The Times Beginner's Guide to Bridge: All you need to play the game (The Times Puzzle Books)

Description

A one-stop practical guide on how to play and master the fascinating and rewarding game of bridge with expert advice throughout from Andrew Robson, the Times bridge correspondent, the world's most famous and successful player and teacher of bridge. Previously published as Collins Need to Know? Bridge. Now with additional practice deals. Andrew Robson, the Times bridge correspondent, shows you how to play bridge - starting from the basics and taking you through the learning process step-by-step. Using clear illustrations and accompanying text, Andrew gives the reader a complete course in learning the game, including sample hands and ways to practice. You'll also learn about bidding, tricks, scoring and dealing, and etiquette whilst playing. Above all you'll begin to develop the skills you need to play bridge, and win - including ingenuity, working well in a partnership, and a good memory. Contents include: basic bidding and card-play strategies; etiquette and how to score; examples and practice tips; different types of bridge; conventions; evaluating a bridge hand.

Andrew Robson is Britain's foremost bridge player-teacher-writer. Indeed, he has radically altered the way many people view the game. Through his famous Bridge Club in Southwest London that he started from scratch in 1995, the many seminars he teaches around the country, and his daily column in The Times, Andrew's clear yet relaxed style has inspired tens of thousands of bridge lovers. Also rated one of the world's best players, Andrew has had countless tournament successes over the past twenty years. He is a former World Junior and European Champion, the first Englishman to win a US Major, and current World Individual Silver Medallist. The Times is a British daily national newspaper, first published in London in 1785. A daily cryptic crossword is published in the main newspaper, and the Mind Games section in the Times2 supplement contains sudoku, Killer Sudoku, KenKen, word polygon puzzles, and a quick crossword.

"No one else has the capacity to explain Bridge more clearly than Andrew." Omar Sharif "If you want to be better, buy the book." The Spectator