Why You Lose at Bridge

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Summary: The Best Advice on Becoming a Better Partner
Review: S. J. Simon's Why You Lose at Bridge remains (since its original 1945 publication) the best text on improving one's partnership available anywhere at any price. Read it. Practice what you learned. Watch your partnerships improve. Read it, again ...

If you have a standing partnership, read it together. Even the most capable professionals may well (re)discover ways to improve their game as they absorb Simon's words of wisdom. Improve your partnership, and your game improves. Simon sez ...

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Summary: One of the great classics on the game. Still valid.
Review: Skid Simon writes about club bridge, and how to deal with various partners.

We kibitz a rubber among Mrs. Guggenheim, The Unlucky Expert, Mr. Smug, and Futile Willy. A loong rubber.

A reasonable player in any of the seats would have won the rubber for his side. Bidding is British style, but what the heck...

The truth of the book is eternal, and the style sparkles with humor.

The essence: play for the best result possible with this partner, not the best possible result.

Rating:
Summary: One of the great classics on the game. Still valid.
Review: Skid Simon writes about club bridge, and how to deal with various partners.

We kibitz a rubber among Mrs. Guggenheim, The Unlucky Expert, Mr. Smug, and Futile Willy. A loong rubber.

A reasonable player in any of the seats would have won the rubber for his side. Bidding is British style, but what the heck...

The truth of the book is eternal, and the style sparkles with humor.

The essence: play for the best result possible with this partner, not the best possible result.