Bridge Endplays for Everyone: Yes, Even You!
David Bird
Master Point Press
331 Douglas Avenue, Toronto, ON, Canada, M5M 1H2
9781897106365, $19.95 www.masterpointpress.com
Bridge Endplays for Everyone: Yes, Even You! is a bridge guide
intended for intermediate to advanced players. Though the endplay end·play
n.
A play in bridge that forces an opponent to lead and results in the opponents' losing one or more tricks that they would have won had they not been leading.
tr.v. of a
bridge game can be extraordinarily complex, its basic principles are
much more straightforward; Bridge Endplays for Everyone covers different
types of elimination play (such as loser-on-loser or partial elimination
play), aspects of the trump (such as the trump coup - This article concerns Contract Bridge and uses terminology associated with the game. See Contract bridge glossary for an explanation of unfamiliar words or phrases.
The trump coup , trump elopement Elopement
Carker, James
with Dombey’s wife. [Br. Lit.: Dombey and Son]
Leonora
with Alvaro, rejected as suitor by her father. [Ital. , or
trump endplay), the throw-in, the strip squeeze - This article concerns Contract Bridge and uses terminology associated with the game. See Contract bridge glossary for an explanation of unfamiliar words or phrases.
A strip squeeze , and much more. Author
David Bird, well-known for his "St. Titus Abbey abbey, monastic house, especially among Benedictines and Cistercians, consisting of not less than 12 monks or nuns ruled by an abbot or abbess. Many abbeys were originally self-supporting. In the Benedictine expansion after the 8th cent. " stories that
appear regularly in bridge magazines worldwide, walks the reader through
the workings of bridge endplays in a conversational, easy-to-follow
style. A "must-have" for any bridge devotee seeking to improve
their game!
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