If you have been playing bridge without counting the hand, perhaps for years, you are about to enter a new world. Thus David Bird, in the foreword to the original edition of this book. Thousands of readers learned to improve their play from the book version, and w it is available in an interactive CDROM, using Fred Gitelman's state-of-the-art Bridge Base engine. The reader can play through every example himself, as many times as he wants, bringing an at-the-table feel to the learning process.