Contract bridge for beginners
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Contract Bridge For Beginners is a book written by Charles Goren on the rules and basic strategies of contract bridge
. First published by Simon & Schuster
Inc. of New York in 1953 and by Eyre & Spottiswoode of London in 1959, each has been reprinted numerous times. The book contains an introduction to the then relatively new bidding system condensed from Goren's historically significant 1947 book Point Count Bidding in Contract Bridge.
Contract Bridge for Beginners is a "competent but unimaginative text" with a bidding system that is "of little practical use today" having been superseded by more modern methods.
Contract bridge
Contract bridge, usually known simply as bridge, is a trick-taking card game using a standard deck of 52 playing cards played by four players in two competing partnerships with partners sitting opposite each other around a small table...
. First published by Simon & Schuster
Simon & Schuster
Simon & Schuster, Inc., a division of CBS Corporation, is a publisher founded in New York City in 1924 by Richard L. Simon and M. Lincoln Schuster. It is one of the four largest English-language publishers, alongside Random House, Penguin and HarperCollins...
Inc. of New York in 1953 and by Eyre & Spottiswoode of London in 1959, each has been reprinted numerous times. The book contains an introduction to the then relatively new bidding system condensed from Goren's historically significant 1947 book Point Count Bidding in Contract Bridge.
Contract Bridge for Beginners is a "competent but unimaginative text" with a bidding system that is "of little practical use today" having been superseded by more modern methods.