Book Recommendation Request

[bluecalm]

I think BBO/Lawrence software (counting at bridge/defence) along with "how to read your opponent's cards" are the best things out there. I recommend the software as it's easy to click through and you are asked a lot of questions in the meantime which teaches you good habits.

[bid_em_up]

If you haven't read/worked through these, I would suggest doing so:

 

Take Your Tricks: Over 550 Declarer Play Tips You Can Take To The Bank

Test Your Bridge Play: Volume 1, 100 Declarer-Play Problems Designed to Improve Your Card Playing Techniques

Test Your Bridge Play: Volume 2, 115 Declarer-Play Problems Designed to Improve Card Playing Techniques for Bridge Players Who Are Sick and Tired of Going Down in Cold Contracts

 

All three are available on Amazon, and are written for improving the declarer skills of intermediate players.

 

EDIT: All three books are by Eddie Kantar

[bid_em_up]

Not remotely what you asked for, but my answer nonetheless.  Sit down and read Adventures in Card Play.  Take the 1 hour necessary for each page, to actually understand what is happening.  The experience I had when I read this the first time was incomparable.  You won't see these actual problems arise very often, if at all, but the problems force you into a way of thinking that is completely different and opens up a different world.

Suggesting Adventures in Card Play to an aspiring intermediate player is, imo, a sure-fire way to make them quit the game.

 

I don't dispute that it is an excellent book, and at some point in time, it becomes a "must-read", but this is kind of like suggesting calculus to the caveman who only wants to learn how to add & subtract.

[vuroth]

I own Watson's Play of the Hand. I found it dry, but it might be worth another stab.

 

Lawrence's How to Read Your Opponent's Cards is an outstanding book, but the focus is narrow rather than broad.

 

I've started on some of the level 3 Bridgemaster problems. So far, they're easier than the sample problems, but I'm not getting them first time necessarily, and slowing down and thinking is good.

 

Thanks.

 

W