Search results for ""Author Mark Horton""
Master Point Press 45th World Bridge Team Championships 2021
The official book of the 2021 World Bridge Championships in Salsomaggiore, Italy, will be published to coincide with the start of the 2022 World Bridge Series in Wroclaw. The principal contributors are Brian Senior, Barry Rigel, Mark Horton, Marek Wojcicki, Daniel Gulyas and Ron Tacchi. The book is in full colour thoughout, featuring many photographs from the championships, sample hands and games, a full list of results and extensive coverage of the major championship events.
£22.50
Master Point Press 16th World Bridge Series
Master Point Press has been appointed the official distributor worldwide for the World Bridge Federation’s annual Bridge World Championship books. The official book of the 2022 World Bridge Series in Wroclaw, Poland, is published to coincide with the EBL’s Transnational Championships in Strasbourg in the summer of 2023. The principal contributors are David Bird, Barry Rigal, Mark Horton and Ron Tacchi. The book is in full colour thoughout its 392 pages, featuring many photographs from the 16th World Bridge Series championships, sample hands and games, a full list of results and extensive coverage of the major championship events.
£27.00
Master Point Press Close Encounters Book 2: Bridge's Greatest Matches (2003-2017)
Close Encounters is a two-book series that describes some of the most memorable bridge matches of the last fifty years. It features titanic struggles for World and National titles, involving the greatest players from Europe and North America. There are amazing comebacks, down-to-the-wire finishes, overtime victories, and an insight into how the game has changed over the last half century. Book 2 starts with Italy losing a world title in bizarre fashion on the final board, and ends with the USA’s nail-biting 2-IMP victory over France in Lyon in 2017.
£12.95
Master Point Press Misbid These Hands with Me
In 2007, Mark Horton wrote Misplay These Hands with Me, (Master Point Press, ISBN 9781897106280, now out of print) a deliberate homage to Reese's classic Play These Hands with Me. The difference was that the declarer in Horton's book always made an error, sometimes obvious, sometimes not so much. This successful book was the basis of a long-running column in the American Contract Bridge League’s Bridge Bulletin, a sequel in 2019: Misplay More Hands With Me (published by Honors ISBN 9781771402019), and last year, Misdefend These Hands with Me (Master Point Press, September 2021, ISBN 9781771400633). Now the same author turns to the topic of bidding, and once again gives the reader a chance to learn from someone else's mistakes. All the deals are taken from top-level play.
£15.95
Archaeopress Berkeley Castle Tales
Berkeley Castle Tales presents the outcomes of the 15-year-long University of Bristol excavations and landscape research at the Berkeley Castle estate in South Gloucestershire. The project, which in 2016 won the prestigious Current Archaeology award for the Archaeology Project of the Year, aimed at writing, through material culture and extensive archival and geophysical research, the narrative behind the construction of Berkeley Castle, the corresponding town, and the area of the Severn valley that overlooks the borders with Wales. By combining the results of archaeological fieldwork with information contained in the castle's impressive collection of 20,000 historical documents, the project adds greatly to our knowledge and understanding of the early medieval period and the subsequent changes in landscape and society that occurred with the coming of the Normans, with the erection of a castle on the former minster site. Throughout the publication the advances that the Berkeley Castle project offered to archaeological practice, to excavation and geophysics methodology, and to the community and public archaeology are evident, since the editors intend the volume to be a milestone not only for the study of a castle landscape but also for archaeological method and practice.
£38.00