I’ve gotten sort of fascinated by the card game bridge lately.  We learned a lot of card games when I was a kid—euchre, pinochle, rummy, canasta, Crazy Eights—but never bridge.  I’d looked at the rules in Hoyle a few times, but there’s so much more to bridge than the rules that that was a little like trying to learn how a car runs by studying a fender.  At the library sale last spring, I happened to pick up a couple of Charles Goren’s books on bridge from the early 1960s, when he was a champion of the game.  It turns out his methods are somewhat out of date now, but he did a good job of explaining the basics, and I was able to go from there to newer books that cover the more modern methods most partnerships use today.
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