Title Bridge in the Looking-Glass. Compare Your Play With the Masters .pdf ✅

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You are in 3NT on the first hand of t evening, and_ struggling. Your o stopper in the opponents’ suit has knocked out, there are only eight tric in sight and you don’t expect much help from the defenders, who are Boris Schapiro and Rixi Markus. Take it from there. ... In this book Jeremy Flint and Freddie North offer you the chance to match your skill in dummy-play and defence against the masters —to examine your game in the looking-glass of 100 hands, carefully selected to provide a searching test of your abilities in every aspect of card-play. These hands, presented and analysed by two of Britain’s finest players, make up a complete course of instruction in the expert approach to the game. If you want to keep one jump ahead you will need your share of all the qualities which distinguish the great player: imagination, perfect technique, resource in desperate situations, suspicion in apparently easy ones, coolness, confidence and, most of all, foresight, for every hand has to be planned from an early stage, often from the opening lead. The hands are not meant to be easy — several were misplayed by the experts who originally held them — but the key is always there, and, away from the tensions of the table, you have time to find it: an exotic squeeze, an elusive touch of timing or control, an outrageous falsecard, a super-cautious safety-play, a spectacular coup or simply a despairing swindle — in this book, as in the game itself, there is something of everything. Looking-glasses may not always show us what we want to see; but we can (continued on back flap)

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