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The official illustrated book of the 2021 World Bridge Championships in Salsomaggiore, Italy, published to coincide with the 2022 event in Poland.

This guide selects 25 basic conventions and treatments that novice bridge players can easily assimilate into their own methods. The book explains clearly and concisely how to use each convention, and how each one fits into a standard bidding system. Quizzes are included to assist understanding.

An accessible study of all aspects of probability in the game of bridge, to help every player understand percentages and choices in play.

Profits from the sale of this book will be donated to the USBF Junior ProgramIf you are a student of game theory, statistics, and math, The Cutting Edge is a great read. Dave applies the nuances of these strategies to the game we all love. The text is highly analytical. Ralph Katz, Bermuda Bowl Champion I enjoyed this a lot. I expect something will be new to most readers, and it's a nice collection of related ideas in one place. Franco Baseggio, hedge fund statistical arbitrage specialist[The book] presents bridge situations in a way that bridge players would understand them. It is much more important to be interested in thinking about things mathematically than to have previous knowledge.Greg Lawler, mathematics professor, University of ChicagoI enjoyed the hands and analysis. Following the equilibrium mixed strategy is safe in a sense, but in practice you're only exploitable if the opponent knows you deviate and in which direction. Jonathan Weinstein, economics professor, University of Washington in St. Louis

Marc Smith's original World Class, published in 1999, became a classic. This all-new edition features the world's best players of today discussing their lives, at the table and away from it - how they started, their best and worst bridge memories, their favorite hands, why partnerships work well, and their hopes for the future.You may recognize the names from your bridge magazine or from watching them play online. This book will show you their human sides. You will relive their triumphs and disasters at the bridge table, and pick up plenty of tips to improve your game. Get to know many of the world's best players, male and female, young and old.Players in this volume: Christian BAKKE (Norway) Sophia BALDYSZ (Poland)David BIRD (England) Sjoert BRINK (Switzerland)Sally BROCK (England) Sanna CLEMENTSSON (Sweden)Simon DE WIJS (Netherlands) Brigitta FISCHER (Hungary)Peter FREDIN (Sweden) Michal KLUKOWSK (Switzerland)Jessica LARSSON (Sweden) Cedric LORENZINI (France)Bauke MULLER (Netherlands) Nevena SENIOR (England)Daniela VON ARNIM (Germany)

The official book of the 2022 World Bridge Series Championships which were staged in Wroclaw, Poland with colour photographs and a full list of results.

The second book in Danny Roth's new intermediate-level series on declarer play, this book covers topics that, once mastered, will bring any intermediate player an immediate improvement in their scores.

This new edition of Practice Makes Perfect, a compendium of practice hands to help students understand and practice the conventions in the parent book, has been updated in similar fashion, to reflect the changes in 25 Conventions You Should Know, Second Edition.

Revised and updated edition of the handy pocket-sized guide to basic bidding conventions for bridge players, based upon the teachings contained in the world's best-selling bridge textbook.

Fascinating autobiography of the controversial three-times world bridge champion who brought the sensibility and dress sense of 1960s San Francisco to the staid bridge scene.

A bridge textbook on how to get to good game contracts with fewer than the officially sanctioned number of card points, using examples from tournament play.

A guide to bidding at bridge based on the author's long-running column in the American Contract Bridge League's Bridge Bulletin , giving the reader a chance to learn from someone else's mistakes.

The original ''Shark''s Pointers'' article appeared in 1975, in a small Boston-area newspaper. Thirty years later, the idea reemerged as a series of bridge columns and lectures in Massachusetts. Then, during the pandemic, Shark''s Pointers went online, and it is these latter talks and the advice they contain that have now been collected into this book.  Written in an over-the-shoulder style, this book can be read for fun or profit or both: you will learn more about bridge if you care to, or you can just enjoy the anecdotes and the great deals.

52 new bridge-themed crosswords featuring the world'smost popular card game