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Greatest Matches Close Encounters Book 1 : 1964-2001 Eric Kokish & Mark Horton 150

Close Encounters Book 2 : 2003-2017 Eric Kokish & Mark Horton 150

Bidding More Accurate Bidding Marshall Miles 80

Overcalling Opponents 1NT Ken Rexford 90

Card Play Trick One David Bird 140

Off-Road Declarer Play David Bird 140

Defensive Signaling at Bridge David Bird 140

Humor Last Call In The Menagerie Victor Mollo 140

The Principle of Restricted Talent Danny Kleinman and Nick Straguzzi 130

The Canterbury Bridge Tales David Silver & Tim Bourke 120

Miscellaneous Master of Bridge Psychology Jeppe Juhl with Peter Fredin 150

Human Bridge Errors Danny Kleinman and Nick Straguzzi 140

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Close Encounters Book 1 : 1964-2001 (http://tiny.cc/jp2i7y) by Eric Kokish & Mark Horton

Price: $150 !Close Encounters Book 2 : 2003-2017 (http://tiny.cc/mw2i7y)!

by Eric Kokish & Mark Horton Price: $150

Close Encounters is a two-book series that describes some of the most memorable bridge matches of the last fifty years. It features titanic struggles for World and National titles, involving the greatest players from North America and Europe. There are amazing comebacks, down to the wire finishes, overtime victories, and an insight into how the game has changed over the last half century. Book 1 starts with Italy's asserting its supremacy over Great Britain in 1964, and ends with Germany's dramatic Venice Cup win over France in Paris, in 2001.

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Book 2 starts with Italy’s losing a world title in bizarre fashion on the final board, and ends with the USA’s nail-biting 2-IMP victory over France in Lyon in 2017.

More Accurate Bidding (http://tiny.cc/kx2i7y) by Marshall Miles

Price: $80

This is not a book for beginners, and will not bore you with rehashing things you already know. Some of the topics are somewhat controversial, and as always Marshall Miles urges his own, often original, point of view. You may not be persuaded by everything he recommends, but perhaps you will adopt part of it, and it won't hurt you to discover how some other people play, even if you refuse to play that way yourself. Here are some of the topics discussed: Game invitations after a raise of opener's major Fast arrival and picture bids When the opponents double a transfer or Stayman Mini splinters Mini Roman 2♦



The Kaplan Interchange Rubens advances of overcalls Ways to show two-suiters The Wolff signoff Inverted minors Playing in the opponents' suit Balancing As he often does, Miles ends this book with an 'It's Your Call' bidding quiz, with detailed discussion of options and the rationale for his own choices.

Overcalling Opponent’s 1NT (http://tiny.cc/by2i7y) by Ken Rexford

Price: $90

Author Ken Rexford has developed an intriguing new approach to overcalling 1NT openings that may revolutionize this area of bridge. If you are unhappy with Cappelletti, DONT, Brozel, and the like, this book introduces you to a new approach for tackling the opponent's 1NT opening, with an entirely new way to handle one or two-suited hands. Can your current approach tell partner whether you have a strong or a weak overcall at the two-level? Can you tell partner which suit of your major-and-a-minor is longer? Can you identify the specific minor with your major, again at the two-level? All of these are possible using Ken Rexford's methods. Imagine describing more hands than the Woolsey defense handles, all with easy but novel methods that fit (unlike Woolsey) into the ACBL's General Convention Chart! You can also use these methods to improve your response structure to your own openings and in other auctions. For example, after a Four Diamond overcall of partner's Two Clubs opening, you can bid any new suit as a natural one-suiter, use double as cooperative, and yet still have the room needed to describe any specific two-suiter, without bypassing the game level. Impossible? Not with this new technique. Can you show one or both minors and slam interest after a 2NT opening, and tell partner which specific minor you have, at the three-level? Yes, using Rexford's methods.



Trick One (http://tiny.cc/fz2i7y) by David Bird

Price: $140 A huge percentage of failing contracts go down because declarer did not play optimally on the first trick. Similarly, countless contracts are allowed to slip through because the defender in third seat made the wrong play. With 125 instructive deals, David Bird covers all aspects of the first card played from dummy, the first move by the defender in third seat and the card chosen by declarer from his hand. Parts I and II contain chapters on declarer play — with topics such as Avoidance Play, Winning in the Right Hand, Blocking the Defenders’ Suit, Setting up a Squeeze, Deceptive Play and Setting up an Endplay — and defense — with topics including Unblocking, Managing Defensive Entries, Deception, Signaling and Disrupting Declarer’s Plan. Parts III and IV contain 44 problems, with each solution triggered by a necessary play at trick one. Perfect your cardplay at trick one and you will be difficult to beat!



Off-Road Declarer Play (http://tiny.cc/w02i7y) by David Bird

Price: $140

Every intermediate player is familiar with the routine techniques of dummy play. What this book describes are less well-known stratagems that may save the day in non-routine situations. They include methods for creating entries, surviving bad trump breaks, elopements, getting the defenders to help you out, and many more. In this unique and quirky book, the author introduces to the reader to new ways of thinking about declarer play, ways that just might help him make that next contract!



Defensive Signalling at Bridge

by David Bird Price: $140 The author begins this thorough discussion of a neglected but vital topic by examining the real purpose of defensive signalling, and the basic kinds of signals that are available. He goes on to recommend a comprehensive set of signalling agreements, and analyzes more complex situations in the light of these agreements. Most of the chapters are followed by a quiz, and the answer to each signalling problem includes a full 52-card diagram to demonstrate the effectiveness of the recommended signal. The book finishes with a chapter that looks at the signalling methods of eight world-class pairs, with examples of their methods in action. A book any player who is looking to improve will want to read.



Last Call in the Menagerie (http://tiny.cc/y12i7y)

by Victor Mollo Price: $140 Just about every bridge player over forty has read Victor Mollo’s Bridge in the Menagerie, a book that is on any list of the all-time top ten on the game. Towards the end of his life, Mollo continued to write stories about the same well-loved characters (the Hideous Hog, the Rueful Rabbit, Oscar the Owl, and the rest), but they appeared in various magazines around the world, and if you weren’t a subscriber, you didn’t get to read them. This is the final MPP anthology of these lost Menagerie gems, collected for the first time in book form (following The Hog Takes to Precision, Diamonds are the Hog’s Best Friend and Swings and Arrows). Victor Mollo is everyone’s favorite bridge humorist, and a genuinely new book from him will be greeted as something to be treasured. Illustrations by bridge cartoonist Bill Buttle add to the fun.



The Principle of Restricted Talent (http://tiny.cc/a22i7y)

by Danny Kleinman and Nick Straguzzi Price: $130 An anthology of humorous stories featuring Chthonic, the bridge-playing robot. The stories draw unmercifully funny portraits of human bridge players, as Chthonic's bridge brilliance and abrasive and ill-concealed contempt for his human creators leave them all in his wake. A particular target is the pompous Director of the Cybernetics Research Institute, whose opinion of his own bridge expertise differs greatly from that of his protégé. Some of these stories have appeared in The Bridge World magazine, where the characters are established as firm reader favourites.



Canterbury Bridge Tales (http://tiny.cc/122i7y)

by David Silver & Tim Bourke Price: $120 A disparate group of travellers meets by chance at a motel while on the way to the Nationals in Canterbury, Florida, and naturally they begin swapping stories. Sound familiar? Professor Silver returns in a new collection of short stories, in which literary parody is interwoven with Tim Bourke’s brilliant bridge hands. Murder, mystery, sex and the supernatural – and that’s just in the first three tales.



Master of Bridge Psychology (http://tiny.cc/r32i7y)

by Jeppe Juhl with Peter Fredin Price: $150 This may be the funniest bridge biography you will ever read. Peter Fredin of Sweden won the 2009 European Pairs championship, and is a multiple medalist in events at the world level. His style and approach to bridge owe more to psychology than to the mathematics of the game, something that often lands him in unusual situations at the table. Being one of the world’s best card players, he can generally find a way to extricate himself. Danish journalist Jeppe Juhl, a close personal friend of Fredin, has collected some of Fredin’s best and worst moments into a book that offers superlative entertainment for any bridge player.



Human Bridge Errors (http://tiny.cc/b42i7y)

by Danny Kleinman and Nick Straguzzi Price: $140 Chthonic, the irascible bridge-playing computer, is back! This time, he's attempting to teach humans a little about the game of bridge — not in order to turn them into competent players, as he knows that is impossible. But he thinks he may be able to get the reader to the point where his cell phone won't laugh at him behind his back every time he plays a card (it does, you know). Each chapter of this wickedly funny book highlights a different 'human bridge error', and points out why and how it should be avoided.



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