Squecer Ptay ror AvcrION de Conmmcr Bruvct An' Analysis—By—Robert Rendel. Allen & Unwin, London.
2 Most players understand squeeze play as an up-to-date version of the old-fashioned Vienna Coup, but sur prisingly few have more than a hazy Idea of the difference between the simple, double, triple and backward varieties. Mr. Rendel's useful little work makes all these things clear. It is just the book to guide those moments. when the opponents are. nervously discarding potential win ners and trying to read from the player's face which cards he will use {o establish the last two tricks, The reader is introduced, in simple language, to the elements of squeeze play and carried, step by step, through all Mts aspects' and intricacies, There fare over 70 illustrated tables which fare most helpful in addition to exfercises for the learner, with correct solutions "at the back.
None of the current books of bridge devote more than a cursory chapter to this important aspect of the sam the book should be a welcome ion to the enthusiast's collection of bridge literature.
Bau: Enchanted Isle—By Helen Eva Yates, Allen. & Unwin, London.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.