Most of the contracts that you play are suit contracts. the presence of a trump suit provides more choices and also more dangers.

This third book in the Card Play Made Easy series deals solely with trump contracts - and aims to impart skills that are not too difficult o recognise and to put into practice. The topics include how to create more winners and how to eliminate losers, how to spot the defenders' plans and how to thwart them and how to choose the best line when you have a number of options.

Chapters 1-7 end with a collection of declarer problems on the relevant area and the...

No matter how good your bidding system or your partnership understandings, such advantages will vanish if you fail to make an accurate assessment of the value of your hand. As the bidding proceeds, you need constantly to make adjustments to your initial evaluation. The authors show you how to do that. They provide guides which allow you to judge whether your hand fits well with your partner's, whether the danger of a misfit exists, whether your high cards lie well or badly in relation to the opponents', how high to bid, when to try to outbid the opponents and when to choose to defend. This...