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Synopsis: A collection
of 13 great essays, designed to challenge the imagination of the expert
bridge player: 1. Roman Keycard Blackwood - Edwin B. Kantar: A quick
guideline to playing this popular slam convention; a list of 37 rules plus
30 example auctions; 2. Make Your Own Relays - by Alan Truscott: You can be
your own bidding inventor. It's easy and it's fun; 3. In-And-Out Valuation -
by Jeff Rubens: Some honor cards are more valuable than others. Are they in
partner's suit or out? 4. Two-Club Rebid Artificial: by Bobby Lipsitz - Ways
for opener to show hand-patterns that are not covered by Standard American
bidding; 5. What Do You Play-and Why? by Alvin Roth and Tobias Stone, a
classic quiz of 22 play problems, detailed with famous players of the past;
6. The Monty Hall Trap: by Phil Martin - Information that the opponents give
you is not the same as information you discover for yourself; 7. For Experts
Only: by Pamela and Matthew Granovetter - Four essays on cardplay designed
to lift the game of the expert and would-be expert. 8. Three Notrump as a
Weak Slam Try: by Kit Woolsey - How to distinguish between serious and
non-serious slam invitations; 9. How to Be a Difficult Opponent: by Terence
Reese - A top declarer wins the first trick with the most ambiguous card he
can; 10. Rediscovering the Forcing Notrump: by Eric Kokish and friends -
Welcome to the world of the forcing notrump in the 21st Century. Here are
new methods for describing responder's hand; 11. Bridge Probabilities: by
Steve Bloom - Are two chances better than one? Not always, says this
mathematics professor; 12. The Other Way: by Martin Hoffman - Sometimes
declarer must play a critical card early, before the defense knows what's
going on; 13. Ethics For Experts: by Michael Rosenberg - Huddles,
non-huddles, slow cards and fast cards all create a dilemma in the world of
bridge ethics
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