Whether you are just setting out to discover the wonderful game of bridge, or have played for some time, your success will be limited without a sound understanding of the basic techniques of cardplay.


In this series, two of the game's top writers explain clearly the various cardplay skills that you will need. Every booklet contains six chapters - each ending with a short Quiz.


The topics covered in this third book, on Discarding Losers, are:

• Discarding to reduce the loser total
• Should I draw trumps immediately?
• Establishing discards
• Loser on loser play
• Combining different chances
• Planning the necessary discards