Modern Bridge Conventions Everyone Should Know: A Reference for Intermediate-Advanced Bridge Players, Large Print Edition

By Liam Williams

Learn Advanced Bidding Conventions Every Serious Partnership Should Know (Large Print)

You've mastered the fundamentals. You know how to open, respond, and hold your own at the club table. But the players who consistently outbid and outscore you aren't working with better cards - they're working with a bigger toolkit.

Inside, you'll learn:

Strong artificial openings, weak two-bids, and modern notrump structuresStayman variants, Jacoby transfers, splinters, and forcing raises for finding the right fitNew Minor Forcing, Fourth Suit Forcing, and the full 2/1 Game Forcing frameworkCompetitive tools including negative doubles, support doubles, Michaels, Unusual 2NT, and responsive doublesDefenses against opposing notrump openings, including DONT and CappellettiLebensohl, for handling competitive auctions with precisionBlackwood, Roman Key Card Blackwood (both 1430 and 0314), Gerber, cuebidding, and the Grand Slam ForceDrury, for handling light third- and fourth-seat openingsDefensive signaling - attitude, count, and suit preference - for the play that follows the biddingNote: This is the big print edition.

This book takes you through the complete arsenal of conventions that intermediate and advanced partnerships rely on, organized the way an auction actually unfolds: from the opening bid, through developing and competing for the contract, all the way to slam.

Each chapter breaks down a convention or family of conventions with clear explanations, realistic worked examples, and practice hands to test your understanding before you bring a new agreement to the table. This is the larger text version for the visually impaired.

Whether you're looking to round out your partnership's convention card or simply want to understand why stronger players reach contracts you'd never have found, this book gives you the tools, the reasoning behind them, and the practice to make them your own. Buy the book today

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0HHK4SH7P
• ISBN13: 9798171255558
• Release Date: September 2026
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 183 Pages
• Weight: 0.83 lbs.
• Dimensions: 10.0" x 0.4" x 8.0"