[Rossoneri]

Any good books/websites on this?

[Gerben42]

How to read opponent's cards (Mike Lawrence)

[ArcLight]

Hand Reading in Bridge - Roth, Danny
Countdown to Winning Bridge - Bourke, Tim & Marc Smith
Dormer on Deduction -   Dormer, Albert
Card reading; the art of guessing right at the bridge table - Jannersten, Eric
Card Placing for you - Kambites, Andrew
Logical Bridge Play  - Kelsey, Hugh
How to Read your opponents cards - Lawrence, Mike
Inferences at Bridge  - Miles,Marshall
All 52 Cards  - Miles, Marshall
Better bridge for the advancing player - Stewart, Frank
also Frank Stewarts Winning defense for the Advancing Player


Mike Lawrence also has 2 EXCELLENT CDS
Counting at Bridge vol 1 & 2

[kenrexford]

http://www.facade.com/

An excellent source. And, maybe even better in practice than the other suggestions.

[dcvetkov]

Countdown to better bridge
Great book by Hugh Kelsey

Clearly explained concepts, forcing you to think and count, count, and then count some more.

I got it from library , probably its a rare find

[Rossoneri]

kenrexford, on May 3 2007, 11:30 PM, said:

http://www.facade.com/

An excellent source. And, maybe even better in practice than the other suggestions.

Are you kidding?

[han]

I don't know Justin, you are taking quite a position.

[kenrexford]

Jlall, on May 4 2007, 11:41 PM, said:

Rossoneri, on May 4 2007, 10:19 PM, said:

kenrexford, on May 3 2007, 11:30 PM, said:

http://www.facade.com/

An excellent source.  And, maybe even better in practice than the other suggestions.

Are you kidding?

I'm going to go out on a limb and say yes

No, really. I've found that it is much more useful to actually read the messages from the cards that I have rather than using some esoteric mathematical analysis by some supposed pseudo-expert.

An example. http://www.metasymbology.com/Templates/car...neofspades.html

According to this site, the nine of spades is "Nervous, romantic, unconventional - the 9 of Spades people can turn all these qualities into working assets and they do when they use their talents for service and concern themselves with the world at large."

The other day, I held a number of hands with the nine of spades as a feature. I loved each of my hands, despite the obvious flaws (romantic). I had reason for concern as to the bid I was about to make (nervous). I had, amazingly, an unorthodox approach to the bidding up to the decision point (unconventional).

So, I used allo of these qualities into "working assets" to plat the hands well (talents for service), two times on a complicated squeeze "concerning my thoughts with the woruld at the table, hence "at large.")

Had I used Losing Trick Count, Work's point count, Goren, or whatever, I would not have valued my hand as high, because I would have given the nine of spades any value. Had I used standard bidding, same problem.

Obviously, we all need to remember that we are playing not just with numerical designations, but with CARDS. Read them for the messages they send.

[Rossoneri]

LOL. Methinks my thread title was too vague for ken