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Author: Bill Treble
In the modern game, the majority of auctions are competitive, and every improving player needs to acquire the tools to handle this kind of bidding.
This text covers the basic building blocks of competitive bidding (takeout and negative doubles, preempts, overcalls, competing over their notrump openings and dealing with competition over your own, forcing pass auctions, the Law of Total Tricks, and others). It describes a number of useful conventions and gadgets with which the reader needs to be familiar, and suggests other optional treatments for partnership discussion. Each chapter ends with reviews and quizzes, and the final chapter is a summary quiz covering all the material.
This book will fill a major gap in bridge literature - most books on this topic are intended for expert-level players.
About the Author: Bill Treble (Winnipeg, Canada) is an expert bridge player and former bronze medalist in the Canadian Teams Championship. His wife Sue, a bridge teacher, wishes Bill would listen to the advice in this book.
Paperback: 224 pages: 2012
 
Chapter 1: Principles of Competing and Basic Tools
Chapter 2: How High Can You Fly?
Chapter 3: Two! Two! Two Suits in One Bid!
Chapter 4: Bidding as the Auction Progresses
Chapter 5: Notrump Auctions
