By David Huggett
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First tagged by Ksarul "Ksarul"
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Review & Description
I teach classes ranging from complete beginners to improvers, but over the years I have noticed that the problems that beset one group are mirrored in another. For example, the number of points one needs for the multitude of no-trump bids that abound is a constant worry to most, as is the tiresome decision as to whether to draw trumps or not and what signal should be given in a particular situation.
And so it began to dawn on me that if I could quantify the most common problems in bidding, play and defence and try to provide an easy way of making obscurity less obscure, then that would be a useful aid not only to the players who were attending these classes but also to aspiring teachers who were bound to find the same problems arising in their own classes. Learning a bidding system takes effort and hard work but there are ways to make that work easier and I hope I have pointed the way in this book. In many ways declarer play is the easiest part of bridge to come to terms with but there are many problems that my students have encountered over the years. If card play technique is the easiest part of bridge discipline to understand then becoming a competent defender is assuredly the hardest. But just a little bit of application will produce huge rewards.
I teach classes ranging from complete beginners to improvers, but over the years I have noticed that the problems that beset one group are mirrored in another. For example, the number of points one needs for the multitude of no-trump bids that abound is a constant worry to most, as is the tiresome decision as to whether to draw trumps or not and what signal should be given in a particular situation.
And so it began to dawn on me that if I could quantify the most common problems in bidding, play and defence and try to provide an easy way of making obscurity less obscure, then that would be a useful aid not only to the players who were attending these classes but also to aspiring teachers who were bound to find the same problems arising in their own classes. Learning a bidding system takes effort and hard work but there are ways to make that work easier and I hope I have pointed the way in this book. In many ways declarer play is the easiest part of bridge to come to terms with but there are many problems that my students have encountered over the years. If card play technique is the easiest part of bridge discipline to understand then becoming a competent defender is assuredly the hardest. But just a little bit of application will produce huge rewards.
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