Breaking the Bridge Rules: First Hand Play

Rules are made to be broken, and bridge is no exception. The first of a planned four-book series on cardplay, this book deals with situations where the player who is on lead - defender or declarer, at the start of the deal or in the middle - needs to do something that involves ostensibly 'breaking the rules'. Not, obviously, the rules of bridge itself, but the well-tried adages that every player is taught - the rules of thumb that work most of the time. Knowing when to break those rules is one of the marks of an expert player.