Principle of Restricted Talent [Kleinman/Straguzzi]

WINNER - 2005 - International Bridge Press Association Book of the Year

The stories draw unmercifully funny portraits of human bridge players as Chthonic's bridge brilliance and abrasive and ill-concealed contempt for his human creators leave them all in his wake.

A particular target is the pompous Director of the Cybernetics Research Institute whose opinion of his own bridge expertise differs greatly from that of his prodigy.

Some of these stories have appeared in The Bridge World magazine where the characters are established as firm reader favorites.