This book offers club players a variety of suggestions to help them improve their results in both duplicate pairs and IMP events. The 100 tips cover aspects of play, bidding - both the uncontested and the contested auction - and defence. The focus is always on practical approaches, including sensible application of basic principles, good partnership agreements for constructive and obstructive bidding, as well as ways of achieving better co-operation in defence.
Some of the topics include:
forcing the opponents to help you avoid a guess
coping with a bad trump break
bidding to show a fit and a shortage
using a cue bid of the opponent's suit
when and when not to bid one more
off-shape and speculative bids
not giving gifts to declarer
when and when not to be active in defence
better signalling
Almost all of the deals in this book come from real-life club play and the tips are usually presented as an at-the-table problem.
