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4 4? MASTER BRIDGE SERIES HUGH KELSEY & ANDREW KAMBITES
by Hugh Kelsey Killing Defence at Bridge • More Killing Defence at Bridge Advanced Play at Bridge • How to Improve Your Bridge Bridge for the Connoisseur • Improve Your Partner’s Defence Sharpen Your Bridge Technique • Winning Card Play Slam Bidding • Logical Bridge Play • Triple Squeezes Double Squeezes • Strip-Squeezes • Simple Squeezes Test Your Defensive Play • Test Your Pairs Play Test Your Finessing • Test Your Trump Control Test Your Elimination Play • Test Your Safety Play Test Your Card Play: 1-6 (six titles) Test Your Timing • Instant Guide to Bridge Master Squeeze Play • Master Percentages in Bridge Master Finessing Master Slam Bidding Master Signals • Master Doubles (with Ron Klinger) Adventures in Card Play (with Geza Ottlik) Bridge Odds for Practical Players (with Michael Glauert) Improve Your Opening Leads (with John Matheson) Instant Guide to Standard Bridge (with Ron Klinger) Bridge Quiz for Improving Players (with Tim Bourke) * * by Andrew Kambites Card-Placing for You • Signals and Discards for You Defensive Skills for You • Slam Bidding for You Duplicate Pairs for You Bridge Conventions for You (with Ron Klinger) Understanding Acol: the Good Bidding Guide (with Eric Crowhurst)
ACOL BRIDGE FOR BRIGHT BEGINNERS Hugh Kelsey & Andrew Kambites VICTOR GOLLANCZ in association with PETER CRAWLEY
^?£7S'\ Publishers’ Note Hugh Kelsey and Andrew Kambites had completed and delivered the manuscript of this book, and were at work on its sequel, shortly before Hugh sadly died early in 1995. The second book, Acol Bridge for Bright Improvers, will be published in the Spring of 1996. PSC First published in Great Britain 1995 in association with Peter Crawley by Victor Gollancz An imprint of the Cassell Group Wellington House, 125 Strand, London WC2R OBB © Hugh Kelsey & Andrew Kambites 1995 The right of Hugh Kelsey and Andrew Kambites to be identified as authors of this work has been asserted by them in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library ISBN 0 575 06174 X Photoset in Great Britain by Rowland Phototypesetting Limited, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk. Printed in Great Britain by St Edmundsbury Press Limited, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk.
Contents Introduction 6 1. Making a Start 9 2. The Principles of Good Bidding 19 3. The Acol Bidding System 27 4. Responding to 1NT 35 5. Responding to Suit Bids 37 6. Opener’s Rebid 44 7. Responder’s Rebid 47 8. Strong Opening Bids 49 9. Bidding a Slam 53 10. Pre-emptive Bidding 57 11. When Opponents Open 59 12. Developing Tricks at No-trumps 68 13. The Finesse 76 14. Using a Trump Suit 84 15. Entries and Communications 93 16. Winners and Losers 100 17. Starting the Defence 104 18. Further Defensive Principles 113 Improving your Game 123 Appendix 1. The Stayman Convention 126 Appendix 2. Scoring Tables 127 Answers to Quizzes 130