Optimal Hand Evaluation: An Honors Book from Master Point Press - Couverture souple

Darricades, Patrick

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1771402083 ISBN 13 : 9781771402088

Editeur : Master Point Press, 2019

Synopsis

Accurately assess the value of your combined hands

Accurate hand evaluation is critically important to reaching the right contract in bridge. Yet, for over 75 years now, hand evaluation has essentially relied on Milton Work's 4-3-2-1 honor point count -- a count known to be seriously flawed and inaccurate. Even in balanced hands aces are under-valued, queens and jacks are overvalued, tens are not factored in, and distribution and fit are barely considered.

All in all, this method gives a very unsatisfactory, inaccurate point count that leads, too often, to the wrong contract.

In this book, the author addresses these flaws by applying corrections to the 4-3-2-1 honor point count and Goren's distribution point count, and introduces revolutionary new findings that lead to much more accurate hand evaluation. Most importantly, this new Optimal hand evaluation accurately assesses the value of both hands combined, the true test of hand evaluation.

Over 100 example hands clearly establish that the Work/Goren point count is simply erroneous and that various other more modern methods do not offer a better alternative. Reading this book will let you be the judge, and applying the Optimal point count is sure to substantially improve your bidding.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

PATRICK DARRICADES (Niagara Falls, Ontario) learned to play bridge as a teenager, but quickly became more interested in the theory of the game rather than in playing it. His studies of the statistical work of J-R. Vernes (which formed the basis for the Law of Total Tricks) led to his work on hand evaluation, and the present book.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Master Point Press
• Date d'édition: 2019
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1771402083
• ISBN 13: 9781771402088
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 158
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible