Strong Notrump and Five-card Majors – Andrew Robson

Description

Strong Notrump and Five-card Majors

Your may ask “Why has Andrew written a book on Strong Notrump and Five-card Majors when his basic teaching method is, and will remain, Four-card-Major Weak Notrump British Acol?”

During the height of the Covid-19 pandemic, everybody started to play lots of Bridge online. It was within this context that more and more people encountered the Strong Notrump and Five-card Majors bidding system. This is understandable as it is the standard international system. Many players since have wanted to switch systems, or at least to understand what Strong and Fives is all about. Using or understanding a different system will definitely make you a more versatile and accomplished player.

The aim of this book is to teach players a really effective game of Strong and Fives. For most of Andrew’s top-level bridge-playing career of over 35 years, he has played Strong and Fives. Of all the bridge teachers, he is in a very good position to teach the key bells and whistles of the system.

All players with a good grasp of the game already will learn a lot from reading this book, even if you are already an experienced Strong and Fives player. You’ll learn lots about card-play too.

Strong Notrump and Five-Card Majors Arrow Cards by Andrew Robson

How to Use the Arrow Cards

The arrow cards enable you to play carefully selected deals from the book. To generate the first deal, the dealer follows the top left arrow on the back of each card; the card is given to the player to whom the arrow points. For subsequent deals follow another set of arrows, rotating the dealer. As ever the dealer is first to call. Bid and play out the deal, then look at the corresponding deal number in the book to see how you fared. Purchase either the book, the Arrow Cards, or both together.

Andrew Robson

Most people widely regard Andrew Robson as one of the finest Bridge player/teacher/writers in the world today. When not at his Club, Andrew travels the country, inspiring thousands at the many Charity functions and Master Classes he leads.

As a player, Andrew won the world Junior Championships in 1989.  He also won the European Championships in 1991. The list of tournament successes during and since is too long to list. He won the Silver Medal in the 2004 World Individual, heartbreakingly moving out of Gold on the very last deal (but that’s another story…).

As a writer, Andrew began in the early Nineties writing for the Oldie, the Spectator and the Express on Sunday. He has now been writing for Country Life for nearly 20 years and Money Week for nearly ten. He is most famous, however, for his daily column in The Times. His clarity of style has seen him become universally acclaimed, and he is the author of Common Mistakes and How to Avoid Them, Need to know? Bridge, Bridge Secrets, What Should Have Happened, A Pack of Dos and Don’ts, Tips for Intermediates plus 20 books in his hugely popular Bridge Lesson Book series.

Andrew’s teaching is also legendary. Entertaining, simple, brilliant…his teaching has been described as this and much more over the years.

When not Bridging, Andrew loves to ride his mountain bike. He lives in North Barnes with his wife Lorna and two daughters, Hannah and Mimi.