Bridge For Dummies (For Dummies (Sports & Hobbies))

The second problem I have is the way hands are displayed. Hands are illustrated with tiny, badly printed card images, with no colors. So Hearts are hard to distinguish from Spades and Kings look alot like Jacks.


very readable   July 6, 1999
 15 out of 17 found this review helpful

Before I bought this book, I could not imagine that a bridge instruction book can be written in such a fun and humorous way. And fun is not the only element this book can offer, it really teaches a beginner well how to play bridge. I strongly recommend this one to everybody who tries to learn playing bridge.


Excellent, comprehensive for new/intermediate player   February 28, 1998
 16 out of 16 found this review helpful

Bridge is hard, but Kantar is here to help! Kantar has already written some of the best bridge books around. Here, he covers the three fundamental aspects with style: bidding, declarer play and defense. A terrific accomplishment to prune, compact and explain all bridge aspects into a work suitable for a brand new player, but even the intermediate or intermediate-plus player will benefit (basic stuff is easily skipped). Treatment is accessible and he makes judgments on what should be "standard American style" that in the end will help the new or intermediate player (e.g. treating limit major raises as "standard") avoid the confusion that can result from debates over the "best" conventions. He shields the reader from these complexities while explaining and coordinating the basic concepts. This book could have easily been five times as long, and it is a tribute to Kantar that it was not. Kantar shows once again that he, along with the incomparable Bill Root, is one of America's foremost bridge teachers and authors.