Bridge: The Magic of Defense

Barbara Seagram, Caroline Sydnor

• Publisher: Baron Barclay Bridge
• eBook ISBN:
  9781944201418
• Year: 2023

This easy guide to defense, both fun and memorable, will take a newer player quickly up to an intermediate level and an intermediate player to an advanced intermediate level, if not beyond, with all of the tools needed to progress even further. The mix of ideas presented in the chapters and then reinforced with such a perfect selection of hands, with gentle repetition of the most important factors, will be a tremendous learning aid for the ambitions player.

Table of contents

• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• Signaling and Carding Agreements
• Opening Leads
• More about the Rule of 40
• Third Hand Play
• Cooperation In Defense
• Unblocking Partner’s Suit
• More About the Rule of 11
• When Not to Lead Partner’s Suit
• The Ruffing Game
• Signaling Attitude
• Discards
• The Count Signal
• The Suit Preference Signal
• Second Hand Play
• Counting Tricks
• Lead-Directing Doubles