NEW BIDDING FORUM CLINIC COURSE $49

10 bidding lessons by email. Each lesson includes two parts:

1) A ten-question bidding quiz. Each subscriber is invited to send in (by email) his or her answers along with comments and system suggestions.
2) The solutions to the quiz will be sent a week later along with selected forum chat and ten new questions.

101 - LEARN BRIDGE WITH LARRY KING - $49
LEVEL: BEGINNER

This course begins with the assumption that you know nothing whatsoever about the game. Taught by tennis promoter Larry King, the course is very friendly and includes his ex-wife, Billie Jean King, and Martina Navratilova, as fellow students.

You'll learn how to play the game, some of the basic strategies, and how to keep score. This is an excellent refresher course as well if you once played and need a good review. Includes a complete Glossary of bridge terms.

102 - BIDDING WITH PAUL SOLOWAY - $49
LEVEL: BEGINNER

This course explains how to bid a bridge hand, starting with the basic concepts and developing into bidding sequences with your partner. Paul Soloway, one of our all-time great players, uses the point-count method and the most popular Standard American system, but tempers it with bidding judgment.

Where are your highcard points? Are they good points or bad points? How does the auction change the value of your hand? By the conclusion of the course, the student should be able to sit at the bridge table with any partner and bid with proficiency. This is another excellent refresher course.

103 -PLAY OF THE HAND WITH ROSELYN TEUKOLSKY- $49
LEVEL: BEGINNER

This course is designed to teach basic card-play technique, but with an emphasis on planning. When the dummy comes down, what should your thought-processes be? How do you decide which suit to attack first? Pull trump? Develop tricks?

Teukolsky, a high school math teacher and bridge columnist, teaches the student how to make order out of chaos by focusing on the goal: to make the contract.

104 - DEFENSE WITH DAVID HUGGETT - $49
LEVEL: BEGINNER

To become a good bridge player, you must be able to defend well. Your object is to defeat declarer. You and your partner must take a specific number of tricks, depending on the contract.

How can you do it? What is your opening lead? How do you plan your defense while looking only at your hand and the dummy? London's David Huggett presents a step-by-step guide to the practical concepts for defenders at the bridge table.

105 - CONVENTIONS WITH PAMELA GRANOVETTER - $49
LEVEL: INTERMEDIATE

This course teaches the student all about bidding conventions. Pamela Granovetter, author of the book, Conventions at a Glance, explains the most important and useful conventions used in the game today.

Many players misuse conventions and this course is designed to make conventions more easily understood -- when to apply them and how to get the most from them.

Begin with Blackwood, Stayman, and move up to more advanced conventions such as Cuebids, Jacoby Transfers, Negative doubles and more. Beautiful and clear illustrations for all the conventions taught.

110 - PREEMPTS WITH THE GRANOVETTERS - $49
LEVEL: INTERMEDIATE

Everything you wanted to know about how to make life miserable for your opponents, but at the same time using common sense and learning when NOT to preempt.

140 - COUNTING WITH EDDIE KANTAR- $49
LEVEL: INTERMEDIATE

This course, by America's favorite bridge teacher, is the first of its kind.

To play a bridge hand, you must become a counter -- counting high card points in the opponents's hands and counting the cards played in each suit may seem like a difficult task. But Kantar makes it look easy! Learn to form a mental pictureof the hands and you'll become a declarer that your partners will be proud of. This course is a great confidence booster as well, because once you startcounting, all the other declarer play concepts become easier.

150 - BRIDGE STRATEGIES WITH MATTHEW GRANOVETTER - $49 LEVEL: INTERMEDIATE

The editor of Bridge Today Magazine takes you into the world of strategic thinking. Sometimes the obvious is not so obvious.

Here are many tricks of the trade to help you fool your opponents (without fooling your partner). Make yourself into a feared opponent (while remaininga trustworthy fellow). Strategies include bidding, play and defense ideas, easily applicable and the teacher helps you realize when to apply them.

190 - SWITCH IN TIME DEFENSE WITH THE GRANOVETTERS - $120 LEVEL: INTERMEDIATE

From the authors of the best-selling book, A Switch in Time, here is the complete structure (and more) of how to signal at trick one and thereafter.

Use this course with your partner to help you take all your tricks on defense.

195 - OPENING LEADS WITH THE GRANOVETTERS - $49
LEVEL: INTERMEDIATE

Getting off to a good start - opening leads. Topics include:
1. Bread-and-butter leads.
2. Trump leads.
3. Don't lead aces! (except sometimes)
4. Leading partner's suit ... or not.
5. Leading short suits.
6. Leads against part-scores vs. leads against games.
7. Short-suit leads vs. long-suit leads.
8. Safe leads vs. aggressive leads.

201 - COMPETITIVE BIDDING AND THE LAW WITH LARRY COHEN - $49 LEVEL: ADVANCED

Competitive bidding means that all four players are competing for the contract. At a crucial point in the auction, you must decide whether to bid again or let the opponents buy the contract.

This course is about this crucial point. Larry Cohen, a 10-time National Champion, teaches the theory and application of the most exciting bridge aid since point-count bidding: The Law of Total Tricks. Cohen begins from scratch, explaining the theory, and then tests you with quizzes to demonstrate how to apply the idea in various competitive bidding situations.

202 - PLAY OF THE HAND WITH MARSHALL MILES - $49
LEVEL: ADVANCED


This course is designed for fairly competent players who want to improve their skills at declarer play. Marshall Miles is the author of the all-time classic, All 52 Cards.

In this course, he teaches various aspects of declarer thought-processes. Subject matter includes: assumptions, avoidance plays, squeezes, trump management and percentages. This course is designed especially for duplicate and tournament players who need to work on their card play.

203 - HAND STUDY WITH MATTHEW GRANOVETTER - $49
LEVEL: ADVANCED

One of the best ways to improve your game is to study hands that have already been played. Matthew Granovetter, the editor of Bridge Today Magazine, takes you into the world of hand study in a way you never dreamed of.

The hands are presented as bridge movies, with questions and answers as the bidding and play proceed to the hands' conclusion. Then the hands are analyzed in full view of all the cards.

See what would have worked, where the crucial bid or play was, and what you should think about when you face similar problems at the table.