Bridge 36 Stratagems

Author: Wu Xinhua
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Publish Date: 2005-01-01
Features: Bridge is a Western-style intellectual board game. Although some believe it originated from four-color paper cards in ancient Chinese courts and was brought back to Italy by Marco Polo, developing in Europe and America, modern contract bridge was standardized in the United States in the 1930s and then spread worldwide. Bridge, along with Go, Chinese chess, and international chess, belongs to the four major intellectual sports. It is full of strategic planning, calculation, information, logic, reasoning, and psychological offensive and defensive wisdom. The game is a battle of wits from start to finish, thrilling yet entertaining, and utterly captivating. This book combines Eastern and Western perspectives, ancient and modern ideas, using Western methods to serve Eastern purposes and vice versa. It categorizes bridge's offensive and defensive tactics into the 36 Stratagems, interpreting bridge techniques from a strategic perspective. At the same time, it uses examples of bridge techniques to showcase some highlights of Eastern ancient strategic wisdom, achieving mutual benefit from different angles.