ACBL Series & books by Audrey Grant

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    Posted on May 6th, 2009

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    ACBL The ‘Diamond’ – Play the Hand

    (Declarer Play) A classic on bridge play, a standard essential text book, using the five techniques for developing tricks.

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    ACBL The ‘Heart" – Defence

    (Defence) A classic on defence.

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    ACBL Commonly Used Conventions

    This book covers many of the conventions commonly used in tournament bridge. It includes the Stayman Convention, Jacoby Transfers, Jacoby 2NT, Drury, Truscott, Fourth Suit Forcing, Weak Two-Bids and Responses, and the Strong 2 Opening and Responses. There are extensive exercises at the end of each chapter along with sample deals showing the conventions in action.

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    ACBL Commonly More Used Conventions

    This book continues where Commonly Used Conventions left off. It includes Negative Doubles, Redoubles, Landy, Michaels, Unusual Notrump, Blackwood, Gerber, Cuebidding, Leads, Signals, and Two-Over-One Game Forcing. Cards & teachers manuals available with each.

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    EZ Cards: ACBL The ‘Diamond’

    Assistance card for the ‘Diamond’.

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    EZ Cards: ACBL The ‘Heart’

    Assistance card for the ‘Heart’.

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    EZ Cards: ACBL Commonly Used Conventions

    Assistance card for the Commonly Used Conventions.

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    EZ Cards: ACBL Commonly More Used Conventions

    Assistance card for the Commonly More Used Conventions.

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    Better Bridge Series: Using Your Judgement: The Opening Bid

    Better Bridge Series: Using Your Judgement: The Opening Bid. The first call has an impact on the bidding, play and defense of the entire deal. This book introduces concepts that will have you confident and capable of making good decisions when you are in a position to open. It includes the Guidelines of 15 and 20, light opening bids, pre-emptive bids and strong 2 Clubs.

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    Better Bridge: Doubles

    Understanding the many uses of the double can dramatically improve your game. This book reviews the basics and introduces tools to improve your judgment. It covers takeout doubles, advancing the double, rebids by the doubler and advancer, balancing and other doubles.

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    Competitive Bidding

    This book covers the concepts needed when both sides are bidding for the contract. It introduces the basic competitive tools–preemptive opening bids, overcalls, and takeout doubles. The concepts and information presented are the most current available, developed with the assistance of the game’s top champions.

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    Competitive Bidding: Coded Cards

    The coded cards for Bridge Basics 2 are 32 different deals, indicated by the boxes numbered 1-32 on the back of each card. Each box is color-coded to show which player is dealt the card. An underline indicates the dealer. The cards compliment the Bridge Basics 2 textbook.

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    Better Bridge Series: Popular Conventions

    It covers everything from playing at a party table to a tournament table; Popular Conventions teaches you the core conventions that will strengthen your game for sure. It introduces you to the Stayman conventions, Jacoby transfer bids, the strong artifical two club opening, Blackwood and Gerber. This book gives you a chance to get ahead and win!

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    Bridge at a Glance

    Bridge At a Glance is a quick reference of the material in the award-winning Audrey Grant Bridge Basics series.These summaries work in conjunction with the books which present the reasoning behind the guidelines.

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    Two-Over-One Game Force

    NEW BOOK by Audrey Grant & Eric Rodwell. A popular variation of Standard American bidding methods. The reader is shown how a small modification can make it easier for the partnership to get to the best game contract, and explore the possibility of slam. It also describes how using a response of 1NT as a forcing bid can improve the partnership results, even on partscore hands.

    The book is filled with helpful features such as summaries, quizzes, and carefully constructed sample deals at the end of each chapter. Additional practice deals give the reader an opportunity to become more familiar with each of the concepts introduced in Two-Over-One Game Force.

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