Product Description

To bid or not to bid -- the perennial dilemma in competitive auctions. The easy answer to the question lies in the correct use of the Law of Total Tricks. The LAW has been part of bridge literature since the 1950s, but it was in this book that Larry Cohen brought it to the attention of the majority of bridge players. Still the most lucid explanation of the LAW ever published, this is a book that every bridge player needs to own, to read, to re-read, and to study in order to improve his results.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #190874 in Books
• Published on: 2002-12-31
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 240 pages

From the Author
Complete explanation of the Law of Total Tricks
This is the best-selling bridge book of the 1990's. It starts at the very beginning and explains what the Law of Total Tricks is, and how to use it while bidding a bridge hand.

Customer Reviews

How can you do better?
If your bridge library were extremely small, one MUST item would be The Law of Total Tricks. It's a gem, one that will change the way you think at bridge and one that will help you make those tough part-score and higher competitive decisions which are ordinarily such "guess work". This book will help you evaluate your bidding options with much greater assurance and accuracy.

A Modern Classic
The law of total tricks has been around for about 40 years, but it's never been as thoroughly and completely explained as in this book. Cohen shows how the law should be used to resolve your competitive bidding decisions and to make the opponents' life more difficult. He also shows how modern bidding, and how the conventions he developed with Marty Bergen, try to give your partnership the information you need to make total trick decisions. Simply the best book on the subject.

Intermediates and upwards should really read this book
I class myself as intermediate-to-expert. I'd never heard of the Law of Total Tricks. I'd never had a complete system for competitive bidding - my partner and I just played it by ear if the opposition started bidding.

Stimulated by a superb book by Paul Mendelson (you should be able to hyperlink to it by looking at my reviews) I finally found this book - what I thought must exist somewhere - a full strategy for competitive bidding.

After reading about 20 pages I recognised it as the 'competitive' bible - to go alongside my favourite Acol book. Beware - there are some who don't believe that the 'Law' works. They've written a book called 'I Fought the Law'. I investigated that but ploughed on regardless.

The Law is for me. The book is well-written, easy to understand and 'user-friendly'. The style can't be faulted. The system doesn't work 100% of the time, but what bidding system does? In addition to providing a strategy, it vastly improves your understanding of what's going on during competitive auctions.

Buy it. (Then get Paul Mendelson's book as well)