Judgment at Bridge

This book is the best I have seen about the thought processes you should go through in evaluating bridge hands and deciding on appropriate action. It clearly outlines what is important and why, in a way that helps you develop your judgment and extend the examples given to other situations. This is a must read for intermediate players who are serious about improving.

The book doesn't cover convention abuse, it focuses on meat and potato issues taht are frequently botched. We all know how to bid and respond to take out doubles, right? The book has some good hands that intermediate players frequently get wrong. We all know standard bidding and always make correct responses with misfitting hands, right? In competition we know when a weak hand increases in value and when a strong hand decreases in value, right? Example: pard makes a take out double over 1 Club and we have a diamond suit Q 10 8 7 2, we are not looking forward to bidding. Thankfully RHO bids 1 Spade. Pard bids 2 diamonds, and RHO bids again. Our hand has just marketly incraed in value. Pard has a very strong hand to be bidding after a take out double, especially since we couldn't respond. We have 5 Diamonds in the suit he bid with teh Q and the 10. Raise to 3 Diamonds. While the book was written a long time ago, its still current, because these are the types of problems that are timeless.

How to avoid common mistakes. Easy to understand. Covers many areas of bidding and defense that are seldom discussed.