Product Description

What is 'Standard' Bidding? This is an increasingly hard question to answer, but the proliferation of bridge on the Internet in pickup partnerships makes it imperative that someone does so. Perhaps the most popular natural system for the hundreds of thousands of online players worldwide is the Standard American Yellow Card, or SAYC. In this book, for the first time, SAYC is fully described and explained. This will be an invaluable to aid to anyone wanting to learn and understand SAYC, or anyone who simply knows the basics and is eager to fill in the missing pieces in their repertoire. Ned Downey and Ellen Pomer, the authors, are experienced bridge teachers and partners in the 'Bridge Forum' web site. Ned also teaches bridge via the Swan Games online playing site. Ellen is well-known on the Internet under her handle 'Caitlin', and regularly writes for various magazines on Internet bridge. This title gives basic introduction to the standard bidding conventions used on bridge websites.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #95834 in Books
• Published on: 2005-11
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 175 pages

Customer Reviews

A Wonderful Resource for Bidding
This book has been acclaimed by critics around the world. It has become the new standard for what standard bidding is today. According to expert player and critic Julian Pottage, "A few months ago someone asked me to recommend a good, up-to-date book on standard American bidding. I couldn't think of one and so asked my American friends to do so. After much head scratching the best that anyone could come up with was a Kaplan classic - written 40 years ago! This book fills therefore not a gap in the market but a gaping whole." It is well organized, well researched, with illustrative hands that cover the full specturm of SAYC bidding and conventions. According to Pat Harrington of the American Bridge Teachers Association, "Numerous examples are discussed in a manner that makes it clear that judgment can be a factor in your choice of action...Bidding with SAYC provides me with information on standard bidding that fits into my basic lessons nicely. SAYC... is the accepted bidding system for online play and also a very good start for duplicate bridge players. As well as providing great reference material, the book can be used as a text for a course (or - more likely - courses) in SAYC." And according to expert player and prolific bridge writer Marty Bergen, "Online bridge is here to stay, as is the Standard American Yellow Card (SAYC). Acclaimed teachers Ellen Caitlin Pomer and Ned Downey do a great job of explaining what SAYC is all about." What more can I say. Order it NOW!