Tricks of the Trade: Strategic Thinking for Advanced Bridge

by Larry Cohen

This book is for players who take their bridge seriously. It is intended for those who want to improve their technique and understanding, to become more-desirable partners, to achieve better results, and to gain increased respect among their colleagues. The book investigates many paths to achieving these ends: increasing the value of experience by knowing what things to watch for, learning how to recognize recurring situations, channeling one's mental processes along productive lines, being prepared, understanding cause and effect at the bridge table. The articles in this book originally appeared in The Bridge World magazine and were handpicked by the author for this collection. Because the advice in this book is of a general nature--largely independent of specific partnership agreements, personal styles, and level of expertise--it can be applied repeatedly by an advancing player who gradually gains experience playing at higher levels and a deeper appreciation of the ideas. This is a book that can profitably be read over and over, each time from a different perspective.

144 pages, Paperback

Published July 1, 2018

Reviews

[Lydia Fung]

Larry shared his experiences with different partners, mainly an aggressive partner and a medium partner. The ideas that he shared were mainly quite generalized and not very insightful enough. Nevertheless, he covered quite some parts on the ethics when the partner has some break in tempo, he emphasized the idea that we should follow our usual way of playing even though we know the partner's break in tempo should imply the other way of playing. This is much appreciated to be a fair and respected player.