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This book is excellent for the still- improving relatively new duplicate bridge player. It goes beyond the opening bid and discusses the following bids as well as giving you all of the bids on pre-dealt hands. I highly recommend it to anyone wishing to improve his/her game.
Bridge is a difficult card game to learn. I have books 1 & 2 and both are written in a very inderstandable way in a step by step format. There are also many examples that aid in comperhension.
The field of bridge is full of wise old savants and we should listen to them and read their work. The best bridge books struggle to impart wisdom, or perhaps better said informed judgment, instead of limiting themselves to "the rules," and this one is very good for that. I wish there were more up-to-date books like this. Her BRIDGE BASICS 1, pre-requisite for this book, is good and sound -- and believe it or not, she spends a fair amount of time on telling people when NOT to bid. Grant will put her BRIDGE BASICS series into an omnibus volume. Newbies have to know that. But if anyone is entitled to carry the bridge banner into the 21st Century, it must be Audrey Grant. I can heartily recommend BRIDGE BASICS 2: to anyone who loves to play bridge, whether the at-home type or the duplicate club type.
And in this one, BRIDGE BASICS 2: COMPETITIVE BIDDING, Grant still teaches us kindly when not to bid. Under her system you might indeed miss a part-score once in a while; but once you've got a good hand and some rapport with partner -- or are in a position to torment you opponents -- this is a full-speed-ahead, friendly and very informative bridge book. Perhaps in the not-too-distant future Ms.
I learned a lot from this book; there is much information to be studied and digested. It is especially helpful for those who have been away from playing duplicate for a while. The title of the book, Competitive Bidding, says it all.
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