2010 Revised Edition

1968 Dover Reprint

Bridge Squeezes Complete is a book on contract bridge

Contract bridge

Contract bridge, usually known simply as bridge, is a trick-taking card game using a standard deck of 52 playing cards played by four players in two competing partnerships with partners sitting opposite each other around a small table...

 written by Ann Arbor, Michigan-based mathematics professor Clyde E. Love

Clyde E. Love

Clyde E. Love was a contract bridge author and mathematics professor at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He is well-known in bridge circles for his 1959 book Bridge Squeezes Complete, one of the earliest efforts to codify then-existing squeeze play. Love established rules for recognizing...

, originally published in 1959. Written in a "dry, mathematical way", it is still considered one of the most important bridge books ever written and the squeeze vocabulary Love invented remains the basis for all discussions of squeezes

Squeeze play (bridge)

A squeeze play is a type of play late in the hand of contract bridge and other trick-taking game in which the play of a card forces an opponent to discard a card that gives up one or more tricks. The discarded card may be either a winner or a card needed to protect a winner...

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Reprints of the original text have been published in 1961 by Mayflower (London), in 1968 by Dover (New York) and in 1969 by Constable (London). A revised edition, edited by Linda Lee

Linda Lee (bridge)

Linda Lee is a Canadian bridge player and co-owner of Master Point Press, the world's leading publisher of books on bridge. After a lengthy absence from women's bridge, Linda won back-to-back Canadian Women's Teams titles in 2004 and 2005, and represented Canada in the Women's World Championship in...

 and Julian Pottage

Julian Pottage

Julian Pottage is a British contract bridge author, player and teacher, who studied mathematics at Trinity College Cambridge. He's also well-known as a collector of bridge problems, and writes a monthly problem column in Britain's Bridge Magazine...

, was published by Master Point Press

Master Point Press

Master Point Press is a Canadian book publishing company located in Toronto, Canada. It grew out of Canadian Master Point magazine , which was published by Ray and Linda Lee. The company began publishing books in 1994...

in 2010.

An interactive software presentation of the original text was developed by Lorne Russell in 2006. and translated into French by Theo VanDommelen in 2008..