Advanced Bridge Defense covers the more complex concepts of bridge defense for the modern novice player, and is designed to be read after Eddie Kantar Teaches Modern Bridge Defense. Topics covered include Drawing Inferences, Planning Your Strategy, Counting, Falsecards and Deceptive Plays, Creating [...]
This CD-ROM edition is based on the best-seller that was named 1999 Book of the Year by the American Bridge Teachers Association. The topics covered (which include planning the defense, inferences, various ways of counting the hand, developing extra trump tricks, falsecarding, and lead-directing dou[...]
Eddie Kantar's Bridge Humor (Wilshire, 1977) and The Best of Eddie Kantar (Granovetter, 1989) have both been out of print for some years. For this new collection, Eddie has selected the funniest stories from the two previous books, and added a number of new pieces. Drawing on his own vast array of p[...]
A treasury of short pieces from one of the bridge world's favourite writers. Great stories, great hands, tips and tricks to help your game -- the best of the best.[...]
Whether you're an advanced beginner, an intermediate or an advanced player, this valuable book can help you win more frequently and gain greater personal satisfaction from contract bridge. This is a book on the play of hands, full of wise counsel; it will entertain experts and help them teach others[...]
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 [...]
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 t[...]
Kantar's two-book series on Bridge Defense (Modern Bridge Defense and Advanced Bridge Defense) won an ABTA Book of the Year Award in 1999. This newer book addresses a more popular topic, using a similar approach. While not a comprehensive treatment of declarer play at bridge, this book deals with sp[...]
This CD-ROM is based on the book of the same name. The ideas, (entry management, suit establishment techniques, finessing - both how and how not to -- counting and endplays) are handled thoroughly, but in a way that any reader can understand. This software edition presents the material in interactiv[...]
Selecting the best line of play in a bridge hand as declarer is not easy. Most novices know something about basic odds and percentages, and can often find a line that offers a reasonable chance of success. However, the expert will skilfully combine options, so as to take advantage of more than cha[...]
Twenty years ago, Kantar set about distilling his bridge wisdom into a trilogy of books for the intermediate player, one each on Bidding, Play and Defence. Each consisted of several hundred short tips, and the author believes that any reader who absorbs even a fraction of them will improve his or h[...]
Twenty years ago, World Bridge Champion Eddie Kantar set about distilling his bridge wisdom into a trilogy of books for the intermediate player, one each on Bidding, Play and Defence. Each consisted of several hundred short tips, and the author believes that any reader who absorbs even a fraction o[...]