
                 BRIDGE IS MY GAME
               The Lessons of a Lifetime
                     Charles H.Goren
                     with Jack Olsen

    EIGHT STRAIGHT-TALKING, WITTY LESSONS from the unpraralleled
    lifetime of Charles Goren - to let you play and enjoy better bridge.
    Mr.Goren explores the various areas where skill is vital and where
    the most costly mistakes are made, and distills a few astonishingly
    simple guidelines. Here is his unique account of famous plauers and
    memorable hands; illustrations form his own years of learning enhance
    basic advice as he now lets you in on the tricks of the trade for:

    (  Being brave. The mathematics of the cards penalizes timid
    bidders but offers a big edge to players who take intelligent risks.

    (  Knowing how to keep your partner informed and your opponent 
    off ballance.

    (  The traps and triumphs of the double and the redouble.

    (  Making the best of an impossible partnership.

    (  How to "play the cards and not the rules". He proves that 
    memorized conventions without a few grains of common sense
    hamper your enjoyment of the game, anger your partner, and 
    delight your opponents - as they rack up the point.

    Seventy brand new quizzes and scores of hands that Charles Goren
    asks you to analyze with him, help to make this a lively book 
    that certainly improve your game, your temper and your winning 
    streak.


                
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