Contract Bridge for Beginners
Contract bridge book by Charles Goren
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Contract Bridge For Beginners is a book written by Charles Goren on the rules and basic strategies of contract bridge. First published by Simon & Schuster Inc. of New York in 1953[1] and by Eyre & Spottiswoode of London in 1959, each has been reprinted numerous times. The book contains an introduction to the then relatively new bidding system condensed from Goren's historically significant[2] 1947 book Point Count Bidding in Contract Bridge.[3]
1953 cover of 31st printing | |
| Author | Charles Goren |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Genre | Non-fiction |
| Publisher | Simon & Schuster |
Publication date | 1953 |
| Publication place | United States |
Contract Bridge for Beginners is a "competent but unimaginative text" with a bidding system that is "of little practical use today"[4] having been superseded by more modern methods.
