| Foreword | p. VII |
| Foreword | p. VIII |
| Author's Preface | p. IX |
| A Day at the World Championship | p. 1 |
| Methods and Partnership | p. 7 |
| Artificiality and Naturalness in Bridge | p. 9 |
| Methods and Human Performance | p. 10 |
| Consistency | p. 12 |
| Completeness | p. 13 |
| Bidding to Tell and Bidding to Play | p. 14 |
| Limits to Accuracy | p. 15 |
| System Regulation and Good Citizenship | p. 16 |
| The Good Methods | p. 17 |
| Use of Space in Constructive Bidding | p. 19 |
| Partitioning | p. 21 |
| Opening the Bidding | p. 22 |
| Drawing the Boundaries | p. 23 |
| ColoursFirst | p. 25 |
| Colour Groups | p. 27 |
| Spades are Different | p. 29 |
| Relays | p. 33 |
| The History of Relay Bidding | p. 33 |
| Terminology | p. 34 |
| Showing Pattern | p. 35 |
| Relay System Design | p. 36 |
| How Effective is Relay Bidding? | p. 37 |
| Mainstream Relay Strategy | p. 40 |
| Human Performance | p. 40 |
| Algorithmic and Custom Replies | p. 40 |
| Optimizing the Relay Responses | p. 41 |
| Identifying Honors | p. 42 |
| Transfers | p. 47 |
| Passing the Declaration | p. 47 |
| Transfers to Increase Expressiveness | p. 49 |
| Second-Round Transfers after 1NT | p. 50 |
| Second-Round Transfers and Third-Suit Bidding | p. 51 |
| One-Level Transfers | p. 53 |
| Some Other Transfers | p. 54 |
| Transfers in Competition | p. 56 |
| Placing the Declaration after Intervention | p. 57 |
| Pass as a Transfer | p. 58 |
| Transfers after Intervention over a Strong Club | p. 58 |
| Dialogues: Natural and Artificial | p. 61 |
| Probing for Strain | p. 62 |
| Preserving Bidding Space | p. 63 |
| Fourth Suit Forcing | p. 65 |
| Raises and Use of Space | p. 67 |
| Slam Bidding | p. 69 |
| Definition of Sequences | p. 69 |
| ColoursFirst and Slams | p. 70 |
| Requirements for Slam | p. 73 |
| Trick-Taking Potential | p. 75 |
| Trump Strength | p. 76 |
| Checking on Aces | p. 77 |
| Control of All Suits | p. 78 |
| Being Antagonistic: Obstructing, Concealing, Deceiving, Confusing | p. 83 |
| Obstructing | p. 84 |
| Concealing | p. 89 |
| Deceiving | p. 93 |
| Confusing | p. 95 |
| Fighting Back - Countering Obstructive Methods | p. 97 |
| The Multi 2 [diamond] | p. 97 |
| The Noncommittal Double | p. 99 |
| A Transfer Preempt | p. 100 |
| Pursue or lgnore? | p. 102 |
| Hidden Costs of Conventional Interventions | p. 104 |
| Play Good Methods! | p. 106 |
| Defense to Multi 2 [diamond] | p. 109 |
| A Tour of the Systems World | p. 113 |
| Standard American | p. 115 |
| Four-Card Majors with Strong Notrump | p. 116 |
| Weak Notrump with Five-Card Majors | p. 116 |
| Acol | p. 119 |
| One-Club Systems | p. 119 |
| Multi Clubs: Polish, Swedish and From Elsewhere | p. 123 |
| Getting More Aggressive | p. 123 |
| Weak One-Bid Systems | p. 124 |
| MOSCITO | p. 125 |
| Little Major | p. 126 |
| Another Look at Coloursfirst | p. 129 |
| Over a Strong Club | p. 137 |
| A System | p. 139 |
| Opening Schedule | p. 140 |
| Responses to 1 [clubs] | p. 141 |
| Opener's Rebid after 1 [clubs]-1 [diamond] | p. 142 |
| Responder's Rebid after 1 [clubs]-1 [diamond]; 1 [hearts suit] | p. 142 |
| Opener's Rebid after 1 [clubs]-1 [hearts suit] | p. 143 |
| Responder's Rebid after 1 [clubs]-1 [hearts suit]; 1 [spades suit] | p. 143 |
| Responder's rebid After 1 [clubs]- 1 [diamond]; 1 [spades suit] | p. 143 |
| Developments after 1 [clubs]-1 [spades suit] | p. 145 |
| Responding with Diamonds | p. 145 |
| Afterword | p. 148 |
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