This book is designed to highlight the advantages and disadvantages of the three major bidding systems: Standard American, 2/1, and Precision Club, as well as t

The Precision Diamond system provides a solution to the flaws in the Standard American bidding convention (SAYC). There are 6 notable features of my bidding sys

Economists often look at markets as given, and try to make predictions about who will do what and what will happen in these markets. Market design, by contrast,

An international team of experts covers the pros and cons of different auction formats and lessons learned in the field.

My goal in writing this book is to provide a careful organization of topics so that one may easily convert from any standard two club opening system and in part