On May 12, 7:56=A0pm, Alan Malloy <alan.NO.S...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> There've been several posts recently mentioning Kaplan-Sheinwold and
> Roth-Stone. It sounds as if KS might be a system that would fit my
> style, but I'm not at all familiar with it. Can anyone point me to a
> good reference for KS, or summarize the general philosophy? I'm not as
> interested in RS, but since they seem to be mentioned together fairly
> often perhaps I should take a look at both anyway.
>
> Obviously I have tried to look around on Google, but there seem to be
> varying descriptions: perhaps "snapshots" from what KS was at a
> particular time? I am hoping for something I could read and absorb, then
> sit down with some RGBer and say "let's play KS", and be mostly on the
> same wavelength.
>
> --
> Thanks,
> =A0 =A0 =A0Alan (San Jose, California, USA)
Lets start with Roth-Stone, Try 'Bridge is a Partne****p Game' from
granovetter books which is a reprint of the original.
As For KS there are 4 good sources.
1) 'Bridge Master, The Best of Edgar Kaplan' - This won't give you the
system but a good basis for the philosophy.
2) 'How To Play Winning Bridge' - This is the system as played by many
in the 60's (which include myself)
3) 'Competitive Bidding in Modern Bridge' - written by Kaplan it
expresses the defensive bidding concepts that go with KS
4) KSU Notes - This is the Updated version of KS and can be found on
the Bridge World web site under its editorial section. Written by
Kaplan but not sure when, this is what most people are refering to
when they talk about KS.
Now if someone could only get Adam Wildavsky to write a book called KS
in the 21st Century we could get the current version of it.
As for Roth Stone, don't know of any leading experts that play it
today (although much of RS is part of standard expert bidding).
Nick France
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