Foreword by Larry Cohen
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Introduction
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15
Starting Off on the Right Foot
Chapter 1: Bridge Over Troubled Water
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Chapter 2: Step By Step
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Chapter 3: Getting Off Easy
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Chapter 4: What Do You Need to Open 2D?
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Re-evaluating After a Fit
Chapter 5: This Dummy Is No Dummy
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Chapter 6: Points Schmoints!
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Chapter 7: What’s the
Point?........................................... 85
Very Important Conventions
Chapter 8: Everything’s Under Control
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Chapter 9: Jacoby 2NT
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The Agony and the Ecstacy
Chapter 10: The Joy of Slams
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Chapter 11: The 10 Commandments
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Chapter 12: He Who Know, Goes
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Chapter 13: Know When to Say Yes
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Four Additional Important Conventions
Chapter 14: The Shorter the Better
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Chapter 15: A Whole New World
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Chapter 16: Blackwood Do’s and Dont’s
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Chapter 17: Roman Keycard Blackwood
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More Good Stuff
Conventions: Opinions, Suggestions,
Summaries............... 224
Glossary Plus
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232
Index
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235
Highly Recommended
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