Vol 2 includes 115 declarer plays is designed to raise you to the intermediate range for declarer play. This book, issued after vol 1, is better organized than vol 1. The hands in volume 2 were specifically written to improve your play after you have learned the basic and low intermediate plays in such books as Bird's, Seagram's and Smith's books such as "Planning the Play," "Bridge: 25 Ways to Take More tricks," "No Trump Contracts," "Bridge Technique Series," and "25 Bridge Myths Exposed." Also helpful prior to Vol 2 would be Kantar's books "Introduction to Declarer Play," and "Topics in Declarer Play" or "Monster Book of Basic Declarer Play" by Huggett and Cashmore.