Defensive Tips for Bad Card Holders Over 500 Hands

by Eddie Kantar and Edwin B. Kantar

Book Overview

You will learn when to cover an honor, how to take extra tricks in the trump suit and tips for avoiding an end play. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1882180216
• ISBN13: 9781882180219
• Release Date: January 2004
• Publisher: Griffin Publishing
• Length: 278 Pages
• Weight: 0.74 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.3" x 8.4"

Customer Reviews

Defense by Thinking, not by Rote

This is a superb work, chock-full of insights and intelligently organized by topic. Here's two key examples of frequently occurring dilemmas sorely neglected elsewhere: (A) Defending a suit contract as third hand, you can either cash a high card in a side suit, setting up a winner in dummy, or you can underlead your high card to give partner a ruff. Which should you do? In practice, either may be correct, depending on the context of the entire hand. Kantar gives a COMPLETE autopsy of exactly what to think about in order to make the correct choice. (B) Defending a suit contract as third hand, you hold ATxx in a side suit. Dummy hits with a small singleton in that suit. Kantar points out that you KNOW declarer is going to lead that singleton through you sooner or later, probably sooner. Do you fly in with the Ace or duck (smoothly)? The latter is more often correct, but not always. Here too, Kantar gives precise guidance on what to think about in order to choose the correct defensive play. The well over 500 tips in the book are loaded with good advice such as "When declarer doesn't dare lose the lead and is guessing which finesse to take for the fulfilling trick, cover NOTHING."

Eddie Kantar is best bridge writer... ever!

Humorous and in language that I can really understand.