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The Times Improve Your Bridge Game: A practical guide on how to improve at bridge
Based on The Times Bridge column, an extensive bridge guide aimed at the less experienced or social player who longs to improve their game, with instructive deals and tips, as well as a helpful Index.
Andrew Robson, The Times Bridge Correspondent, is both a champion Bridge player and an inspired teacher. He teaches and tutors at his Bridge Club and has acquired great practical knowledge about how people learn to play Bridge.
Based on Andrew Robson’s daily column in The Times, common scenarios are presented with an outline of what actually happened, as well as what should have happened. Along with every deal is the very popular handy tip ‘If you remember just one thing…’, which features throughout the book.
The first section of the book, ‘The Game’, is a basic outline providing the key to playing a sensible game of Bridge, subdivided into ‘Bidding’, ‘Declarer Play’ and ‘Defence’.
The reader can either read ‘The Game’ first, paying particular attention to the tips, or they can dip in and out of the book, picking a common mistake at random, with the option to cross-reference to the same tip in ‘The Game’ section.
Bridge is now reaching a new audience, and is being played by people of all ages. Let Andrew Robson help you to improve your game!
Previously published in 2005 as The Times Common Mistakes and How to Avoid Them
Andrew Robson, The Times Bridge Correspondent, is both a champion Bridge player and an inspired teacher. He teaches and tutors at his Bridge Club and has acquired great practical knowledge about how people learn to play Bridge.
Based on Andrew Robson’s daily column in The Times, common scenarios are presented with an outline of what actually happened, as well as what should have happened. Along with every deal is the very popular handy tip ‘If you remember just one thing…’, which features throughout the book.
The first section of the book, ‘The Game’, is a basic outline providing the key to playing a sensible game of Bridge, subdivided into ‘Bidding’, ‘Declarer Play’ and ‘Defence’.
The reader can either read ‘The Game’ first, paying particular attention to the tips, or they can dip in and out of the book, picking a common mistake at random, with the option to cross-reference to the same tip in ‘The Game’ section.
Bridge is now reaching a new audience, and is being played by people of all ages. Let Andrew Robson help you to improve your game!
Previously published in 2005 as The Times Common Mistakes and How to Avoid Them
210 pages, Kindle Edition
Published September 6, 2018
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About the author
Andrew Robson
54 books1 followerAndrew Robson OBE is England’s best known bridge player. Andrew has represented England for some 30 years. His many competitive successes include winning the World Youth Team Championships, the European Championships, and the Gold Cup on no fewer than eight occasions.
Andrew has put his training as a schoolteacher to good use by heading hundreds of instructional seminars around the UK, many in aid of charity. He was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2013 New Year Honours for services to bridge and charity. Later the same year he was the joint winner of Personality of the Year at the International Bridge Press Association's annual awards. In 2018 he was a winner of the English Bridge Union's Diamond Award, introduced to recognise players "in recognition of excellence and success over a sustained period for England's international teams”.In 1995, he founded the highly successful Andrew Robson Bridge Club in South West London. He writes daily for the Times, weekly for Country Life and Money Week, and monthly for The Oldie. He is the author of many books on bridge, as well as instructional DVDs and online videos.
Andrew is married, with two daughters, and lives in London. When not bridging, Andrew loves long walks and bike rides.
http://www.andrewrobson.co.uk/andrew/...
Andrew has put his training as a schoolteacher to good use by heading hundreds of instructional seminars around the UK, many in aid of charity. He was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2013 New Year Honours for services to bridge and charity. Later the same year he was the joint winner of Personality of the Year at the International Bridge Press Association's annual awards. In 2018 he was a winner of the English Bridge Union's Diamond Award, introduced to recognise players "in recognition of excellence and success over a sustained period for England's international teams”.In 1995, he founded the highly successful Andrew Robson Bridge Club in South West London. He writes daily for the Times, weekly for Country Life and Money Week, and monthly for The Oldie. He is the author of many books on bridge, as well as instructional DVDs and online videos.
Andrew is married, with two daughters, and lives in London. When not bridging, Andrew loves long walks and bike rides.
http://www.andrewrobson.co.uk/andrew/...
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February 7, 2023
This is a perfect follow up to
The Times Beginner’s Guide to Bridge: A practical guide on how to play and master bridge
If you are beyond a beginner but not yet an expert this will give plenty of ways to improve your bridge.
As with his earlier book the bidding system he uses is an English based Acol system with a strong two opening.
The Times Beginner’s Guide to Bridge: A practical guide on how to play and master bridge
If you are beyond a beginner but not yet an expert this will give plenty of ways to improve your bridge.
As with his earlier book the bidding system he uses is an English based Acol system with a strong two opening.
July 6, 2019
An excellent format, easy to read and enormously helpful.
June 16, 2020
Comprehensive and easy to follow. Useful examples. Waiting for the end of lockdown to put it all into practice.
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