[mycroft]

I learned from Reese, and his explanations as to "why" are worth the book. Yeah, the system is clunky and dated, but it's the best book I've yet read on how to "think limited" for a standard player. Effectively the same reason I recommend "5 Weeks" (which teaches you how to "think bridge")...but with the same problem (Reese expects you to know 4cM Acol; Sheinwold teaches you 4cM SA, and you won't find a partner).

I, too, like Berkowitz-Manley, and my current Precision partnership uses that as a kickoff. Rigal's book is excellent if you've played Precision for a year or two, but if you can handle the system-wonkery of even his basic section through sheer memorization (i.e. without being able to "think limited", therefore not being able to internalize why the continuations are just "right" and "natural"), let me know, I'll get you playing ASL (the game for people who *like* 400 pages of rules, with at least one exception to every rule).

Have not read Jannersten's, but everyone who talks about it speaks positively.

[Tola18]

PrecisionL, on Mar 1 2009, 11:02 AM, said:

My favorite ...

Playing pairs then Match Point Precision is a good read for strategy....

ah, that by Ron Andersen and CC Wei?

Yes, that one was nice, and useful to learn more bridge understanding also for me when I wasnt yet a strong club player.
Thus well and clearly written.
And of course, an adaption for the Match Point player yes....


Someone did mentioned Power Precision by Alan Sontag (partner Peter Weichsel).

A wonderful book on its own merites. You can have the system or live without it, but there is also a lot of text about the live of a bridge-pro and much practical wisdom to be learned.
A companion volume to Sontags The Bridge Bum, Sontag being a good text writer.
I did read this book mainly for its text content: one of the better bridge-books I did read.

Edit. If you are for real intressered in Power Precision, so there are also more recent write-ups.

[Hilver]

When I started playing Precision in 1986, I started reading C.C. Wei's The Precision Bidding System in Bridge (1969). It's an convincing book to make a start.
Then I read Charles Gorens Precision System of Contract Bridge Bidding (1971). It is that Old Red Book, an easy outline to understand the basics of Precision
Next I studied Match Point Precision (1975) by C.C. Wei and Ron Andersen. This book was followed by Power Precision by Alan Sontag.
From 1986 onwards tot 1993 I played Precison based on the ideas of Goren and a bit of Sontag.
In 2005 my current partner and I decided to play a Big Club. After an investigation of i.e. The Viking Precision Club written by Glenn Groetheim and several other relay systems such as Mosquito, we read The Revison Club by John Montgomery a very good write up of a Precisionlike biddingsystem. You can download this book for free at http://www.geocities...neill_2000/sys/. At least Foreword and Introduction of this book should be read by any serious bridgeplayer, no matter what level.
My pard and used the basics of The Revision Club to develop our own version of this bidding system.

Well, I wish to a lot of success in choosing a version of Precison. Just one more sentence, choose a system you feel comfortable with.

[cloa513]

I love Precision Bidding and Precision Play by Reese- I may not agree with all of it but it does point that HCP aren't everything.