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Hello BBO Friends,

We are delighted to offer BridgeHands listeners a three interview sessions with Gerry Fox, a Bridge cruise director super-agent, teaching professional for over 30 years and book author.

In our first session, Gerry shares wonderful stories about how to deal with Bridge teacher-student misunderstandings, difficult Bridge concepts and methods to make breakthroughs, converting a challenging student to “staight man”, counteracting crafty duplicate Bridge players, the importance of partnership harmony and trust, and benefits of understanding versus memorization.

In our second session, Gerry continues discussing the importance of partnership harmony and trust, why bidding is easier to learn than play (especially count signals), why students often go wrong learning conventions, Gerry creation - The Rule of Seven, overcoming newcomers fear opening Notrump with a worthless doubleton, how teachers ears can make a big difference, the future of Bridge, Gerry discusses his Bridge books (order via phone at 707-252-1257 or EMAIL gfoxbridge@aol.com):

Partnership Bridge - An Easy Guide to Standard American Bidding
Partnership Defence - An Easy Guide to Defender’s Play at Contract Bridge
Tricks for the Taking - An Easy Guide to Declarer’s Play at Contract Bridge
Contract Bridge in 28 Lessons - A Manual for Teachers
Bridge in Brief - A Shortcut Through the Rules of Bidding (With Opening Leads, Too)

Stay tuned for the third audiocast where Gerry discussed teaching and directing Bridge on the high-seas.

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Warm Regards,

Michael Nistler
BridgeHands

[AlexOgan]

BridgeHands, on Apr 16 2007, 02:21 PM, said:

...counteracting crafty duplicate Bridge players...

Heh.