Which Precision Club?

[hoolie]

Berkowitz/Manleys book is an easy read and is based on a sensible Precision style, but it is certainly not "convoluted". Alan Sontag's book "Power Precision" covers some more advanced methods. Jannersten and Viking may be options as well, but I don't know those books. Antipodean Club is the state of the art as I understand it, but I haven't read the book about it.

 

SH: I have the most votes for Berkowitz book but will pick up

the Reese or Rigal or Wei book if I ever find it used.

 

By convoluted I meant artificial in the sense that Hardy says

using Inverted Trump Swiss is recommended. That seems just

as artificial as the big club though not the simpler splinter bids.

ITS comes with a lot of memorized responses Underjumps etc.

 

If you're going to learn a new system from scratch and you're open to anything, you might consider Moscito.

 

You can also try to look in the "book reviews" thread in General Bridge Discussion". I admit I have no idea how to search a single long thread for specific keywords, but a query like

+precision +rigal

on the "general bridge discussion" (select any post age, view results as posts), gives some hits.

 

I used to play 2/1 but switched to Precision in my IRL partnership half a year ago after having played Precision with some semi-regular partners on BBO for a couple of years. I would still have to study it a lot more and to discuss a lot of things with my p in order to benefit from the advantages of Precision. I think 2/1 has the advantage that most style and judgement discussions, such as the "interesting bridge hands" on this forum and Master Solvers' Club in The Bridge World, assume 2/1 or something similar.

 

SH: I guess they use the simpler 2/1 style. "Antipodean Club"

got no hits on google, thanks for the tip on doing searches.

 

Thanks everyone for your interesting responses. I couldn't figure out how to

reply so I posted this as a new topic with the same subject.

 

Regards,

Stephen

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