Bridge for Bright Beginners
by Terence Reese
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Author: Terence ReeseEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1973-06-01
ISBN: 0486229424
Number of pages: 151
Publisher: Dover Publications, Inc.
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Book Review: Avoid at all cost
Summary: 1 Stars
I am a 48-year-old Mensa Member, Ivy League graduate CEO who taught himself Chess, four programming languages, became fluent in French at age 30, learned enough of a couple Asian languages at age 40 to get around with the basics - so maybe I'm not Einstein but I am a fairly bright study. This book is awful - in the first hand example there are two mistakes in cards with it calling for cards to be played and then again calls for the same card later in the same hand. I believe that is page 12 or 13 - so not far into things. On the subsequent example it suddenly ends the tradition of telling you how to play card by card and loses any value whatsoever except as a headache inducer.
It would be nice if the light tone it was written in was matched by any semblance of careful proofreading. Very disconcerting and horrible. For example, in the first failed card by card example it tells you to play 3 of Diamonds and then again later in the same example it again tells you to play 3 of Diamonds, causing chaos, confusion and for me, a headache and for my wife total disruption in any sort of udnerstanding while we searched for the already played 3 of Diamonds in the stacks of tricks already played. Happens again soon after and then next example you are left to sort out how to play the 4 different hands on your own with only the goal of not mis-playing them as your guidance.
Avoid this book by all means and shame on the other two reviews.
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