Breaking the Bridge Rules

by Rigal, Barry

• ISBN13: 9781897106549
• ISBN10: 1897106548
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-07-01
• Publisher: Master Point Pr

Summary

Rules are made to be broken, and bridge is no exception. The first of a planned four-book series on cardplay, this book deals with situations where the player who is on lead - defender or declarer, at the start of the deal or in the middle - needs to do something that involves ostensibly 'breaking the rules'. Not, obviously, the rules of bridge itself, but the well-tried adages that every player is taught - the rules of thumb that work most of the time. Knowing when to break those rules is one of the marks of an expert player. Book jacket.

Author Biography

Barry Rigal (New York) grew-up in the UK end is o professional bridge writer and commentator. He contributes regularly to various magazines, and is the head VuGraph commentator at World and European events.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. 5
The Opening Lead	p. 7
Underleading an Honor Sequence	p. 8
Underleading an Ace Against a Suit Contract	p. 11
Misleading Partner with Your Spot Card Lead	p. 14
Not Leading Partner's Suit	p. 16
Leading High from a Two-Card Honor Sequence Against Notrurmp	p. 18
Leading Unsupported Honors	p. 20
Which Suit to Lead?	p. 25
Majors or Minors?	p. 26
Unusual Plays From Honors	p. 29
Cashing Out	p. 29
Leading Low from a Doubleton Honor	p. 32
Pin and Win	p. 40
Surrounng Plays	p. 44
Repeating the Finesse	p. 49
Breaking Up the Endplay	p. 50
Entry-Creating and Entry-Destroying Coups	p. 53
Gambits	p. 56
Avoiding the Ruffing Finesse	p. 60
Unblocking Plays	p. 63
Deceptive Play When Leading to a Trick	p. 67
Leading a Low Card from a Sequence of Honors	p. 67
Underleading 'Dangerous' Honors	p. 71
Leading the 'Wrong' Card from a Sequence	p. 76
Leading an Unsupported Honor	p. 78
Switching to Unsupported Honors to Create Losing Options For Declarer	p. 80
Misleading Declarer About High Cards	p. 85
The Lord Giveth and the Lord Taketh Away	p. 87
Putting Declarer to the Guess Prematurely	p. 88
Preventing the Safety Play	p. 90
Putting Declarer to the Guess as to Whether to Duck or to Win	p. 92
Leading, or Switching To, a Deceptive Trump	p. 95
Neutralizing the Opponents' Weapons	p. 99
Safety Plays	p. 100
Gambit Safety Plays	p. 103
Determining Which Honor to Lead Toward	p. 109
Spots Before the Eyes	p. 112
Running the Defense Out of Ammunition	p. 117
Keeping Your Powder Dry	p. 120
Unusual Percentage Plays	p. 121
Focusing on Entries	p. 124
Entry-Creating Plays	p. 129
Leading a High Card to Create an Entry	p. 131
Timing the Duck	p. 135
Deceptive Play By Declarer	p. 139
Discovery Plays	p. 139
Tempting the Cover	p. 142
Vanishing Trump Tricks	p. 155
The Power of the Closed Hand	p. 165
Avoiding the Cover	p. 171
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