CV19 - Bridge Clubs

[pescetom]

The other thing I learned on resuming bridge, of course, was how much bidding has changed over the course of 50 years or so. I learnt most of my stuff, originally, from the excellent 1960s book by Terence Reese, which I still have, but it's very dated now. It says nothing of transfers, of RKCB, of Negative Doubles, of Ogust, Landy, Michaels, jacoby, UNT, etc. Those things must have emerged later. But I continued to learn!

You should have looked for a more up to date book 50 years ago.

My 1973 book by Terence Reese describes Jacoby and Texas transfers (p187), RKCB (p188), Negative Doubles (p194), Michaels (p196) and UNT (p192).

Alas I only found and read it in 2015 but it still proved useful, particularly in card play.