Bridge Books in PDF format

[pedjabre]

Hi,

 

does anyone know any intermediate to advanced books available in PDF format?

 

Also, I would greatly appreciate links to Victor Mollo's Menagerie series, if anywhere available in pdf.

 

I live in a country where bridge books are not something you find in your local bookstore :).

 

Regards,

 

Pedja.

[NickToll]

"Partnership Bidding", by Robson-Segal, can be found on Daniel Neill's site: http://www.geocities.com/daniel_neill_2000/sys/index.html. It's not a scan from the original book: it's a complete re-type in A4-format. But IMHO the result is quite readable...

[nickf]

sorry folks, I gotta lay my cards on the table here.

 

There aren't many of us around, but I make my living out of selling bridge books, software etc.

 

As far as I'm aware there are no bridge authors that have published e-books, so it would seem to me that books available in .pdf might be an infringement of copyright yada yada.

 

If bridge books arent available at your local bridge store, google bridge shops or bridge books and you'll find plenty of reputable on-line traders.

 

nickf

sydney

[MickyB]

I agree nick - but I understand that the Partnership Bidding PDF is legal.

[nickf]

I agree nick - but I understand that the Partnership Bidding PDF is legal.

don't believe everything you read on the internet mickey.

 

nickf

sydney

[ArcLight]

I realize that shipping may add to the cost, but a great number of excellent bridge books may be found at the lowest possible price via:

 

http://www.campusi.com/book/default.asp

 

Its a book store search engine. I've used it to buy dozzens of bridge books.

I can get new books at a 25%-50% discount, and used books for %50 or less of the retail price.

 

 

Also, Carl Ritner sells books at:

 

http://www.carlritner.com/ACBL.htm

 

He is a reputable seller, I've bought many books from him.

 

 

If you want good bridge articles for free I suggest the following sites:

 

Mike Lawrence http://www.michaelslawrence.com

Richard Pavlicek http://www.rpbridge.net/rpbr.htm

Karen Walker http://www.prairienet.org/bridge/

Bridge Guys http://www.bridgeguys.com/glossbridgemain.html

 

Great Bridge Links http://www.greatbridgelinks.com/gblCLASS/

[luke warm]

as far as the r-s book, according to dan the pdf online is there by author agreement... as for other pdf books, i only know of 'a switch in time' by granovetter, and you can get it at their site by buying a subscription to their magazine, http://bridgetoday.com/

[pdmunro]

Try these links. They are principally learning/teaching material.

 

pdf files

 

SAYC (booklet at acbl website)

http://www.acbl.org/documentlibrary/play/sayc_book.pdf

 

Kenneth L Lindsay "Foundations of Modern American Bidding"; an incredible effort

http://northshorebridge.com/index.htm

 

Complete 100+ page book on Acol, very clearly written.

http://www.leeds.ac.uk/union/sports/bridge/guide.html

 

zar points (difficult)

http://www.zarpoints.com/TheDownloads.htm

 

Robson & Segal (Partnership Bidding, advanced+)

http://www.geocities.com/daniel_neill_2000/sys/index.html

 

migry (see her Sitemap for lots of pdf files)

http://www.migry.com/home_page.htm

 

minibridge

http://www.ebu.co.uk/ecpubdefault.asp?page...ching+Materials

(click Teaching Materials, then "MiniBridge teaching hands.pdf" (156 Kb), located about middle of the list)

 

loser count (site of xx1943 BBO bridge teacher)

http://www.albrecht-hollstein.de/Bridge.htm

 

acbl teaching (see pdf handbook at bottom of page)

http://www.acbl.org/teachers/index.html

 

txt files

bridge museum http://www3.telus.net/ldh/bridge.html

 

HTML pages for beginners/intermediates

 

Standard American by Richard Pavlicek

http://www.rpbridge.net/bbtc.htm

http://www.rpbridge.net/rpbr.htm#05 (advanced articles)

 

Karen Walker's Bridge Library

http://www.prairienet.org/bridge/

 

SAYC

http://www.annam.co.uk/sayc01.htm

 

Rainbow SAYC

http://www.firesides.net/sarc.htm

http://www.firesides.net/genrules.htm

(lots of interesting ideas, see links at bottom of his page)

 

Acol by Geoffrey Ostrin

http://www.leeds.ac.uk/union/sports/bridge...html/node1.html

 

Notes on Standard American by Michael Furstner

http://www.jazclass.aust.com/bridge/br0.htm

 

Collections of Links (each of these sites has 100's of links)

 

greatbridgelinks http://www.greatbridgelinks.com/

 

dmoz bridge http://dmoz.org/Games/Card_Games/Trick_Capturing/Bridge/

 

bridgeguys links http://www.bridgeguys.com/PGlossary/Person...geWebsites.html

 

steiner links http://www.trsteiner.de/bridge/en/links.shtml

 

claire links http://www.clairebridge.com/index.html

 

BridgeWorld links http://www.bridgeworld.com/default.asp?d=b...idge_links.html

 

dutch links http://bridge.coolbegin.com/

 

 

Teaching material of BBO BIL teachers

 

Books for sale http://bridgebase.com/clubs/bil/text/books.html

xx1943 http://www.albrecht-hollstein.de/Bridge.htm

sdoty http://www.dartmouth.edu/~bridge/BILNotes.htm

shep http://lsiprelle.simpli.biz/bridgementor/

paulg http://www.pooh-corner.demon.co.uk/paul/bbo/

precision http://bbo.pigpen.org.uk/

 

Conventions

conventions http://www.slospin.net/Duplicate%20Bridge/...ntions_home.htm

 

Books that can be delivered over the internet

Frank Fongasira

http://www.masterbridge.com/order.html

 

Gerard Cohen

http://gerard.entsoft.com/

(but also see http://www.godofthemachine.com/bridge/books.html)

 

Free Bridge Playing Software, "Easy Bridge"

http://www.winsite.com/bin/Info?4500000036163

 

Free Learn Standard American (Fred Gitelman)

http://www.acbl.org/learn/ltpb.html

 

In BBO Forums we also have

FAQ (includes links to book reviews)

http://forums.bridgebase.com/index.php?showtopic=5612

 

Book reviews (Arclight is building up a collection of reviews)

http://forums.bridgebase.com/index.php?showtopic=6478

[pdmunro]

Below are links to articles by top players. The focus is on instructive hands.

 

top players' sites (all with numerous files)

 

stewart http://www.baronbarclay.com/sheinwold/SHEINWOL.html

lawrence http://www.michaelslawrence.com/Articles/Article.html

migry http://www.migry.com/home_page.htm (use her sitemap)

cohen http://www.larryco.com/localarticles.htm

pavlicek http://www.rpbridge.net/rpbr.htm#05

 

Kantar (recently redone)

http://www.kantarbridge.com/test_your_defense.htm

http://www.kantarbridge.com/test_your_play.htm

 

goldsmith http://www.gg.caltech.edu/~jeff/ (see Bridge Problems, 3/4 of way down the page)

 

gitelman

http://www.bridgebase.com/dotw/dotwlin.html (you can download .lin "deal of the week" files)

http://www.bridgebase.com/articles/index.html

 

 

collections of lin files

 

deal of the week http://www.bridgebase.com/dotw/dotwlin.html (download.lin files)

paulg http://www.pooh-corner.demon.co.uk/paul/bbo/ (commentary in separate "chat log" file)

 

collection of Kaplan comments (hints for today's vugraph commentators)

http://www.sarantakos.com/bridge/kapnuggets.htm

 

Buy educational software by top players through BBO

http://www.bridgebase.com

 

And see Interesting Bridge Hands in this forum

[Gerben42]

Greg Matula's Book on Polish Club can be bought at Jannersten. I'm not sure but I think some other books are available as E-Books as well.

 

To nickf: It is possible to sell your books as E-Books. In principle more people could print them out, but I could also take your book to a copyshop now. For both methods this is not necessarily a very cheap way to get a nice book. There will ALWAYS be a market for real books.