Rodwell Files [Rodwell/Horton]

WINNER - 2011 - International Bridge Press Association Book of the Year

First, Rodwell describes and explains how to analyze a bridge hand: the building blocks of analysis, the thought process, and how to defog when you get bogged down. Then he describes a host of innovative ideas in cardplay, stratagems that can be used as declarer or defender. While top experts will be familiar with some of these, almost all will be new to anyone below the bridge stratosphere.

Finally, under the heading The DOs and DON'Ts of Bridge, Rodwell talks about the mental side of the game: areas where every player often goes wrong in his approach to the problem at hand, areas that mark the key differences between an average player and a successful one.

The first draft of this book has been in existence for more than twenty years, but it is only now that Rodwell is prepared to allow his secrets to become public knowledge.