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Softcover in good condition. Published 2002 by Griffin Publishing. For details on the contents see the digital edition.

Softcover in good condition. Published 2002 by Griffin Publishing. For details on the contents see the digital edition.

This encyclopedia is the essential, all-inclusive guide to card playing. Here is everything you ever wanted to know about the histories and variations of the world's most popular card games:

• Draw Poker & Stud Poker
• Bridge, Whist & Euchre
• Canasta, Pinochle, Cribbage, Hearts & All-Fours
• Baccarat, Chemin de Fer, Card Craps, Quince, Black Jack, Faro, Monte & Bezique
• Solitaire, Old Maid & Others

Cranium Conundrums is an ebook of 66 logic puzzles with two convenient features, which are rarely found in other books of puzzles: ranked by difficulty, a clue.

Difficulty: Every puzzle comes with a difficulty measured in time. It estimates the time an average person would need to solve the puzzle. This is a great way to select which puzzles you want to work on. Of course, the difficulty measure will only be accurate on average. If you are a savvy puzzle solver you will probably find the solution faster. If this is your first book of puzzles you will probably need to schedule a bit more time...

More brain teasers ranked by difficulty and with an optional clue to get you a step closer to the solution if you need it.

This is volume 2 in Max Ödlund's series of brain teasers and logic puzzles. (Volume 1 is Cranium Conundrums.) Each of the 80 puzzles has a difficulty ranging from 1 = easy to 5 = extremely difficult. Some problems are marked ’s’ for ’silly’. Puzzles in the 1-3 or s category are generally speaking solvable in a few minutes of thinking or a bit of scribbling and drawing on a piece of paper. Should you not find the solution then each puzzle has a clue on the following page. This...

Timothy Hyde has been a puzzle fan all his life.

For pure enjoyment and challenge there is nothing like a great puzzle. They extend our minds, force us to look at things in different ways and provide a great stimulus for creative and innovative thought.

Timothy has been lucky that over the years he has been able to use a range of different puzzles in his own performances, keynote presentations and creative thinking workshops. He has been commissioned in the past to design specific Puzzle Challenges for many companies including KFC & Pizza Hut. He is now making 19 of his favourite puzzles...

This ebook includes 114 very practical tips on a variety of subjects with practical, easy to digest examples.

13. 1. Getting Off On the Right Foot
23. 2. Hand Evaluation
33. 3. Opener's Decisions
43. 4. Responder's Decisions
53. 5. Notrump Bidding
65. 6. All About Slam
75. 7. Passed Hand Bidding
83. 8. Preempts - We Do It
95. 9. Preempts - They Do It
105. 10. Competitive Auctions
117. 11. I'll Have a Double
129. 12. Impressive Declarer Play
143. 13. The Defense Never Rests
153. Glossary
159. Recommended Reading

John Scarne invented many games. None had any lasting success, although many of them a very clever inventions. This is a collection of games with dice.

From the back cover:

A vast collection of the latest and best conundrums gathered from all sources. Including four hundred riddles, questions in science, mathematical and practical puzzles, acrostics, etc.

• Introduction
• Conundrums
• Aphorisms
• Riddles
• Biographical Riddles
• Bible Riddles
• Golden Texts From Shakespeare
• Kissing Riddles
• Questions In Science
• Puzzles In Spelling
• Gymnastics For The Tongue
• Mathematical And Practical Puzzles
• Lying Figures
• Lame Logic
• Musical Catechism
• Palindromes
• Acrostic
• Squaring A Word
• A Curiosity
• A Poem By Twenty Poets
• Playing With Puns
• A Reading Puzzle

A nicely produced collection of mostly puzzles, brainteasers, and some which could be performed as magic tricks. In total there are 36 problems. Solutions are provided for all of them.

1st edition 1896, 12 pages of problems, 2 pages of answers.

Containing all the leading conundrums of the day, amusing riddles, curious catches, and witty sayings.

1st edition 1900, 60 pages; PDF 79 pages.

The sequel to the bridge book of the year 1996.

• ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
• INTRODUCTION - THE MAKING OF A SEQUEL
• CHAPTER 1 - POINTS SCHMOINTS! REVISITED
  • Mastering Points Schmoints!
  • The Return of The Rule of 20
  • Arlene Counts 'Em Up
  • Do Experts Apply The Rule of 20?
• CHAPTER 2 - SIZING UP THE HAND
  • The Truth About Honors
  • The Real Truth About Distribution
  • Take a Second Look
  • Quick Tricks - Out of Fashion?
  • She Does Not Go Both Ways
  • The Good, the Fair...
• CHAPTER 3 - RESPONDER TAKES CENTER STAGE
  • Predicting Responder's First Bid
  • Zeroing in on 1NT Forcing
  • Bergen Raises
  • Drury - Anything...

This is a book on creative, innovative and unusual openings. Prof. Hoffmann writes in the introduction "With the courage of his opinion, Mr. Bird has decided to embody these tabooed openings and games arising from them in an independent volume. Here in black and white he has set down the heterodoxies of which he is accused, and he submits them to the judgment not alone of critics who have pinned their faith to certain special lines of play, but to that of the whole Chess world."

1st edition, 1895; 344 pages.

7. Preface
15. Introduction by Professor Hoffman
24. Preliminary Remarks
27. As to Originality of Invention ...

This ebook gives you the winning principles of chess in clear, short statements. Three-times U.S. Champion Lev Alburt and World Chess Hall of Fame Curator Al Lawrence have put together three centuries of insights from the masters. Fun to browse or to read from cover-to-cover, it's a book that all chess players, from beginners to grandmasters, will enjoy for a lifetime.

Backed up with diagrams and illustrations to help you remember key principles, a glossary of essential chess terms and a rundown on all major openings, Chess Rules of Thumbs will improve your chess play. And it's great fun...

From the back cover:

The Great Bridge Conspiracy ebook chronicles the espionage and card playing exploits of Captain Diggery Piper -- a flamboyant expert first created by Terry Quinn for a serial in Games Magazine. Just as Carroll's Through the Looking Glass and Nabokov's The Defense are structured in accordance with the rules and logic of chess, so Quinn has patterned the action of this swift-paced, suspenseful tale on the psychological intricacies of bridge, craftily building a house of cards that tumbles into a surprise ending.

1st edition 1979; 208 pages.

"The hands are 'provocative' in the sense that they will, or at least ought to, provoke the reader to use his or her brains." - Bridge Plus

Here is the most complete, most authoritative reference ebook on games available. Just about every game you can think of - in all, more than 1000 games and their variations - is described, together with the latest rules and easy-to-follow instructions. And to add to your enjoyment, here are hundreds of play-to-win tips from John Scarne, the famous authority on games and gambling.

In the more than 600 double-column, oversize pages you will find many old favorites as well as newly invented games including gambling games, variations of solitaire, social games, board games, and parlor games to...

How to win at Poker, Gin, Pinochle, Blackjack and many other games.

Scarne on Cards is not only a fundamental reference and rule ebook; it is a dependable guide for anyone who wants to avoid being victimized by cheating and sharp practice, and for anyone who wants to play a better game and thereby improve his chances of winning.

"John Scarne is to games what Dr. Einstein is to advanced physics." - John Lardner, in Newsweek

"John Scarne is the most expert exponent of wonderful card effects and table work that I have ever seen in my life." - Nate Leipzig

"John Scarne's one-man expose...

The 3rd international chess tournament in Monte Carlo was held from 10th February to 17th March 1903. World champion Lasker did not take part; he had just taken up residence in St. Louis, USA, as assistant professor of mathematics. Because of various disputes with the tournament management, Gunsberg, Janowski and Tschigorin had been disqualified.

Playing were the Hungarian Maroczy, the winner of the 1902 Monte Carlo tournament; the American champions Marshall and Pillsbury; the Viennese Marco, Schlechter and Wolf; the Englishmen Mason and Teichmann; Albin, Moreau and Taubenhaus from Paris;...

One of the finest chess books ever written, now in the revised algebraic edition. The author expounds both the basic principles and the most complex forms of attack on the king.

[Note: This ebook is in ChessBase format. You will need ChessBase, the free version ChessBase Light, or any other chess software which can read the CBV format (Fritz, Shredder, Junior). Remember that ChessBase and ChessBase Light do export to PGN.]

1st edtion 1998

This is a 10" x 10" chess board (square size is 1 1/4"). The overall size of the silicone sheet is 10 1/4". There is no alphanumeric notation on the border. (If you do need it simply take a Sharpie and add it yourself.)

The primary advantage of this small roll up chess board is mobility. The no-memory-effect silicone material allows you to roll it tightly, fold it, or just squeeze it together anyway you like, and still have the board open flat and stay flat instantly. The problem with vinyl boards is that they tend to roll up by themselves particularly if stored for longer time in a rolled...

The American Bridge Series is designed as a sequential set of bidding courses, suitable for self-study or classroom-style study under the guidance of a professional bridge teacher. Volumes I through III include declarer play and defense skills as they relate to the bidding skills taught in each text. Volume IV is reserved for true experts; thus, declarer play and defense lessons would be an insult and are not included. The entire series takes about five years of study and practice to complete.

Volume I, The Basic American Bidding System, was written for beginners and for social players who...

La série américaine de Bridge

La série américaine de bridge est un ensemble de cours successifs sur les enchères. Elle est adaptée à l’apprentissage autodidacte ou de classe sous la supervision d’un enseignant de bridge professionnel. Les volumes I à III incluent des notions de jeu de déclarant et de défense qui sont reliées aux niveaux d’enchères enseignés dans chaque livre. Le volume IV est réservé aux vrais experts ; par conséquent, les leçons de jeu de déclarant et de défense n’ont pas été incluses car cela serait une insulte. La série complète nécessite...