[zasanya]

Badmonster, on Aug 28 2007, 07:23 PM, said:

kenrexford, on Aug 28 2007, 01:55 PM, said:

Quantumcat, on Aug 27 2007, 04:27 AM, said:

That's all well and good but probably what that person meant is that beginner/intermediates need...

A beginner/intermediate is not the same as an advancing intermediate. I have never read anything in any bridge book that is too complicated for an advancing intermediate.

I hope that I haven't misrepresented. I think I'm an advancing intermediate, but many books feel way over my head. Maybe I'm an intermediate, intermediate hoping to advance.

Curious to know which books you think are 'way over your head' . Could you name a few?

[jtfanclub]

zasanya, on Aug 29 2007, 12:08 PM, said:

Curious to know which books you think are 'way over your head' . Could you name a few?

I can only get about two thirds of the way through 'how to defend a bridge hand'. I've been told that I'm good at performing squeezes, but I still wouldn't recognize most of them if I bumped into them on the street.

[EricK]

The book which improved my game more than any other single book is "Step by Step Discarding" by Danny Roth. The number of contracts (or at MP, overtricks) which are thrown away by poor discarding is phenomenal. Get this right and watch your results shoot up!

[ralph23]

jtfanclub, on Aug 29 2007, 12:15 PM, said:

zasanya, on Aug 29 2007, 12:08 PM, said:

Curious to know which books you think are 'way over your head' . Could you name a few?

I can only get about two thirds of the way through 'how to defend a bridge hand'. I've been told that I'm good at performing squeezes, but I still wouldn't recognize most of them if I bumped into them on the street.

Love's Bridge Squeezes Complete (is that the exact right name of it?) is an incredibly good book and imo a true classic, but it's hard for an advancing intermediate imho, especially the later and more esoteric chapters.

The Reese book on squeezes is considerably more accessible.

The Kelsey books on defense (Killing Defence etc.) are superb and some of the best bridge books ever written, and the example hands are so very instructive, but it's also a bit inaccessible imo for the advancing intermediate. Root and Kantar are better places to start for the intermediate imo.