How to Play Winning Bridge

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For bridgé players and bridge students: The Kaplan-Sheinwold System and how to use it most effectively
'The bidding system we present here is designed for two-way action: to harass the enemy on losing hands; to reach a maximum contract with accuracy and comfort on Vi/inning hands. We accomplish this by applying two underlying principles —
1. Every Sequence of Bids Must. Have a Nar-roviy Defined Meaning.
This is to rob the opponents of bidding room on our offensive auctions, enabling us to be sure at all times of just whiat partner means by every bid. We start with narrowly defined opening bids and extend this greater precision to all our bidding.
2. Where Safety Permits, High Bids Must Be Used to Describe Weaker Hands, Low Bids to Describe Stronger Hands.
This is to rob the opponents of bidding room on competitive auctions, while leaving cur-selves all possible space for delicate investigation when the hand clearly 'belongs' to us." — From the Foreword by Edgar Kaplan and... Tovább

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For bridgé players and bridge students: The Kaplan-Sheinwold System and how to use it most effectively
'The bidding system we present here is designed for two-way action: to harass the enemy on losing hands; to reach a maximum contract with accuracy and comfort on Vi/inning hands. We accomplish this by applying two underlying principles —
1. Every Sequence of Bids Must. Have a Nar-roviy Defined Meaning.
This is to rob the opponents of bidding room on our offensive auctions, enabling us to be sure at all times of just whiat partner means by every bid. We start with narrowly defined opening bids and extend this greater precision to all our bidding.
2. Where Safety Permits, High Bids Must Be Used to Describe Weaker Hands, Low Bids to Describe Stronger Hands.
This is to rob the opponents of bidding room on competitive auctions, while leaving cur-selves all possible space for delicate investigation when the hand clearly 'belongs' to us." — From the Foreword by Edgar Kaplan and Alfred Sheinwold
"To teach bridge, one should be a good player, a good writer, and a good teacher. These don't always go together — in fact, they ° very sëldom do. But the Sheinwold-Kaplan
combination combines them. Alfred Sheinwold has long been recognized as a leader among bridge writers, as those who read his newspaper articles and his books already know. Edgar Kaplan is a member of the distinguished faculty of the Card School in New York. Their record as players speaks for itself . . [They] finished one-two in the annual race for the master-point championship of the United States."
- Albert H. Morehead Bridge Editor, The New York Times
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