Here is the first book on Contract Bridge for beginners which introduces them at once to the generally accepted Point Count method of bidding used by the experts. Written by the leading authority, the foremost teacher, and the most successful bridge player in the world, it will prove a boon to the novice and the average bridge player alike. Contract Bridge For Beginners is a book written by Charles Goren on the rules and basic strategies of contract bridge. First published by Simon & Schuster Inc. of New York in 1953 and by Eyre & Spottiswoode of London in 1959, each has been reprinted numerous times. The book contains an introduction to the then relatively new bidding system condensed from Goren's historically significant 1947 book Point Count Bidding in Contract Bridge. Contract Bridge for Beginners is a "competent but unimaginative text" with a bidding system that is "of little practical use today"having been superseded by more modern methods. Table of Contents 1. Preliminaries 2. The Mechanics of Bidding 3. How To Score 4. What Shall l Bid? 5. Responding to Opening Bids 6. Rebids by Opening Bidder 7. Defensive Bidding 8. Penalty Doubles 9. Slam Bidding 10. Getting To Game 11. Play of The Hand