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Bridge Quiz for Improving Players
Presenting 60 bridge problems in the play of the cards, this quiz book challenges readers to test their skills, and aims to help improving players progress towards expert status. Hugh Kelsey has twice won the Gold Cup, and Tim Bourke has won five Australian national titles.
- GenresGames
128 pages, Hardcover
First published June 1, 1993
About the author
Hugh Walter Kelsey
78 books6 followers Hugh Walter Kelsey (1926 – 1995) was a Scottish bridge player and writer, best known for advanced books on the play of the cards.
However, he was most famous and will be remembered as a writer. He wrote some fifty books on the game, mostly aimed at intermediate to advanced players. It is a measure of their quality that many of them were still in print more than a decade after his death. Two of his books, Killing Defence at Bridge and Advanced Play at Bridge, were listed by the Official Encyclopedia of Bridge as "mandatory requirements for a modern technical bridge library". Adventures in Card Play by Kelsey and Géza Ottlik (Gollancz, 1979) is regarded by many as the most advanced book on the play of the cards. It introduced and developed many new concepts such as backwash squeeze and entry-shifting squeeze. Bridge experts surveyed by the American Contract Bridge League (ACBL) in 2007 ranked it third on a list of their favourite books, nearly thirty years after its first publication.
Kelsey was bridge columnist for the Edinburgh newspaper The Scotsman, wrote many articles for bridge magazines, and was general editor for the Gollancz Master Bridge series. He was the International Bridge Press Association Personality of the Year in 1993.
The Scottish Bridge Union holds an annual Hugh Kelsey Tournament. This is open to all those in Scotland who are currently receiving lessons.
However, he was most famous and will be remembered as a writer. He wrote some fifty books on the game, mostly aimed at intermediate to advanced players. It is a measure of their quality that many of them were still in print more than a decade after his death. Two of his books, Killing Defence at Bridge and Advanced Play at Bridge, were listed by the Official Encyclopedia of Bridge as "mandatory requirements for a modern technical bridge library". Adventures in Card Play by Kelsey and Géza Ottlik (Gollancz, 1979) is regarded by many as the most advanced book on the play of the cards. It introduced and developed many new concepts such as backwash squeeze and entry-shifting squeeze. Bridge experts surveyed by the American Contract Bridge League (ACBL) in 2007 ranked it third on a list of their favourite books, nearly thirty years after its first publication.
Kelsey was bridge columnist for the Edinburgh newspaper The Scotsman, wrote many articles for bridge magazines, and was general editor for the Gollancz Master Bridge series. He was the International Bridge Press Association Personality of the Year in 1993.
The Scottish Bridge Union holds an annual Hugh Kelsey Tournament. This is open to all those in Scotland who are currently receiving lessons.
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October 3, 2009
Problem pp. 57-58 is misanalysed. Is the implication of the title that this book is for the average player? Of course, even the world champion might be improving. So far these problems are really quite challenging and the fact of the misanalysis in itself reflects the complexity of the problems. Further, I'm not sure if, in order to keep the analysis short, there has been a temptation to simplify the nature of the problems.
The problems are interesting, but tougher than you might expect.
The problems are interesting, but tougher than you might expect.
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