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With this latest book he has captured (and in understandable words) not only what it takes to win but the way to get there.
In his 40 years as an author, editor, analyst and syndicated columnist, Frank Stewart has had a chance to discern the skills that make a winning player. The intent of this book is to help aspiring players improve by focusing on the factors that really determine how well they do. Most are basic, and anyone who has an ounce...
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The "over-my-shoulder" genre in bridge literature became prominent in the writing of Terence Reese - he was unsurpassed at it - and continued in the work of writers such as Mike Lawrence, Larry Cohen and myself. The reader gets access into the mind of an expert player and follows his thought processes. The reader is exposed to techniques - such as counting and drawing inferences - that are supposedly reserved for experts.
In this book you sit beside...
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Frank Stewart's Bridge Club is no ordinary place. It is the regular haunt of a cast of somehow familiar players: Unlucky Louie, against whom no one ever makes a wrong bid or play; Grapefruit, a man with an unnaturally sour disposition; Cy the Cynic, who knows that the Fates will conspire against him whatever he does; Minnie Bottoms, who tends to mix up jacks and kings but always somehow finds the killing play by mistake; Will Rogers, who never met...
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