Take All Your Chances at Bridge
Title | Take All Your Chances at Bridge PDF eBook |
Author | Eddie Kantar |
Publisher | Master Point Press |
Total Pages | 172 |
Release | 2009 |
Genre | Games & Activities |
ISBN | 9781897106556 |
Selecting the best line of play in a bridge hand as declarer is not easy. In this book of novice to intermediate bridge problems, Eddie Kantar shows the reader how to do this - there is always a line of play that will allow you to take all your chances, and bring home your contract.
Take All Your Chances at Bridge 2
Title | Take All Your Chances at Bridge 2 PDF eBook |
Author | Eddie Kantar |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 155 |
Release | 2011 |
Genre | Bridge whist |
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Kantar presents another collection of play problems for advancing players. Again, the theme is not just finding a good line of play: the trick is to combine as many possible lines as possible to optimize your chances of making the contract. Full of Kantar's inimitable humour and extra tips, as well as lots of good bridge, this one is another sure winner.
Take All Your Chances
Title | Take All Your Chances PDF eBook |
Author | Edwin B. Kantar |
Publisher | Master Point Press |
Total Pages | 164 |
Release | 2011-07-15 |
Genre | Games & Activities |
ISBN | 9781897106709 |
Kantar presents another collection of play problems for advancing players. Again, the theme is not just finding a good line of play: the trick is to combine as many possible lines as possible to optimize your chances of making the contract. Full of Kantar's inimitable humour and extra tips, as well as lots of good bridge, this one is another sure winner.
Take All Your Chances at Bridge
Title | Take All Your Chances at Bridge PDF eBook |
Author | Edwin B. Kantar |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 0 |
Release | 2009 |
Genre | Contract bridge |
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The Complete Book of Bridge Hands
Title | The Complete Book of Bridge Hands PDF eBook |
Author | Ken Casey |
Publisher | Xlibris Corporation |
Total Pages | 691 |
Release | 2019-06-19 |
Genre | Games & Activities |
ISBN | 1796033545 |
This book is meant to be a comprehensive book on all the various types of bridge hands. Each type of hand is categorized in a separate chapter. Volume 1 contains a partial compilation of my three books on tournament bridge. These three books are Tournament Bridge for Beginning Players, Tournament Bridge for Intermediate Players, and Tournament Bridge for Advanced Players. All three of these books were revised in 2018. Volume 2 contains a partial compilation of my two books on playing notrump hands and on playing defense. These two books are entitled Playing the Notrump Hand in Bridge and Tips on Bridge Defense. Both of these books were also revised in 2018.
Beginning Bridge
Title | Beginning Bridge PDF eBook |
Author | Ken Casey |
Publisher | Xlibris Corporation |
Total Pages | 638 |
Release | 2023-02-12 |
Genre | Games & Activities |
ISBN | 166986586X |
This book gives a comprehensive view of the various types of hands a beginning player might expect to encounter in a tournament. The various categories of hands presented will teach you how to play the first card, how to ruff, how to set up a long suit, how to avoid the danger hand, how to avoid being ruffed, how to play for the drop, how to get a count on the hand and how to handle special card combinations. In addition, you will learn about finessing up to a lone honor, the ruffing finesse, the backward finesse and other finessing techniques.
Tournament Bridge for Intermediate Players
Title | Tournament Bridge for Intermediate Players PDF eBook |
Author | Ken Casey |
Publisher | Xlibris Corporation |
Total Pages | 678 |
Release | 2021-06-24 |
Genre | Games & Activities |
ISBN | 1664177280 |
This book is designed to give a comprehensive and systematic view of the types of hands an intermediate player might expect to encounter in a tournament. The various categories of hands presented will teach you when to use the dummy reversal, when to spurn a finesse, when to duck a trick, when to do the avoidance play and how to handle a defender’s singleton. The book will also teach you how to discard, how to unblock, how to deceive and how to handle transportation problems. Ken has published more than 15 bridge books. These books have now been consolidated into a series of 5 core tournament books as follows: Tournament Bridge for Beginning Players (4th ed. 2020), Tournament Bridge for Intermediate Players (5th ed. 2021), Tournament Bridge for Advanced Players (4th ed. 2021), Tournament Bridge for Notrump Contracts (4th ed. 2020) and Tournament Bridge Tips on Defense (4th ed. 2020). These 5 core books have themselves been condensed into a two-volume set called The Complete Book of Bridge Hands, Volumes 1 and 2 (2nd ed. 2019). In addition, Ken has published two books on bidding, The Casey 2/1 Bridge Bidding System (4th ed. 2021) and The Casey Simplified Precision Club Bridge Bidding System (2nd ed. 2021). Ken served as a Russian interpreter during the Vietnam War and then spent over 30 years practicing as a tax attorney. Ken also has an MBA in accounting and a CPA.