Beginner Bridge Lessons - Princeton University

Beginner Bridge LessonsJames SundstromDecember 11, 2010 Contents1 Introduction22 Declarer Play43 Goals of the Auction134 Opening Bids155 The 1NT Opening Bid166 Major Suit Openings227 Minor Suit Openings248 Preempts299 Overcalls341 Chapter 1 IntroductionThis book is intended for complete beginners to learn Bridge . It is assumed thatyou already know the rules of Bridge , but nothing else. This book covers the basicsof bidding and declarer play. Defensive cardplay is largely omitted because it isa more complicated topic than declarer play. You can declare by yourself; whenyou defend, you need to cooperate with your , this is not a typical Beginner book. Throughout the book, I will includemore advanced technical details that would typically be omitted from a beginnertext. Don t let that scare you off the extra details will be marked as such, andyou can easily skip them. (For example, feel free to skip this introduction. But notethat there s a section on notation below, so you may want to refer back here later.)

4, so you can only take three club tricks.) Taking a finesse A finesse is a way of winning a trick with a card, even though the opponents still have a higher card. The classic situation for a finesse is when the dummy has the AQ of a suit, and you have small cards. Lead a small card from your hand, and play the queen.

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