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A broad and comprehensive book that will turn a lot of not so accurate bidders into players... -- Mike Lawrence: World Champion and successful bridge author Max incorporates recent bridge bidding into the top system of the past 25 years... -- World Champion John Swanson The five card major reference book for the foreseeable future. -- Eddie Kantar: World Champion and successful bridge author
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Product details
Paperback: 296 pages
Publisher: Vivisphere Pub (October 9, 2000)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1587760495
ISBN-13: 978-1587760495
Product Dimensions:
6.8 x 0.8 x 9.8 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review:
4.4 out of 5 stars
51 customer reviews
Amazon Best Sellers Rank:
#151,826 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
First published in 2000, this book is designed for bridge players who either want to advance from the Standard American bidding structure to 2/1, or who play 2/1 but want to improve their bidding results. Hardy starts out by discussing how to evaluate hands, focusing on how the location of honors and the "shape" of one's hand affects its quality.He moves forward with how being in 1st, 2nd, 3rd or 4th seat affects the decision of whether (and with what suit) to open, the importance of planning the re-bid before opening, how to handle hands that aren't "perfect", what kinds of bids are forcing, when to "reverse", and other situations. Hardy doesn't get to 2/1 responses until Chapter 4. This makes his book especially valuable in learning how and when to move forward following a bid from responder.He then moves forward to various bidding situations including the all-important forcing 1NT, jumps, splinters, invitations, cue, and other options. Common bidding conventions are presented. We read how to continue when the opponents intrude with bids of their own, and when to make pre-emptive bids. Hardy also deals with intruding with bids of our own when the oopponents have opened the bidding. The book covers 1NT opening bids and continuations. Slam bidding and basic slam conventions are covered.Every chapter has a summary of major points, and thorough examples are presented and discussed. The quizes are invaluable for learning whether one has understood the topics.I recommend careful study of the book, with liberal use of notations, highlighting, and reminders throughout.The book should be studied carefully by every intermediate player who wants to improve his/her bidding, and kept as a reference for refreshing what should be common bidding understandings. Max Hardy's bidding approach is closely aligned with that of Marty Bergen in which hand "shape" is critical in trick-taking ability. This approach is in contrast to that of Mike Lawrence (another early 2/1 proponent), who is more "value" oriented. Furthermore, bidding "science" is a moving target that has advanced since this book was published. Nevertheless, I recommend careful study of the book, with liberal use of notations, highlighting, and reminders throughout. Unfortunately for the player, it eventually will be time to move on to Hardy's more advanced book, which treats the same topics but in a more advanced and subtle way. Thus, the book is but a stepping stone along one's bridge bidding path rather than a destination.
I found this to be an excellent book for me, an intermediate player using the Standard American approach to bidding.The style of writing is very clear with lots of examples. The style of writing is interesting and not at all dry.Although I have not finished reading it, I have picked up quite a few valuable tips which has helped to refine my bidding. Quite a few grey areas in my bidding have been hilighted and explained. This has helped me improve my game and get me extra points. The most notable example of this which I have read so far is how to determine whether to open 1 of a major vs. opening 1 NT when you are dealt a five-card major, have a balanced hand and 15 to 17 points.I am looking forward to picking up some more good tips which I can share with my partner as I read further.A very worthwhile and interesting book to own which should be on every up-and-coming bridge player's bookshelf.
What this book is NOT meant for: Not meant for a complete beginner -- this is not a "Learn how to play bridge" book. This book presupposes the knowledge of terms that belong to someone that has already learned at least enough bridge to sit at a table and play (although not necessarily very well). This is a book that is more geared towards teaching someone that already knows something about bridge (and bidding in particular), and gives him/her a self-contained, complete description of the current "standard". I place standard in quotes because I consider his referring to the 2/1 system as "standard" not yet totally accurate (though perhaps before long it will be). Nowadays, at most clubs in the US, you will see a significant percentage of players, even experts, that hold to older standards.Beyond teaching the 2/1 system, this book goes further into refining your bidding judgement. All too often we've all found ourselves saying "Hey we have 25 (or 26) points, we need to be in game! Damn why did I go down?" Or "Hey, we have only 21 points, but we made slam!", and lament that you were (un)lucky at how well/poorly the hands fit. This book does an excellent job at improving your judgement and hand valuation skills, to actually be able to anticipate when the hands do fit well, and therefore should be bid more aggressively, and when they do not well, and therefore should be treated skeptically. Also this book introduces splinters and other bidding techniques to help discover (mis)fits and further aid your judgement.Another important point of bidding all-too-often neglected is the need for planning your rebids. Many books pretend that no matter what you bid, you will never have a problem the next time your turn arises. In reality, sometimes you need to make a counter-intuitive bid to facilitate rebidding. Also sometimes you flat out have no good call, and this book gives you advice on how to make the best of such situations. My only complaint is the strange numbering scheme used -- not worth docking a full star for, but somehow I think I ought to be able to give this book 4.5 stars for it.
This book is often recommended as a standard for the 2/1 GF system. While its treatment of that specific subject is not the best, it's a great book for bidding. There are good treatments of how to think about the value of your hand beyond points, opening in 3rd/4th seat and good coverage of standard conventions like NMF and 4SF.Some of the organization is questionable, and you probably want to read up some other source on actual 2/1 sequences elsewhere, but as a whole, the book is definitely worth reading.
Clarification and explanation of new practices and conventions as well as the reason why they changed.
Very god condition.
Very thorough and comprehensive overview of 2/1
I, Lucille P., play Bridge several times per week -- including both Duplicate and "Party" Bridge. This book has improved my game, esp in Duplicate. While it is pretty "basic" in content, it has become a good reference for me.
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