Matchpoint Defense Kick it up a Notch: Practical Improvement Techniques

MATCHPOINT DEFENSE - Kick it up a Notch is a new book for duplicate players. MATCHPOINT DEFENSE teaches techniques that go beyond the basics that are used on every hand. The book's 200 pages contain forty-one hands. Many of these hands are directly from club-level tournaments, so the reader gets to see how their play compares to real teams playing in real time. The reader gets to see that the techniques work and that good defense keeps moving daily scores upward.

Excellent defense is much more important in duplicate than in Team-of-Four, Swiss Team, or Rubber Bridge. That's why MATCHPOINT DEFENSE is 100% about matchpoint defense. In matchpoint. every extra trick you get is golden. It doesn't matter whether you limit Declarer's overtricks, set her contract, or cause extra undertricks. Game on!

Paperback; 2019