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| | Description | Neither for beginners nor for experts but for the 90 percent of players in between, How to Play a Bridge Hand includes more than 300 of bridge master William Root's favorite hands. Hailed by the American Bridge Teachers' Association as the "Book of the Year." Line drawings. | |
| | Product Details | | Author: | William S. Root | | Paperback: | 320 pages | | Publisher: | Three Rivers Press | | Publication Date: | January 13, 1994 | | Language: | English | | ISBN: | 0517881594 | | Product Length: | 7.5 inches | | Product Width: | 0.83 inches | | Product Height: | 9.15 inches | | Product Weight: | 1.31 pounds | | Package Length: | 9.0 inches | | Package Width: | 7.5 inches | | Package Height: | 1.0 inches | | Package Weight: | 1.05 pounds | | Average Customer Rating: |  based on 13 reviews |
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25 of 26 found the following review helpful:
 Excellent - well written Aug 29, 1996
Bill Root's How to Play a Bridge Hand is very well organized
and very easy to follow - from how to play card combinations
through operating a squeeze play.
At the end of each of the twelve chapters there is a quiz of
problem hands to solve.
There is much to be learned from this book and I highly
recommend it for the novice through advanced player.
Winner of the American Bridge Teachers' Association book
of the year award.
15 of 15 found the following review helpful:
 Covers every aspect of play May 02, 2003
By Bob Simkins
"Bob"
A splendid effort from Bill Root. Covers every aspect of play with tips on strategy, technique, and psychology. Covers suit combinations, communications, entries, trump control, ruffing, counting, card reading, squeezes, and end plays. 1990 Bridge Book of the Year.
14 of 14 found the following review helpful:
Covers a lot in not much space Jan 14, 2004
By David M. Lovin
As one who considers himself in the upper novice category of bridge playing, I find this book to be a great tool to learn various techniques for playing bridge hands. There is no bidding in the examples unless it is required for play decisions. There is also no discussion of defense. The book has 12 chapters which each feature an 8 hand quiz at the end. The quiz hands usually focus on the concept covered in the chapter, but also branch out into ideas covered in previous chapters. Basic techniques such as trump play, entries, end plays, and squeezes have their own chapters. As the forward points out, this book is not for rank beginners, nor will the expert get much out of it. For the other 90% of us, it's a great resource to have!
16 of 17 found the following review helpful:
Akin to chewing sawdust May 20, 2005
By L. E Notkin
I am a newbie, here, but having read a bit of this book and Watson's one, I have to say the following: both are excellent books, but both suffer from extreme teaching mentalities. This one is terse, you have to expand the text and analyse it; Watson's book on the other hand spoonfeeds the reader who has to condense and summarise everything in it.
Root's book is dry but effective; be prepared to really work out the examples not just the quizes and you will end up with another book of your own notes; in the end, you really learn the topic.
Also, some person here complained that this book is not for a beginner; I am a beginner. This book has prerequisites which are covered in the free software supplied on the website of the American Bridge Association (ACBL?). Once you go through that teaching tool, you are ready for this book, no problem.
I highly reccomend this book. Terse, focused to the point at hand (ha, ha), it is dry reading, but highly effective if you decide to expand on the text on your own on the margins.
Do not read it passively.
7 of 7 found the following review helpful:
Another winning effort by Bill Root Sep 27, 2005
By Tim Luker
"Bridge infected - Stage 3"
"How to Play a Bridge Hand" is the definitive primer on declarer play. No, it does not teach advanced play technique like backwash squeezes or smother plays. What it does is provide a novice to intermediate player an overview of every aspect of dummy play. The discussions attempt to identify every common card play situation, and the quizzes reinforce this material. If it seems dry at times, that's only because Root apparently wanted to pack as much teaching into as little space as possible - and he succeeds admirably.
This is a must-read book for anyone wanting to begin to improve their dummy play.
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