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Beginning bridge players are taught some of the basic techniques of declarer play: suit establishment, ruffing losers, the finesse, and so forth. The hard part is learning when each applies. There is that terrible moment when the dummy comes down, and the novice declarer has no idea even how to start thinking about the right things. This book, starting from the basics, explains how to make a plan as declarer. The reader learns how to recognize which technique to apply on a given deal, both in notrump contracts and suit contracts. By the end of the book readers will be comfortable with slightly more advanced material, such as entry management and elementary counting.

Barbara Seagram (Toronto) has more than 250,000 copies of her books on bridge in print.  These include the bestselling 25 Bridge Coventions You Should Know and most recently Barbara Seagram’s Beginning Bridge.

David Bird (Southampton, UK), is one of the world’s best-known bridge authors, with more than eighty books to his credit.  Recent titles for MPP include Endplays for Everyone and 25 Ways to be Better Defender (with Barbara Seagram).

"This book is well-designed to give those for whom that time has not hitherto arrived a genuine shot at mastering this art [making a plan], without which no-one can become an effective declarer. It sets out, with numerous instructive examples, set-by-step routines (different for suit and notrump contracts) for formulating a concise plan."
- Sunday Canberra Times

"An easy step-by-step process accessible even by bare-bones beginners. A top pick, highly recommended!"
- Mid-West Book review

"Recommended strongly."
- Anders Brunzell (Göteborgs Posten, Sweden)

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