Point Count Bidding

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A SHORT HISTORY OF POINT COUNT BIDDING

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Up to the year 1949, contract bidding was based almost exclusively on valuing quick tricks. Countless bridge players (from the expert to the average commuting-train player) felt there must be some more accurate way of evaluating hands. A few adventurous souls tried various forms of Point Count an4;Iiked it, but it had never been given a thorough study.
Tlien, in 1946, Mr. Goren began an exhaustive study of the possibilities of Point Count Bidding. For two years he worked with a renowned actuary and with countless players in testing out the most precise possible method of evaluating bidding possibilities. The first edition of this book was brought out in 1949. It became an immediate success and was praised throughout the bridge-playing world. One enthusiast went so far as to say that Goren's Point Count Bidding vvas "even better than cheating."
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A SHORT HISTORY OF POINT COUNT BIDDING

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Up to the year 1949, contract bidding was based almost exclusively on valuing quick tricks. Countless bridge players (from the expert to the average commuting-train player) felt there must be some more accurate way of evaluating hands. A few adventurous souls tried various forms of Point Count an4;Iiked it, but it had never been given a thorough study.
Tlien, in 1946, Mr. Goren began an exhaustive study of the possibilities of Point Count Bidding. For two years he worked with a renowned actuary and with countless players in testing out the most precise possible method of evaluating bidding possibilities. The first edition of this book was brought out in 1949. It became an immediate success and was praised throughout the bridge-playing world. One enthusiast went so far as to say that Goren's Point Count Bidding vvas "even better than cheating."
The fact that Point Count Bidding became by far the most widely used -1 book since the heyday of Culbertson is not in itself so important as the renewed interest in the greatest card game in the world. Hundreds of thousands of card players switched from Canasta back to Contract Bridge. The interest in National Bridge Tournaments, which had begun to wither, waxed strong again. Today there are more tournaments with a far greater number of participants than at any time in the history of bridge.
As all bridge experts know, this interest is a result of not only the accuracy of Point Count Bidding, but also the fact that this metliod of evaluation makes Contract Bridge a much more fascinating game tlian - ^ ever before.
NOTE WELL: Point Count is not a system. As Mr. Goren describes it: "It is an approach; a simplified method for valuing one's hand. So you are not to feel that a new system is being foisted upon you. The bidding methods which I advocate, and which are currently employed by a majority of players both in this country and abroad, remain substanti-ally intact." ¦ ^li Vissza