"In Partnership Bidding, Mary Paul (one of the World Bridge Federation's leading master point holders) reveals the partnership techniques used by the world's best players to prepare for competition. By working through the questionnaire in this book with your partner, you will be able to refine your bidding system, select conventions that suit your style, define your defensive carding agreements, and give your game that winning edge. All players from intermediate to advanced who are serious about improving their game will learn from this unique workbook."--Back cover.

By working through the questionnaires in this book with their partner, readers will be able to refine their bidding system, select conventions and agreements that suit their style, define their defensive carding agreements, and give their game a winning edge. The first book ever published by Master Point Press, Partnership Bidding had been revised and updated to include today's bidding methods.

Are you tired of learning/teaching bridge from a cookbook? Tired of memorizing how many points you need to bid this or that? Do you have trouble determining if you have a minimum, medium or maximum hand and what you are supposed to do if it fits in a particular category? Then Yes, No or Maybe is what you need. This is a series of three textbooks and companion workbooks for beginning bridge students. The series uses a logical paradigm for making bidding decisions by formulating two basic questions: 'Do we have a fit in a major suit?' and 'Do we want to be in a game contract?' All partnership bidding after an opening bid or intervention is guided by the answers (Yes, No or Maybe) to these questions and some fundamental bidding guidelines. This workbook accompanies More Bidding Basics, in which the student learns about balancing, several conventions (Stayman, Jacoby transfers, negative doubles, fourth suit forcing, new minor forcing), strong opening bids, preemptive opening bids and overcalls, game tries, slam bidding (direct, Blackwood, Gerber, control bidding) and opening the bidding in third or fourth chair. The 'Yes, No or Maybe' philosophy is carried through into these somewhat advanced bidding scenarios. With regard to slam bidding, a new question is posed: "Do we want to be in a slam contract?" I only wish that such a book had existed when I was starting out. Barbara Seagram Author of 25 Bridge Conventions You Should Know

A follow-up book from the author team that produced the award-winning and best-selling 25 Bridge Conventions You Should Know. Aimed at the same novice/social player audience as their first book, this new title deals with competitive auctions in which the opponents have opened the bidding. This is the most complex area of bridge bidding, and has never up to now been dealt with comprehensively in a book that is understandable for non-experts.

This book is designed to guide your partnership through a discussion of the meaning of bidding sequences BEFORE you get to the bridge table. Standard American and 2/1 systems are described in detail along with many optional conventions, focusing on the areas that require partnership agreements. Going through the checklist will stimulate hours of discussion and provide an organized outline for your agreements above and beyond what will fit on a convention card.

This book covers a popular variation of Standard American bidding methods called Two-Over-One Game Force.