Selecting the best line of play in a bridge hand as declarer is not easy. In this book of novice to intermediate bridge problems, Eddie Kantar shows the reader how to do this - there is always a line of play that will allow you to take all your chances, and bring home your contract.

BECOME A BETTER DECLARER - AND EDDIE KANTAR PROMISES IT WILL BE RELATIVELY PAINLESS The problems in this book are not for experts - they are, however, for those whose ambition is to become better bridge players. They involve the everyday cardplay maneuvers that you have to master if you are going to improve as a declarer. As you work through this book, you will encounter more than one example of each theme - endplay, avoidance play, etc. This is intentional - it is important to recognize these situations, and by the end of the book you will be able to do just that. You are making progress if...

Twenty years ago world bridge champion Eddie Kantar distilled his bridge wisdom into a trilogy of books for the intermediate player. He believes that anyone who absorbs even a fraction of them will improve his or her game by at least 25%. For this new edition, the tips have been revised and updated, and a number of new tips have been added.

In 1974, Eddie Kantar wrote Defensive Bridge Play Complete (Wilshire Books), a book which has only recently gone out-of-print, and is a consensus nominee as one of the ten top bridge books ever written. But the technical theory of the game has come a long way in the last 25 years. This book covers the basic concepts of bridge defense for the modern novice player, and will undoubtedly be the standard teaching tool and reference work for the next quarter-century. Kantar's various beginner books have sold hundreds of thousands of copies, not least because of his unique style and the humour that...