{"product_id":"constructive-bidding-402-9781771402439","title":"Constructive Bidding 402","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis book is a follow-up to Constructive Bidding 401, which introduced the teamwork and structure needed for a complete bidding system. Together, the two books provide advancing partnerships a complete and consistent framework in the form of a bidding system for competition in stratified tournaments at higher levels.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBook Two begins with opener's rebids and progresses to slam bidding. The book finishes a discussion on the strategy required for matchpoints and IMPs. Two Over One bids and Forcing 1NT are a small component of this bidding system. Of greater importance is the need to define and manage a broad range of bidding situations in a predictable fashion. While discussion on Two Over One is complete, it is a small portion of the total content and the focus is on a complete system.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePatterned after a college text book, concepts are presented, explained and then detailed in a tabular format. A summary and quiz following each major section develops the reader's understanding. The quizzes in both books contain more than 450 question and answers.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePaul, Stephen:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - STEPHEN PAUL (CALGARY) is an avid club player and long time student. Retirement from a successful engineering career afforded the time to pursue a fascination with competitive duplicate bridge. He is a firm believer that lasting success requires great teamwork, well defined partnership agreements, and the support of understanding friends and family.","brand":"Master Point Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50922831806738,"sku":"9781771402439","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_e6f10321-7502-482f-b3a9-054b0c32a800.jpg?v=1738941195","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/constructive-bidding-402-9781771402439","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}