Watson's classic book on the play of the hand at bridge
By: by Louis H. Watson
Contributors: Fry, Sam, Jr
Edition: New ed., enl. and modernized / by Sam Fry , Jr.
Publisher: Perennial Library
Published: 1958
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 475
ISBN-13: 9780064632096
Subjects: Contract bridge
Other titles: Bridge, play of the hand; Classic book on the play of the hand at bridge; Watson on the play of the hand at contract bridge
Description: The preeminent guide to bridge, by one of the foremost authorities on the game, covers all variations of play, both in attack and in defense.
Notes: Spine title: Bridge, play of the hand.

Published in 1934 under title: Watson on the play of the hand at contract bridge.
Table of contents: title: Fundamentals of Play --; title: The Power of Honors --; title: The Meaning of Rank --; title: The Developing Power of Honors --; title: Control --; title: The Positional Value of Honors --; title: How to Play Tenaces -- The Finesse --; title: Double and Combination Finesses --; title: Finessing Against Lower Honors Than the King --; title: Some Miscellaneous Examples --; title: When Not to Finesse --; title: Entries --; title: The Vital Meaning of Tenaces --; title: General Principles --; title: The Contract Is the Thing --; title: Establishing a Suit at No-Trump.; title: Establishing a Suit Before Eliminating Entries --; title: Choosing Between Two Establishable Suits --; title: Establishing a Suit at No-Trump (Continued) --; title: The Time Element in Establishing a Suit --; title: Establishing a Suit by Finessing --; title: A Second Look at the Double Finesse --; title: Reserving an Entry for a Second Finesse --; title: The Strategy of Control and the Hold-up --; title: When the Situation Does Not Call for the Hold-up --; title: Should Dummy Play High or Low Second Hand? --; title: Keeping a Weather Eve Open for Suit Control.; title: A Hold-up in a Suit With Two Stoppers --; title: Unblocking --; title: Unblocking by Leading a Singleton Honor --; title: Unblocking by Overtaking an Honor --; title: When Failure to Unblock Immediately Means Defeat --; title: Unblocking by Discarding --; title: Unblocking to Discover Hidden Entries --; title: Ducking --; title: Ducking Twice to Establish a Suit --; title: How to Decide Whether to Duck --; title: Ducking by Refusing a Finesse --; title: Ducking in Desperation --; title: A Matter of Judgment --; title: Trump Management at Suit Play --; title: When to Lead Trumps.; title: When Not to Lead Trumps Immediately --; title: Ruffing Power --; title: Struggling to Realize on a Short Suit --; title: Ruffing After First Leading Trumps --; title: Diverting to a New Type of Finesse --; title: Unblocking the Trump Suit --; title: Ruffing Power Is Confined to the Dummy --; title: Plays Postponing the Trump Lead --; title: Postponing the Trump Lead for a Specific Discard --; title: Another Way of Taking Discards Before Leading Trumps --; title: No-Trump Plays at Suit Contracts --; title: Again Establishing a Side Suit Before Leading Trumps.; title: Setting Up a Side Suit by Preserving Ruffing Power --; title: Establishing a Side Suit After Drawing Trumps --; title: Retaining Trump Entries Until a Side Suit Is Established by Ruffing --; title: Gaining Tricks by Refusing to Ruff --; title: Is Declarer or Dummy the Dominating Hand? --; title: Miscellaneous Trump Plays --; title: The Cross-Ruff --; title: High-Card Tricks in the "Other" Suit --; title: Sacrificing a Principle to Efficiency --; title: Another Exception to the Rule --; title: Playing a Hopeless Trump Contract.; title: Leading Trumps With a Weak Suit --; title: Elementary Defense Against No-Trump --; title: Opening Leads Against No-Trump --; title: The Honor-Sequence Length Lead --; title: The Plain Length Lead --; title: Leads From Ace-King Suits --; title: Continuation Honor Leads --; title: Leading the Ace --; title: Choosing Between Two Length Leads --; title: Short-Suit Sequence Leads --; title: Short-Suit Leads (Desperation) --; title: Leading Partner's Suit --; title: Choosing Between Your Own Suit and Partner's --; title: When Partner Has Not Bid --; title: When Partner Has Bid a Suit.; title: Third Hand Defense Against No-Trump --; title: The Rule of Eleven --; title: When Third Hand's "Highest" Is in Sequence With the Card Below It --; title: When Not to Play "Third Hand High" --; title: Elementary Defense After the First Trick --; title: Choosing the Card in Returning Partner's Suit --; title: An Exception --; title: Holding Up in Defensive Play --; title: Unblocking in Defensive Play --; title: Ducking in Defensive Play --; title: Defensive Discards --; title: The Echo and Its Uses --; title: When to Encourage and When to Discourage Partner.; title: Echoing With an Honor --; title: Echoing When Unable to Follow Suit --; title: Temporizing Discards --; title: Miscellaneous Discarding --; title: Third Hand's Play to Partner's Short-Suit Leads --; title: Defensive Plays by Second Hand --; title: Playing Defensively Before the Dummy --; title: Playing Defensively Before the Declarer --; title: Continuation Plays --; title: Applying Leads Through Strength and Up to Weakness --; title: Shifting to a Suit Other Than Partner's Lead --; title: Opening Leads Against a Suit Contract.; title: The Most Desirable Leads Against a Suit Contract --; title: Other Good Leads Against a Suit Contract --; title: Opening Leads Based on the Bidding --; title: Defensive Suit Play by Third Hand --; title: Discards (Signals) in Suit Defense --; title: Another Echo to Show a Short Suit --; title: Discouraging and Temporizing Discards in Suit Defense --; title: Third Hand Play to Short-Suit Leads --; title: The Policy of Suit Shifting --; title: Forcing the Declarer to Ruff --; title: Spotting a Danger Signal --; title: Not Forcing When It May Establish a Trick in Dummy.; title: Forcing the Dummy --; title: Preventing a Declarer From Discarding --; title: Trump Leads by the Defending Side --; title: A Similar but Simpler Situation --; title: Killing Ruffing Power With the Opening Lead --; title: Over-Ruffing by the Defending Side --; title: Leading a Low Card for Over-Ruffing --; title: Advanced Play and Expert Technique --; title: The Less Common Finessing Situations --; title: The Obligatory Finesse --; title: Finessing to Eliminate a Guess --; title: Again the Simple Finesse Is Not Enough --; title: The Backward Finesse --; title: Safety Plays.; title: Refusing a Trump Finesse --; title: Rendering an Adverse Ruff Useless --; title: Providing for the Worst Possible Distribution --; title: Providing Against a Special Kind of Adverse Distribution --; title: Refusing a Trump Finesse to Lose but One Trick --; title: A Safety Finesse --; title: A Safety Play Against the Queen --; title: Providing Against a 4-1 Break in Trumps --; title: Giving Up a Trick When It Is Seemingly Unnecessary --; title: Establishing a Tenace for the Sake of Safety --; title: Unblocking as a Safety Measure.; title: A Safety Play in a Side Suit --; title: The Acme of Foresight in a Safety Play --; title: Destroying an Entry Card to Play Safe --; title: End Plays --; title: A Simple End Play --; title: Throwing the Lead in the Suit Desired as the Return --; title: An Elimination End Play --; title: Choosing Between an End Play and a Finesse --; title: Making an End Play for an Extra Trick --; title: The End Play at a Suit Contract --; title: Another End Play When There Is a Trump Suit --; title: A Throw-in With Another Suit --; title: An End Play by Giving Up a Trick That Might Be Saved.; title: An Optimistic Try for an End Play --; title: Another End Play as the Only Chance --; title: A Brilliant End-Play "Coup" --; title: Another End-Play "Coup" --; title: An End Play in Trumps --; title: Defense Against End Plays --; title: Escaping an End Play by Unblocking --; title: Proper and Improper Defense Contrasted --; title: Protecting Partner From an End Play --; title: Superior Attack Met by Superior Defense --; title: Making the Declarer Guess --; title: Counting --; title: Counting Makes Possible a Double End Play --; title: Giving Up Losers to Get a Count.; title: A Simple and Common Method of Counting --; title: Using a Percentage Play When the Count Is Doubtful --; title: Placing Cards From the Bidding --; title: Counting by the Defending Side --; title: Mathematical Tables --; title: Coups --; title: The Bath Coup --; title: The Deschapelles Coup --; title: The Trump Coup --; title: A Double Simple Coup --; title: The Double Grand Coup --; title: Defense Against the Trump Coup --; title: An Unnecessary Finesse in Preparing for a Coup --; title: Trump Coups in General --; title: Squeeze Plays --; title: The Simple Squeeze End-Play Situation.; title: Working Toward the Squeeze --; title: The Backward Squeeze --; title: The Pseudo-Squeeze --; title: The Progressive Squeeze --; title: A Squeeze to Obtain a Count --; title: The Double Squeeze --; title: The Essentials of a Squeeze Situation --; title: The Vienna Coup --; title: The Vienna Coup Par Excellence --; title: Choosing Between a Squeeze and a Finesse --; title: Making an Adversary Squeeze His Partner --; title: Two Unusual Echoes --; title: The Trump Echo --; title: The No-Trump Echo --; title: Miscellaneous Advanced Plays --; title: Holding Up With King-Queen and With Queen-Jack.; title: An Ace-King Hold-Up to Avoid a Guess --; title: Establishing a Trick in a Short Suit First --; title: Leading into a Tenace -- The Time Element --; title: Leading into a Tenace to Establish a Suit --; title: The Time Element and the Opening Lead --; title: Unnecessarily Giving Up a Trump Trick --; title: Choosing Between Two Re-Entries --; title: Keeping the Dangerous Hand out of the Lead --; title: Trumping Your Partner's Ace --; title: "Double Dummy" Playing Problems --; title: Duplicate Strategy --; title: Psychological Strategy --; title: False-Carding.; title: Refusing to Play Third Hand High --; title: An Unusual Play --; title: Misleading the Opponents by Playing Normally --; title: Desperation Tactics by the Declarer --; title: A Desperation Surprise Lead --; title: A Deceptive and Unusual Lead --; title: Leading Against Slams --; title: Leading Against Doubled Slams --; title: Leading Away From an Ace --; title: Another Unconventional Opening Lead --; title: A Pair of Unusual Deceptive Plays --; title: Two Deceptive Ace Leads --; title: Planning the Play --; title: Plan of the Declarer --; title: At a No-Trump Contract.; title: At a Suit Contract --; title: Plan of the Defending Side --; title: The Opening Leader Against a No-Trump Contract --; title: The Opening Leader Against a Suit Contract --; title: Third Hand --; title: Some Modern Innovations --; title: Suit-Preference Signals When Ruffing --; title: Extensions of Suit-Preference Signals --; title: What Do You Lead from Three Card Suits? --; title: Some Loose Ends --; title: Delaying for a Squeeze --; title: An Extension of the No-Trump Echo.