Rating: Summary: How high to bid in competitive auctions Review: Required reading for any good player. This book will help you to decide how high to bid in competitive auctions. This 1992 Bridge Book of the Year is the best-selling bridge book of the 1990's.
Rating: Summary: A Modern Classic Review: The law of total tricks has been around for about 40 years, but it's never been as thoroughly and completely explained as in this book. Cohen shows how the law should be used to resolve your competitive bidding decisions and to make the opponents' life more difficult. He also shows how modern bidding, and how the conventions he developed with Marty Bergen, try to give your partnership the information you need to make total trick decisions. Simply the best book on the subject.
Rating: Summary: Probably the most meaningful bridge book I have ever read Review: This book has improved my level of bidding judgement enormously. I have heard players quoting the "law" all the time at tournaments, now I see why.
Rating: Summary: fabulous Review: This book improved my game very quickly. Simple bidding rules with a very logical and mathematical analysis of the reasons behind them. So much easier to get top boards when you know whether to compete or double or pass. Thanks Larry.
Rating: Summary: Famous & passionate exposé of the Law of Total Tricks !! Review: This excellent bridge book has the fine reputation that it does because it is so thorough and detailed an explanation of the Law of Total Tricks. Larry Cohen is the most passionate supporter of this law in the game; and he does a complete job explaining it, illustrating it with interesting example hands, and summarizing with useful maxims that tend to stick with you after the reading is over. Especially good is his compelling discussion of whether to rebid when the bidding goes 1H-1S-2H-2S-? or even 1H-1S-2H-2S-3H-?. He also makes some good points about bidding at the higher levels with a known long fit.
This is one of the few books we believe should be in every serious player's library; yet it is basic enough and entertaining enough to benefit relative beginners and more expert players alike. No wonder it is an award winning book on bridge!
Rating: Summary: Winning Bridge Decisions Review: This is an essential book for any serious player. The only concern is that the intermediate player may come to believe that this is a substitute for judgement. Still this should improve the competitive bidding decisions for any player who is somehow not familiar with "The Law".Those interested in a somewhat different valuation style should look into losing trick count originally popularized in Britain which has been around for some time.
Rating: Summary: Winning Bridge Decisions Review: This is an essential book for any serious player. The only concern is that the intermediate player may come to believe that this is a substitute for judgement. Still this should improve the competitive bidding decisions for any player who is somehow not familiar with "The Law". Those interested in a somewhat different valuation style should look into losing trick count originally popularized in Britain which has been around for some time.
Rating: Summary: Complete explanation of the Law of Total Tricks Review: This is the best-selling bridge book of the 1990's. It starts at the very beginning and explains what the Law of Total Tricks is, and how to use it while bidding a bridge hand.
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