The New York Times Bridge Book: An Anecdotal History of the Development, Personalities, and Strategies of the World's Most Popular Card Game

Book Description
Finally, a book for every bridge fan -- never before has there been a comprehensive history of the game, filled with anecdotes about famous players, key tournaments, strategies, scandals, and a little instruction for good measure. Evolving at some point in the 18th century from a card game known as "whist," bridge has undergone countless variations, and acquired a massive following of clubs and organizations in the ensuing centuries. The New York Times Bridge Book is aimed not only at the bridge-playing community but also an armchair audience fascinated by the role of cardgames in world history.



About the Author
Alan F. Truscott is the bridge columnist for The New York Times. He is also the author, co-author, or illustrator of numerous books such as Common Sense Bidding, Basic Bridge in Three Weeks, The Bidding Dictionary, Bridge Basics, and numerous others.

Dorothy H. Truscott is the author of Bid Better, Play Better, Winning Declarer Play, and a former world champion player.



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Here is a Book for Every Bridge Fan -- the trump card of bridge books! Never before has there been such a comprehensive history of the game, filled with anecdotes about amous players, key tournaments, strategies, scandals, and a little instruction for good measure. The history of bridge spans centuries and continents. Bridge had humble beginnings, played in kitchens by the servants of nobility, but then captivating even the highest classes of society. It has undergone countless variations -- from the early game of "whist" to the prototype version perhaps introduced by British officers in Constantinople during the Crimean War, who had to cross a "bridge" to get to the coffeehouse where they played daily, to today's computerized bridge tournaments. The modern game began in 1925, when a scion of the Vanderbilt family, on a cruise ship in the Panama Canal, laid down the rules that have remained almost unchanged. Famous people -- from Winston Churchill and Dwight Eisenhower to George Burns and Omar Sharif -- have explored the challenges and strategies that he game presents. The New York Times Bridge Book recounts these stories and many more -- a delightful and useful book for anyone who enjoys the world's most companionable game.


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