This book focuses on mastering threat cards and understanding squeeze play in bridge. Readers will learn to visualize card layouts for successful squeezes, integrating them into their gameplay. Authored by Dr. Julian Laderman, a distinguished bridge educator, it has received accolades from the American Bridge Teachers Association.
This book guides advancing bridge players in selecting the right cardplay technique for various hands, focusing on recognizing key features. With carefully chosen examples, it enhances understanding of strategies like finesses and eliminations. Dr. Julian Laderman, a math professor and bridge columnist, authored this insightful resource.
Tracing the development of the game of bridge and the fascinating characters who have played it from whist through to auction bridge and eventually contract bridge, the author reveals the missing link, and demonstrates how the world's most popular card game came into being.
What is Bumblepuppy Bridge? Bumblepuppy Bridge is a wonderful stepping-stone to standard bridge. A total beginner can learn in an hour how to play the game -- without any help from a bridge player. This novel game was created by award-winning bridge author and historian Julian Laderman, by blending simple features from several early forms of bridge. The game is appropriate for ages 6 to 106. A free video enables readers to watch the examples in the book being played. This book is an essential gift for your non-bridge playing friends. This may be your last chance to save them from living their entire life without bridge. Haven't they suffered long enough? Warning: Anyone who has played more than three hands of bridge in the last decade is far too advanced for this book.
If your answer is YES to the following three questions, this is the PERFECT book for you: 1. Have you read A Bridge to Simple Squeezes? 2. Did you see merit in the structured approach introduced in that book for executing simple squeezes? 3. Do you feel that in spite of your great effort you are still not finding squeezes? In this book, Still Not Finding Squeezes?, the structured approach is applied to the 39 squeeze examples that David Bird and Tim Bourke created for their book, Test Your Bridge Technique: The Simple Squeeze. These examples will give you the experience you need to include squeezes in your arsenal.