57+ Bridge Conventions Made Easy clearly and concisely describes and explains conventions for all bridge players to maximize their bidding, enabling both partners to have an exact understanding of each other's bids. With over 200 charts and tables, and many examples, novice and intermediate bridge players can easily learn how to communicate the most popular bridge conventions. Advanced players are also able to learn new and unfamiliar conventions. This book is easy to read as it has no extraneous details. It is written clearly and concisely so that each member of the partnership will have an exact understanding of their partner's bid. This book is loaded with information about how to use – and avoid abusing – a long list of conventions. 57+ Bridge Conventions Made Easy can be used by steady partners and by casual partners. The book is arranged alphabetically and indexed so that a convention can be easily found. Awarded the 2016 eLit Gold Award for Best How-To Book and the Bronze Award for Education/Academic/Teaching. The Revised 2nd Edition was edited by Brent Manley. Format: four-color, 8.5 x 11 (216 mm x 280 mm), 172 pages. Conventions include:
#1 Balancing
#2 Bergen Responses
#3 Blackwood
#4 Brozel
#5 Cappelletti
#6 Checkback Stayman
#7 Cuebids
#8 DOPI, ROPI, DEPO & REPO
#9 DONT
#10 Drury
#11 Flannery
#12 Forcing
#13 Fourth-Suit Forcing
#14 Gambling 3NT
#15 Gerber (4 Clubs)
#16 Grand Slam Force
#17 Inverted Minor Raises
#18 Jacoby Transfers
#19 Jacoby 4-Suit Transfers
#20 Jacoby 2NT
#21 Jordan 2NT
#22 Journalist Leads
#23 Landy
#24 Lavinthal Discards
#25 Law of Total Tricks
#26 Lebensohl 2NT Over Opponent’s Weak Two-Bid
#27 Losing Trick Count
#28 Maximal Double
#29 Michaels Cue Bid
#30 Mini Roman
#31 Minor-Suit Stayman
#32 Namyats
#33 Negative Double
#34 New-Minor Forcing
#35 Odd-Even Discards
#36 Ogust
#37 Overcalls
#38 Preemptive Bids
#39 Puppet Stayman
#40 Responsive Double
#41 Rules in Bridge
#42 Rusinow Leads
#43 Smolen Transfer
#44 Splinter Bid
#45 Stayman
#46 Step Responses to a Strong Two Club Opening
#47 Strong 1 Club (Precision)
#48 Support Doubles
#49 Takeout Double
#50 Texas Transfers
#51 Strong 2 Clubs
#52 Two Over One Game Force
#53 Upside-Down Count and Attitude
#54 Unusual 2NT
#55 Weak Jump Shift
#56 Weak 1NT
#57 Weak Two-Bids
#58 Western Cue Bid
Alvin L. Lesser, after serving in the military, received a B.A. in Accounting from New York University. Alvin was a Certified Public Accountant in New York for over 35 years. He was also a licensed real estate broker and commercial property developer. Alvin has played and taught bridge for over 60 years. In 2011, Alvin wrote Basic Accounting Simplified, an award winning illustrated primer for beginning and struggling accounting students. The following year he wrote Memories of the Catskills: The Making of a Hotel, an award winning memoir about the rise and fall of the "Borscht Belt" in New York's Catskill Mountains. Lesser Lodge, a small hotel started by his mother and father where the author spent the better part of his childhood, lies at the center of this heartfelt tale. His next book, Quick Reference to Bridge Conventions, will be released next year.
Brent Manley has played bridge for more than 40 years. After 20 years in the newspaper business, he went to work for the American Contract Bridge League (ACBL). He retired in 2014 after 25 years, most of them as editor of the Bridge Bulletin. He is the author of seven bridge books.
